Ned Dowd

Ned Dowd (born May 26, 1950) is an American film producer and former actor.

Hockey career After graduating from Bowdoin College in 1972, Dowd earned a master's degree at McGill University and played professional hockey. He was signed originally by the St. Louis Blues of the NHL and assigned to their minor league affiliate Johnstown Jets, for whom he played during the 1973–74 and 1974-75 seasons. He also played minor league hockey for the Kalamazoo Wings of the IHL during the 1974-75 season.

Film career The film Slap Shot (1977), written by his sister, Nancy Dowd, is based in part on his experiences playing in the minor leagues. Dowd served as technical advisor for the film and appeared in the film as notorious hockey player Ogie Ogelthorpe. His role as technical advisor included training star Paul Newman on how to play and coach ice hockey. He continued to occasionally act until 1996, but focused his career on becoming an assistant director and eventually a line producer. He had small parts in several films, the last being Bottle Rocket (1996), and has been a producer of such films as The Last of the Mohicans (1992), Shanghai Noon (2000), Wonder Boys (2000), and Apocalypto (2006).

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