Many sources name Kobe Bryant as the first former professional athlete to win an Oscar when he took home the statuette (with co-producer Glen Keane) for Best Animated Short for Dear Basketball in 2018, but that answer is off by over 80 years.

Victor McLaglen had a professional boxing record of 16-8-1, as well as a a six-round exhibition bout against legendary heavyweight champion Jack Johnson at the Vancouver Athletic Club on March 10, 1909. McLaglen finished out his career in 1920 and made his movie debut that same year in The Call of the Road. He rose to stardom playing Captain Flagg in Raoul Walsh's 1926 silent film of the stage hit What Price Glory? and won the Oscar for Best Actor of 1935 in John Ford's The Informer.

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