Jim Brown
Born in St. Simons Island, Georgia, USA — Feb 17 1936• Died May 18 2023
Biography
Jim Brown (February 17, 1936 – May 18, 2023) was an American professional football player and actor. He is best known for his exceptional and record-setting nine-year career as a running back in the NFL with Cleveland Browns from 1957 to 1965. In 2002, he was named by Sporting News as the greatest professional football player ever. He is considered to be one of the greatest American professional athletes ever. He also starred in several films, including He’s Got Game and Any Given Sunday.
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Jim Brown's Credits
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Knight Rider
C.J. Jackson
The A-Team
Steamroller
T. J. Hooker
Frank Barnett
Arli$$
Jim Brown
Highway to Heaven
Warren Brille
Police Story
CHiPs
Romo
The Flip Wilson Show
Self
Cover Up
Soul Food
Willie White
The Running Man
Fireball
Shut Up and Dribble
Self (archive footage)
Mars Attacks!
Byron Williams
The Dirty Dozen
Robert Jefferson
Between Brothers
Self
Good Sports
Self
Small Soldiers
Butch Meathook (voice)
She Hate Me
Geronimo Armstrong
Bill Russell: Legend
Self - NFL Legend & Activist
I'm Gonna Git You Sucka
Slammer
O.J.: Made in America
Self (archive footage)
Any Given Sunday
Montezuma Monroe
The Beautiful Phyllis Diller Show
Self
Ice Station Zebra
Capt. Leslie Anders
NFL Icons
Self
He Got Game
Spivey
The Split
McClain
Draft Day
Self
O.J.: Made in America
Self
I Am Ali
Self
100 Rifles
Lydecker
Animal
Berwell
Rio Conchos
Franklyn
Slaughter
Slaughter
Dark of the Sun
Ruffo
El Condor
Luke
Black Gunn
Gunn
Fingers
Dreems
Riot
Cully Briston
Hammer, Slammer, & Slade
Slammer
The Grasshopper
Tommy Marcott
Lionpower from MGM
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Three the Hard Way
Jimmy Lait
Original Gangstas
Jake Trevor
The Fortune Cookie
Running Back - Number 32 (archive footage) (uncredited)
Sucker Free City
Don Strickland
Crack House
Steadman
New Jersey Turnpikes
The NFL on CBS
Self - Cleveland Browns Fullback
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Jimmy Price
I Escaped from Devil's Island
Le Bras
Take a Hard Ride
Pike
L.A. Heat
Captain
Tonite Let's All Make Love in London
Self
BaadAsssss Cinema
Self
Kid Vengeance
Isaac
Operation Dirty Dozen
Self
The Slams
Curtis X. Hook
Macked, Hammered, Slaughtered and Shafted
Self
Jim Brown: All-American
Self (uncredited)
Slaughter's Big Rip-Off
Slaughter
The Black Godfather
Self
Kenner
Crips and Bloods: Made in America
Himself
Armed and Deadly: The Making of 'The Dirty Dozen'
Self
One Down, Two to Go
J
A Huey P. Newton Story
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
ReMastered: The Two Killings of Sam Cooke
Self
Hidden Colors 4: The Religion of White Supremacy
Himself
Twisted Justice
Morris
The Last Round: Chuvalo vs. Ali
Himself
Say Hey, Willie Mays!
Self (archive video)
Black Hollywood
Self
The Journey of the African-American Athlete
Self
Foreman
Self
Glickman
Self
The Divine Enforcer
King
Playboy's Roller Disco & Pajama Party
Ali-Frazier I: One Nation... Divisible
On the Edge
Chad Grant
Pacific Inferno
Clyde
The Rumble in the Jungle: George Foreman vs. Muhammad Ali
Commentator
The Black Candle
Self
Richard Pryor: Here and Now
Production
Playboy's Playmate Party
United We Stand: The Ali Summit
self
Killing American Style
Lt. Sunset
The Record Breakers
Self
Believeland
UFC 6: Clash of the Titans
Run Ricky Run
Self
Legends of the Fall
Self
UFC 4: Revenge of the Warriors
Ali's Comeback: The Untold Story
Self
Jim Brown's Amer-I-Can Dream
We Shall Overcome
Production
Black Orient Express