Jim Brown

Known for: Acting
Born: February 17, 1936, St. Simons Island, Georgia, USA
Died: May 18, 2023
Movies: 78

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.

Best-Known Movies

6.4

Mars Attacks!

1996

6.5

The Running Man

1987

6.6

Small Soldiers

1998

6.8

Any Given Sunday

1999

7.6

The Dirty Dozen

1967

6.7

Draft Day

2014

6.8

He Got Game

1998

7.2

The Fortune Cookie

1966

8.4

O.J.: Made in America

2016

6.4

I'm Gonna Git You Sucka

1988

Filmography

2022	Say Hey, Willie Mays!	Self (archive video)
2020	Ali's Comeback: The Untold Story	Self
2019	The Black Godfather	Self
2019	ReMastered: The Two Killings of Sam Cooke	Self
2018	United We Stand: The Ali Summit	self
2017	Foreman	Self
2016	Hidden Colors 4: The Religion of White Supremacy	Himself
2016	O.J.: Made in America	Self
2016	Believeland
2016	Jim Brown's Amer-I-Can Dream
2014	I Am Ali	Self
2014	Draft Day	Self
2013	Glickman	Self
2010	Run Ricky Run	Self
2009	Crips and Bloods: Made in America	Himself
2009	The Black Candle	Self
2006	Armed and Deadly: The Making of 'The Dirty Dozen'	Self
2006	Operation Dirty Dozen	Self
2005	Animal	Berwell
2004	Macked, Hammered, Slaughtered and Shafted	Self
2004	Sucker Free City	Don Strickland
2004	She Hate Me	Geronimo Armstrong
2003	The Last Round: Chuvalo vs. Ali	Himself
2002	On the Edge	Chad Grant
2002	BaadAsssss Cinema	Self
2002	Jim Brown: All-American	Self (uncredited)
2001	A Huey P. Newton Story	Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
2000	Ali-Frazier I: One Nation... Divisible
1999	Any Given Sunday	Montezuma Monroe
1999	New Jersey Turnpikes	Marcus Brown
1998	Small Soldiers	Butch Meathook (voice)
1998	He Got Game	Spivey
1996	Mars Attacks!	Byron Williams
1996	Original Gangstas	Jake Trevor
1996	The Journey of the African-American Athlete	Self
1995	UFC 6: Clash of the Titans
1994	UFC 4: Revenge of the Warriors
1992	The Divine Enforcer	King
1991	The Record Breakers	Self
1990	Hammer, Slammer, & Slade	Slammer
1990	Twisted Justice	Morris
1989	Crack House	Steadman
1989	L.A. Heat	Captain
1988	Killing American Style	Lt. Sunset
1988	I'm Gonna Git You Sucka	Slammer
1987	The Running Man	Fireball
1985	Black Orient Express
1984	Black Hollywood	Self
1982	One Down, Two to Go	J
1980	Legends of the Fall	Self
1979	Playboy's Roller Disco & Pajama Party
1979	Pacific Inferno	Clyde
1978	Fingers	Dreems
1977	Playboy's Playmate Party
1976	Kid Vengeance	Isaac
1975	Take a Hard Ride	Pike
1974	The Rumble in the Jungle: George Foreman vs. Muhammad Ali	Commentator
1974	Three the Hard Way	Jimmy Lait
1973	The Slams	Curtis X. Hook
1973	I Escaped from Devil's Island	Le Bras
1973	Slaughter's Big Rip-Off	Slaughter
1972	Black Gunn	Gunn
1972	Slaughter	Slaughter
1970	El Condor	Luke
1970	The Grasshopper	Tommy Marcott
1970	… tick… tick… tick…	Jimmy Price
1969	100 Rifles	Lydecker
1969	Riot	Cully Briston
1968	The Split	McClain
1968	Ice Station Zebra	Capt. Leslie Anders
1968	Dark of the Sun	Ruffo
1968	Kenner
1967	Tonite Let's All Make Love in London	Self
1967	The Dirty Dozen	Robert Jefferson
1967	Lionpower from MGM	Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
1966	The Fortune Cookie	Running Back - Number 32 (archive footage) (uncredited)
1964	Rio Conchos	Franklyn

Directing, Writing & Producing

1989

We Shall Overcome

Producer

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