# Death of a Champion > Mediated Wiki article. Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Death_of_a_Champion > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Death_of_a_Champion.md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_a_Champion > Source revision: 1339449101 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) 1939 film by Robert Florey This article needs more citations. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. Find sources: "Death of a Champion" – news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR (March 2019) (Learn how and when to remove this message) Death of a Champion Directed by Robert Florey Distributed by Paramount Pictures Release date August 24, 1939 (1939-08-24) Running time 67 minutes Country United States Language English ***Death of a Champion*** is a 1939 American film starring [Lynne Overman](/source/Lynne_Overman), [Virginia Dale](/source/Virginia_Dale), [Joseph Allen](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Joseph_Allen_(actor)&action=edit&redlink=1), and [Donald O'Connor](/source/Donald_O'Connor). ## Plot Detectives attempt to discover who killed a famous show dog. ## Cast - [Lynne Overman](/source/Lynne_Overman) as Oliver Quade - [Virginia Dale](/source/Virginia_Dale) as Patsy Doyle - Joseph Allen as Richie Oakes - [Donald O'Connor](/source/Donald_O'Connor) as Small Fry - [Susan Paley](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Susan_Paley&action=edit&redlink=1) as Lois Lanyard - [Harry Davenport](/source/Harry_Davenport_(actor)) as Guy Lanyard - [Robert Paige](/source/Robert_Paige) as Alec Temple - [David Clyde](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=David_Clyde_(actor)&action=edit&redlink=1) as Angus McTavish ## External links - [*Death of a Champion*](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0031221/) at [IMDb](/source/IMDb_(identifier)) v t e Films directed by Robert Florey One Hour of Love (1927) The Romantic Age (1927) Face Value (1927) The Life and Death of 9413: a Hollywood Extra (1928) The Hole in the Wall (1929) The Cocoanuts (1929) The Battle of Paris (1929) Skyscraper Symphony (1929) The Road Is Fine (1930) My Wife's Teacher (1930) Love Songs (1930) Black and White (1931) Murders in the Rue Morgue (1932) The Man Called Back (1932) Those We Love (1932) Girl Missing (1933) Ex-Lady (1933) The House on 56th Street (1933) Bedside (1934) Registered Nurse (1934) Smarty (1934) I Sell Anything (1934) I Am a Thief (1934) The Woman in Red (1935) The Florentine Dagger (1935) Going Highbrow (1935) Don't Bet on Blondes (1935) Ship Cafe (1935) The Payoff (1935) The Preview Murder Mystery (1936) Till We Meet Again (1936) Hollywood Boulevard (1936) Outcast (1937) King of Gamblers (1937) Mountain Music (1937) This Way Please (1937) Daughter of Shanghai (1937) Dangerous to Know (1938) King of Alcatraz (1938) Disbarred (1939) Hotel Imperial (1939) The Magnificent Fraud (1939) Death of a Champion (1939) Parole Fixer (1940) Women Without Names (1940) The Face Behind the Mask (1941) Meet Boston Blackie (1941) Two in a Taxi (1941) Dangerously They Live (1941) Lady Gangster (1942) The Desert Song (1943) Roger Touhy, Gangster (1944) Man from Frisco (1944) God Is My Co-Pilot (1945) Danger Signal (1945) The Beast with Five Fingers (1946) Tarzan and the Mermaids (1948) Rogues' Regiment (1948) Outpost in Morocco (1949) The Crooked Way (1949) The Vicious Years (1950) Johnny One-Eye (1950) Adventures of Captain Fabian (1951) This 1930s crime film-related article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by adding missing information. - [v](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:1930s-crime-film-stub) - [t](/source/Template_talk%3A1930s-crime-film-stub) - [e](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:EditPage/Template:1930s-crime-film-stub) --- Adapted from the Wikipedia article [Death of a Champion](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_a_Champion) by Wikipedia contributors ([contributor history](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_a_Champion?action=history)). Available under [Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). Changes may have been made.