Gene Washington (wide receiver, born 1947)

Gene Washington (born January 14, 1947) was an NFL player for many years who played for the San Francisco 49ers and Detroit Lions as a wide receiver. During college, he played football for Stanford University. He is a member of Delta Tau Delta International Fraternity, and was their first black member. He was the director of football operations for the NFL until 2009.^[1] He is also on the board of the National Park Foundation. He has two children, a daughter, Kelly Washington who currently attends UCLA and a son, Daniel Washington who attends Pepperdine University.

Living and playing in California gave Washington the opportunity to appear in a number of films and television series. He also served as a commentator for NBC's NFL coverage in the early 1980s and sports anchor at KABC-TV in the late 1980s.

He was the guest of US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice at a State Dinner for Elizabeth II^[2] and a State Dinner for Ghanaian President John Kufuor.^[3]

Film and television

• Banacek episode "Let's Hear It for a Living Legend" (1972) as Clay Mills
• The Mod Squad episode "The Connection" (1972)
• Black Gunn (1972) as Elmo
• The Black Six as Bubba Daniels
• Airport 1975 (1974) as himself, uncredited
• McMillan & Wife episode "Guilt by Association" as Luke Johnson
• Lady Cocoa (1975) as Doug

References

External links

• Gene Washington at the Internet Movie Database