and International Boxing Organization Intercontinental Heavyweight titles before retiring. James J. Corbett is not related to fellow boxing Hall of Famer Young Corbett II. Cultural references In 1892, the Spalding company, under their own publishing company Spalding Athletic Library, issued “Life and Battles of James J. Corbett”, Volume 1, Number 1. The book includes stories of Corbett's past opponents. The editor Richard K Fox refers to Corbett as the California Wonder and a professor (of boxing). In 1894, Corbett authored his autobiography under the title The Roar of the Crowd; the story was serialized by The Saturday Evening Post in six weekly installments during October/November 1894. The following year, G.P. Putnam's Sons published it in book form, marketing it as the "True Tale of the Rise and Fall of a Champion." In 1942, the story was made into a Hollywood motion picture titled Gentleman Jim, starring Errol Flynn as Corbett. In 1966, the actor James Davidson played Corbett in the episode "The Fight San Francisco Never Forgot" of the syndicated western television series Death Valley Days, hosted by Ronald W. Reagan. In the story line, Walter Watson (John McLiam) becomes boxing instructor at the Olympic Club in San Francisco. In this capacity, he fights off a local bully and begins training Corbett to face him in a match vital to the future of Watson and the club. Corbett is mentioned in a Season 2 episode of The Simpsons, "Homer vs. Lisa and the 8th Commandment", when Mr. Burns remembers paying a nickel to attend a fight between Corbett and "an Eskimo fellow." Gentleman Jim Corbett is shown as a character in the 1980 western movie Tom Horn starring Steve McQueen in which Tom Horn offends Jim Corbett who then gives Tom Horn a beating. Professional boxing record Films Thomas Edison wrote "I remember Jim Corbett very well, for he was a very important part of the first motion picture that we made for public exhibition. Yes, he can justly claim the distinction of being the oldest living film star, and I extend him my hearty congratulations," from a letter in 1930. Corbett and Courtney Before the Kinetograph (1894, Short) Actor's Fund Field Day (1910, Short) – Himself How Championships Are Won—And Lost (1910, Documentary short) – Himself The Man from the Golden West (1913) – Gentleman Jim The Burglar and the Lady (1914, based on the play of the same