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Mickey O’Keefe. Police Sgt. Mickey O’Keefe laughed when actor Mark Wahlberg and director David O. Russell asked him to play himself in the critically acclaimed and Academy Award nominated film The Fighter. The real life mentor and trainer of both “Irish” Micky Ward and his brother Dickie Ecklund, O’Keefe agreed to audition after ...
Feb 20, 2011 · O'Keefe was tapped by Wahlberg and the film's director, David O. Russell, to play himself in the biopic about working-class hero Micky Ward, who fought his way up from the streets of Lowell to...
Mickey O'Keefe. Actor: The Fighter. Mickey O'Keefe was born and raised in Lowell, Massachusetts, the youngest child in a family of Irish Catholic descent. He served on Lowell's police force for over 30 years (retiring as a sergeant), served in the military before that, and was a Golden Gloves champion in his younger days.
Highlights include video of the controversial Dickie Eklund vs. Sugar Ray Leonard knockdown (trip) and Micky Ward interviews. Discover The Fighter true story behind the movie. Meet the real Micky Ward, boxer Dickie Eklund, Charlene Fleming and mother Alice Ward from the film.
Mickey O'Keefe. Actor: The Fighter. Mickey O'Keefe was born and raised in Lowell, Massachusetts, the youngest child in a family of Irish Catholic descent. He served on Lowell's police force for over 30 years (retiring as a sergeant), served in the military before that, and was a Golden Gloves champion in his younger days.
Micky Ward (left) and Mickey O'Keefe. O'Keefe's Irish-American pedigree reinforces a sense of Irish omnipresence in the boxing world, as well as in law enforcement, two defining professions for the Irish in exile.
Sep 17, 2023 · Mickey O’Keefe was in Ward’s corner when he won the World Boxing Union’s Intercontinental light welterweight title against Louis Veader in Boston in 1996. It’s a championship that Ward said...
