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====Television and movie work==== *''[[The Fish That Saved Pittsburgh]]'': Played a basketball announcer in a basketball version of [[The Bad News Bears]] though the players in the story were adults. The movie provided an acting turn for [[Julius Erving]]. * ''[[Fletch (film)|Fletch]]'': Plays himself interviewing [[Kareem Abdul-Jabbar]] and while describing Fletch ([[Chevy Chase]]) in a dream points out "(Fletch) is actually 6'5" but with the afro 6'9", pretty good dribbler......this gritty kid from the streets of Harlem really creates excitement. $4 million a year, that's true, but he earns every nickel of it. Look how he shakes off four, five players with ease!" *''[[Garfield and Friends]]'': Voiced an announcer in the episode Basket Brawl (season 2 episode 14). The episode involved Jon, Nermal, and Odie trying to get picnic food past Garfield. Hearn voiced a mouse announcer named "Chick Mouse" while the game's audience was mice. *''[[Gilligan's Island]]'' **''"Splashdown"'': The episode involved Hearn as a news commentator as an American manned spacecraft was scheduled to splashdown near the island. **''"It's a Bird, It's a Plane"'': Hearn's voice is heard on the radio in this episode. *''[[The Harlem Globetrotters on Gilligan's Island]]'': He was the play-by-play for the game between the Globetrotters and the robot team they were playing. *''[[The Love Bug]]'': Played a reporter during and following a race. *''[[Matlock (1986 TV series)|Matlock]]'': Played a professional wrestling announcer in the second-season episode ''"The Annihilator"''. *''[[Rugrats]]'': Hearn voiced himself in the episode "Touchdown Tommy" while the [[Dallas Cowboys]] and [[Houston Oilers]] contest the Ultra Bowl. *''[[Homer Defined|The Simpsons]]'': Voiced himself in the episode "[[Homer Defined]]" while calling a Lakers game. In the game, [[Magic Johnson]] pulls a "Homer" when he slips on the basketball court yet the ball ends up going into the basket. *''[[My Three Sons]]'': Appeared as the announcer of a model airplane flight competition in the 1962 episode ''"Air Derby"''. *''[[The Fugitive (1963 TV series)|The Fugitive]]'': Season one, episode 30 Appeared as TV Newscaster *''[[Heaven Can Wait (1978 film)|Heaven Can Wait]]'': Uncredited role as a radio announcer for the Rams-Steelers game. *''[[Sport Goofy in Soccermania]]'': Voiced the announcer of the soccer game.
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