Jim Brown
February 17, 1936 (89 years old) in St. Simons Island, Georgia, USA
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.
Known For
Credits
- 2023 · Bill Russell: Legend as Self - NFL Legend & Activist
- 2018 · Shut Up and Dribble as Self (archive footage)
- 2018 · United We Stand: The Ali Summit as self
- 2016 · O.J.: Made in America as Self (archive footage)
- 2016 · O.J.: Made in America as Self
- 2016 · Believeland as
- 2014 · I Am Ali as Self
- 2014 · Draft Day as Self
- 2009 · Crips and Bloods: Made in America as Himself
- 2009 · The Black Candle as Self
- 2004 · Macked, Hammered, Slaughtered and Shafted as Self
- 2004 · She Hate Me as Geronimo Armstrong
- 2003 · The Last Round: Chuvalo vs. Ali as Himself
- 2002 · BaadAsssss Cinema as Self
- 2000 · Soul Food as Willie White
- 1999 · Any Given Sunday as Montezuma Monroe
- 1998 · Small Soldiers as Butch Meathook (voice)
- 1998 · He Got Game as Spivey
- 1996 · Mars Attacks! as Byron Williams
- 1991 · Good Sports as Self
- 1990 · Hammer, Slammer, & Slade as Slammer
- 1989 · L.A. Heat as Captain
- 1988 · I'm Gonna Git You Sucka as Slammer
- 1987 · The Running Man as Fireball
- 1984 · Cover Up as
- 1984 · Highway to Heaven as Warren Brille
- 1983 · The A-Team as Steamroller
- 1982 · Knight Rider as C.J. Jackson
- 1982 · T. J. Hooker as Frank Barnett
- 1982 · T. J. Hooker as Detective Jim Cody
- 1979 · Playboy's Roller Disco & Pajama Party as
- 1979 · Pacific Inferno as Clyde
- 1977 · CHiPs as Parkdale H.S. Shop Teacher John Casey
- 1977 · CHiPs as Romo
- 1975 · Take a Hard Ride as Pike
- 1973 · Police Story as
- 1972 · Slaughter as Slaughter
- 1970 · The Flip Wilson Show as Self
- 1970 · The Grasshopper as Tommy Marcott
- 1970 · … tick… tick… tick… as Jimmy Price
- 1969 · 100 Rifles as Lydecker
- 1968 · The Beautiful Phyllis Diller Show as Self
- 1968 · The Dick Cavett Show as Self - Guest
- 1968 · Ice Station Zebra as Capt. Leslie Anders
- 1967 · The Dirty Dozen as Robert Jefferson
- 1964 · Rio Conchos as Franklyn
- 1962 · The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson as Self
- 1961 · The Mike Douglas Show as Self
- Future · New Jersey Turnpikes as
- 2022 · Say Hey, Willie Mays! as Self (archive video)
- 2020 · Ali's Comeback: The Untold Story as Self
- 2019 · The Black Godfather as Self
- 2019 · ReMastered: The Two Killings of Sam Cooke as Self
- 2017 · Foreman as Self
- 2016 · Hidden Colors 4: The Religion of White Supremacy as Himself
- 2016 · Jim Brown's Amer-I-Can Dream as
- 2013 · Glickman as Himself
- 2010 · Run Ricky Run as Self
- 2006 · Operation Dirty Dozen as Self
- 2006 · Armed and Deadly: The Making of 'The Dirty Dozen' as Self
- 2005 · Animal as Berwell
- 2004 · Sucker Free City as Don Strickland
- 2002 · On the Edge as Chad Grant
- 2002 · Jim Brown: All-American as Self (uncredited)
- 2001 · A Huey P. Newton Story as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
- 2000 · Ali-Frazier I: One Nation... Divisible as
- 1996 · Original Gangstas as Jake Trevor
- 1996 · The Journey of the African-American Athlete as Self
- 1995 · UFC 6: Clash of the Titans as
- 1994 · UFC 4: Revenge of the Warriors as
- 1992 · The Divine Enforcer as King
- 1991 · The Record Breakers as Self
- 1990 · Twisted Justice as Morris
- 1989 · Crack House as Steadman
- 1988 · Killing American Style as Lt. Sunset
- 1985 · Black Orient Express as
- 1984 · Black Hollywood as Self
- 1982 · One Down, Two to Go as J
- 1980 · Legends of the Fall as Self
- 1978 · Fingers as Dreems
- 1977 · Playboy's Playmate Party as
- 1976 · Kid Vengeance as Isaac
- 1974 · The Rumble in the Jungle: George Foreman vs. Muhammad Ali as Commentator
- 1974 · Three the Hard Way as Jimmy Lait
- 1973 · The Slams as Curtis X. Hook
- 1973 · I Escaped from Devil's Island as Le Bras
- 1973 · Slaughter's Big Rip-Off as Slaughter
- 1972 · Black Gunn as Gunn
- 1970 · El Condor as Luke
- 1969 · Riot as Cully Briston
- 1968 · The Split as McClain
- 1968 · Dark of the Sun as Ruffo
- 1968 · Kenner as
- 1967 · Tonite Let's All Make Love in London as Self
- 1967 · Lionpower from MGM as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
- 1966 · The Fortune Cookie as Running Back - Number 32 (archive footage) (uncredited)
- 1956 · The NFL on CBS as Self - Cleveland Browns Fullback