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  1. 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 Wahlberg told him that as a cop you act every day on the job.

  2. 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.

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    • Bedford, Massachusetts, USA
  3. Feb 20, 2011 · Julia Malakie. LOWELL, Mass. — Becoming a celebrity overnight is a funny thing. Especially for a regular Joe like Mickey O'Keefe, a veteran Lowell police officer who never acted a lick in his ...

  4. Sep 15, 2022 · Mickey O'Keefe was a boxer who inspired the character of Dicky Eklund in the movie The Fighter. Learn how he sold his life rights, worked with Mark Wahlberg, and faced addiction and crime.

  5. Sep 17, 2023 · Lowell Police Sgt. and former trainer of Micky Ward, Mickey O'Keefe, gets a kiss from Ward at the Dec. 9, 2010 pre-screening party for fans and friends going to an early screening of "The Fighter."

  6. 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.

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  8. Michael O'Keefe. Michael O'Keefe (born Raymond Peter O'Keefe Jr.; April 24, 1955) is an American actor, known for his roles as Danny Noonan in Caddyshack, Ben Meechum in The Great Santini, for which he received a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor, and Darryl Palmer in the Neil Simon movie The Slugger's Wife.

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