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Feature film — 2021

Walter: A Life in Football (2021)

10.00h 59mDocumentary

Documentary paying tribute to one of the most successful managers in the history of Scottish football, Walter Smith. A winner as manager for Rangers and Scotland, Walter Smith was a man whose character won respect across the hard tribal lines of our national game. Featuring rare archive, and told with interview contributions from the people who knew him best and who worked with him throughout his long and varied career, the programme explores the numerous successes at Rangers, his experiences as a manager when he headed south to Everton in the English Premiership, his leadership of the Scotland national men’s team and his sensational return to Rangers in 2007. Walter: A Life in Football follows the highs and lows of Smith’s career, exploring the characteristics that made players, fellow managers and supporters venerate him. He was genuinely loved and revered by many, including titans of the game such as Pep Guardiola and Sir Alex Ferguson.

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Director: Martin Conaghan

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Cast & crew

Walter Smith as Self

Walter Smith

Self

Graeme Souness as Self

Graeme Souness

Self

Wayne Rooney as Self

Wayne Rooney

Self

Alex Ferguson as Self

Alex Ferguson

Self

Hugh MacDonald as Self

Hugh MacDonald

Self

Roddy Forsyth as Self

Roddy Forsyth

Self

Richard Gough as Self

Richard Gough

Self

Maurice Malpas as Self

Maurice Malpas

Self

Stuart McCall as Self

Stuart McCall

Self

David Murray as Self

David Murray

Self

Jim McLean as Self (Archive Footage)

Jim McLean

Self (Archive Footage)

Chick Young as Self

Chick Young

Self

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