Editing Muhammad Ali (section)

===Acting===
Ali had a cameo role in the 1962 film version of ''[[Requiem for a Heavyweight]]'', and during his exile from boxing, he starred in the short-lived 1969 Broadway musical, ''Buck White''.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Langer |first1=Adam |title=Muhammad Ali in a Broadway Musical? It Happened |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/28/theater/muhammad-ali-broadway-buck-white.html |access-date=December 6, 2020 |work=[[The New York Times]] |date=November 28, 2019 |archive-date=July 25, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200725024740/https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/28/theater/muhammad-ali-broadway-buck-white.html |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.ibdb.com/broadway-production/buck-white-3305 |title=''Buck White'' |publisher=[[IBDB]] |access-date=May 9, 2022 |archive-date=May 9, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220509051557/https://www.ibdb.com/broadway-production/buck-white-3305 |url-status=live }}</ref> He also appeared in the documentary film ''[[Black Rodeo]]'' (1972) riding both a horse and a bull.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Cartwright |first=Keith Ryan |date=February 3, 2020 |title=When black cowboys paraded through Harlem with Muhammad Ali |url=https://andscape.com/features/black-rodeo-cowboys-paraded-through-harlem-with-muhammad-ali/ |access-date=June 2, 2024 |website=Andscape |language=en-US |archive-date=February 22, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240222082345/https://andscape.com/features/black-rodeo-cowboys-paraded-through-harlem-with-muhammad-ali/ |url-status=live }}</ref>

His autobiography ''[[The Greatest: My Own Story]]'', written with [[Richard Durham]], was published in 1975.<ref name=cp>{{cite book |last1=Ali |first1=Muhammad |last2=Durham |first2=Richard |title=The Greatest: My Own Story |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=EkfhAAAAMAAJ |year=1975 |publisher=Random House |location=New York |isbn=978-0-394-46268-4 |oclc=1622063 |access-date=July 24, 2023 |archive-date=October 31, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231031224607/https://books.google.com/books?id=EkfhAAAAMAAJ |url-status=live }}</ref> In 1977 the book was adapted into a film called ''[[The Greatest (1977 film)|The Greatest]]'', in which Ali played himself and [[Ernest Borgnine]] played [[Angelo Dundee]].

The film ''[[Freedom Road]]'', made in 1978, features Ali in a rare acting role as Gideon Jackson, a former slave and Union soldier in 1870s Virginia, who gets elected to the U.S. Senate.