Jim Brown
Born: 1936-02-17 in St. Simons Island, Georgia, USA
Died: 2023-05-18
Known For: Acting
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.
Filmography
2023
- Bill Russell: Legend as Self - NFL Legend & Activist
2022
- Say Hey, Willie Mays! as Self (archive video)
2020
- Ali's Comeback: The Untold Story as Self
2019
- The Black Godfather as Self
- ReMastered: The Two Killings of Sam Cooke as Self
2018
- Shut Up and Dribble as Self (archive footage)
- United We Stand: The Ali Summit as self
2017
- Foreman as Self
2016
- O.J.: Made in America as Self
- Believeland
- O.J.: Made in America as Self (archive footage)
- Hidden Colors 4: The Religion of White Supremacy as Himself
- Jim Brown's Amer-I-Can Dream
2013
- Glickman as Himself
2010
- Run Ricky Run as Self
2009
- The Black Candle as Self
- Crips and Bloods: Made in America as Himself
2006
2005
- Animal as Berwell
2004
- She Hate Me as Geronimo Armstrong
- Sucker Free City as Don Strickland
- Macked, Hammered, Slaughtered and Shafted as Self
2003
- The Last Round: Chuvalo vs. Ali as Himself
2002
- BaadAsssss Cinema as Self
- Jim Brown: All-American as Self (uncredited)
- On the Edge as Chad Grant
2001
- A Huey P. Newton Story as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
2000
- Soul Food as Willie White
- Ali-Frazier I: One Nation... Divisible
1999
- Any Given Sunday as Montezuma Monroe
1998
- Small Soldiers as Butch Meathook (voice)
- He Got Game as Spivey
1996
- Original Gangstas as Jake Trevor
- Mars Attacks! as Byron Williams
- The Journey of the African-American Athlete as Self
1992
- The Divine Enforcer as King
1991
- Good Sports as Self
- The Record Breakers as Self
1990
- Hammer, Slammer, & Slade as Slammer
- Twisted Justice as Morris
1989
- L.A. Heat as Captain
- Crack House as Steadman
1988
- Killing American Style as Lt. Sunset
- I'm Gonna Git You Sucka as Slammer
1987
- The Running Man as Fireball
1985
1984
- Highway to Heaven as Warren Brille
- Cover Up
- Black Hollywood as Self
1983
- The A-Team as Steamroller
- Richard Pryor: Here and Now ... (Executive Producer)
1982
- Knight Rider as C.J. Jackson
- T. J. Hooker as Frank Barnett
- One Down, Two to Go as J
1980
- Legends of the Fall as Self
1979
1978
- Fingers as Dreems
1977
- CHiPs as Romo
1976
- Kid Vengeance as Isaac
1975
- Take a Hard Ride as Pike
1974
- Three the Hard Way as Jimmy Lait
- The Rumble in the Jungle: George Foreman vs. Muhammad Ali as Commentator
1973
- The Slams as Curtis X. Hook
- Police Story
- I Escaped from Devil's Island as Le Bras
- Slaughter's Big Rip-Off as Slaughter
1972
- Slaughter as Slaughter
- Black Gunn as Gunn
1970
- El Condor as Luke
- The Grasshopper as Tommy Marcott
- The Flip Wilson Show as Self
- … tick… tick… tick… as Jimmy Price
1969
- 100 Rifles as Lydecker
- Riot as Cully Briston
1968
- The Dick Cavett Show as Self - Guest
- Kenner
- The Split as McClain
- Dark of the Sun as Ruffo
- Ice Station Zebra as Capt. Leslie Anders
- The Beautiful Phyllis Diller Show as Self
1967
- The Dirty Dozen as Robert Jefferson
- Tonite Let's All Make Love in London as Self
- Lionpower from MGM
1966
- The Fortune Cookie as Running Back - Number 32 (archive footage) (uncredited)
1964
- Rio Conchos as Sgt. Franklyn
1962
1961
- The Mike Douglas Show as Self
1956
- The NFL on CBS as Self - Cleveland Browns Fullback