Requiem for a Heavyweight was a teleplay written by Rod Serling and produced for the live television show Playhouse 90 on 11 October 1956. Six years later, it was adapted as a 1962 feature film starring Anthony Quinn, Jackie Gleason and Mickey Rooney.The teleplay won a Peabody Award, the first given to an individual script, and helped establish Serling's reputation as a television and screen play-write of the highest order.
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