Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid the Sundance Kid's character before. Other actors considered for the role of Sundance were Steve McQueen and Warren Beatty, who both turned it down, with Beatty claiming that the film was too similar to "Bonnie and Clyde". According to Goldman, McQueen and Newman both read the scripts at the same time and agreed to do the film. McQueen eventually backed out of the film due to disagreements with Newman. The two actors would eventually team up in the 1974 disaster film "The Towering Inferno". The world premiere of the movie was in September 1969, at the Roger Sherman Theater, in
O. J. Simpson the television mini-series "Roots" (1977), and the dramatic motion pictures "The Klansman" (1974), "The Towering Inferno" (1974), "The Cassandra Crossing" (1976) and "Capricorn One" (1978). In 1979, he started his own film production company, Orenthal Productions, which dealt mostly in made-for-TV fare such as the family-oriented "Goldie and the Boxer" films with Melissa Michaelsen (1979 and 1981), and "Cocaine and Blue Eyes" (1983), the pilot for a proposed detective series on NBC. He also starred in the comedic "Back to the Beach" (1987) and "The Naked Gun" trilogy (1988, 1991, 1994). Besides his acting career, Simpson worked as a commentator