Clift (From Here to Eternity), James Dean (Rebel Without a Cause), Kirk Douglas (Champion), Errol Flynn (Gentleman Jim), James Earl Jones (The Great White Hope), Burt Lancaster (Jim Thorpe – All-American), Anthony Quinn (Requiem for a Heavyweight), and Elvis Presley (Kid Galahad). Honors Callahan was inducted into the World Boxing Hall of Fame posthumously in 1989. Personal life In 1934, Callahan married Leonora Summers (née Lillian Hill, 1897–1976), a former silent film actress, in Los Angeles. That same year, he converted to Catholicism. Their son, Michael Anthony Callahan, was ordained as a Jesuit priest in 1967. He died in June 1986 following a long illness and was buried in Holy Cross Cemetery in Culver City, California. Partial Filmography See also List of light welterweight boxing champions List of select Jewish boxers References External links Mushy Callahan at Cyber Boxing Zone |- 1904 births 1986 deaths 20th-century American Jews American male boxers boxers from New York City Jewish American boxers light-welterweight boxers world boxing champions world light-welterweight boxing champions