Name
Jim Brown
Known For
Acting
Birthday
1936-02-17
Deathday
2023-05-18 (87 years old)
Place of Birth
St. Simons Island, Georgia, USA
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.
Known For
6.545
By 2017, the global economy has collapsed and U.S. society has become a totalitarian polic...
6.435
A fleet of Martian spacecraft surrounds the world's major cities and all of humanity waits...
7.598
12 American military prisoners in World War II are ordered to infiltrate a well-guarded en...
6.827
A star quarterback gets knocked out of the game and an unknown third stringer is called in...
6.8
A basketball player's father must try to convince him to go to a college so he can get a s...
6.4
A top-secret Soviet spy satellite -- using stolen Western technology -- malfunctions and t...
5.1
Fired from his job, a former executive turns to impregnating wealthy lesbians for profit....
- 1996 Mars Attacks! as Byron Williams
- 1987 The Running Man as Fireball
- 1967 The Dirty Dozen as Robert Jefferson
- 2005 Animal as Berwell
- 2000 Ali-Frazier I: One Nation... Divisible
- 2004 She Hate Me as Geronimo Armstrong
- 1998 Small Soldiers as Butch Meathook (voice)
- 2020 Ali's Comeback: The Untold Story as Self
- 1968 The Split as McClain
- 2006 Armed and Deadly: The Making of 'The Dirty Dozen' as Self
- 1968 Dark of the Sun as Ruffo
- 1964 Rio Conchos as Franklyn
- 2002 Jim Brown: All-American as Self (uncredited)
- 1999 Any Given Sunday as Montezuma Monroe
- 1967 Tonite Let's All Make Love in London as Self
- 1996 Original Gangstas as Jake Trevor
- 1973 The Slams as Curtis X. Hook
- 1969 100 Rifles as Lydecker
- 1975 Take a Hard Ride as Pike
- 1974 Three the Hard Way as Jimmy Lait
- 1978 Fingers as Dreems
- 1988 I'm Gonna Git You Sucka as Slammer
- 1968 Ice Station Zebra as Capt. Leslie Anders
- 1970 The Grasshopper as Tommy Marcott
- 2002 BaadAsssss Cinema as Self
- 1989 Crack House as Steadman
- 1979 Pacific Inferno as Clyde
- 1973 I Escaped from Devil's Island as Le Bras
- 1973 Slaughter's Big Rip-Off as Slaughter
- 1972 Slaughter as Slaughter
- 1970 … tick… tick… tick… as Jimmy Price
- 1970 El Condor as Luke
- 1969 Riot as Cully Briston
- 2022 Say Hey, Willie Mays! as Self (archive video)
- 1976 Kid Vengeance as Isaac
- 1982 One Down, Two to Go as J
- 1972 Black Gunn as Gunn
- 1988 Killing American Style as Lt. Sunset
- 2016 O.J.: Made in America as Self
- 1974 The Rumble in the Jungle: George Foreman vs. Muhammad Ali as Commentator
- 2013 Glickman as Self
- 1989 L.A. Heat as Captain
- 2002 On the Edge as Chad Grant
- 1992 The Divine Enforcer as King
- 1968 Kenner
- 2014 I Am Ali as Self
- 2006 Operation Dirty Dozen as Self
- 1985 Black Orient Express
- 1966 The Fortune Cookie as Running Back - Number 32 (archive footage) (uncredited)
- 1990 Twisted Justice as Morris
- 2009 Crips and Bloods: Made in America as Himself
- 2016 Hidden Colors 4: The Religion of White Supremacy as Himself
- 2016 Believeland
- 2004 Sucker Free City as Don Strickland
- 1991 The Record Breakers as Self
- 1979 Playboy's Roller Disco & Pajama Party
- 2001 A Huey P. Newton Story as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
- 1990 Hammer, Slammer, & Slade as Slammer
- 2010 Run Ricky Run as Self
- 2003 The Last Round: Chuvalo vs. Ali as Himself
- 2019 ReMastered: The Two Killings of Sam Cooke as Self
- 2019 The Black Godfather as Self
- 2009 The Black Candle as Self
- 1998 He Got Game as Spivey
- 1999 New Jersey Turnpikes as Marcus Brown
- 2017 Foreman as Self
- 2004 Macked, Hammered, Slaughtered and Shafted as Self
- 2016 Jim Brown's Amer-I-Can Dream
- 1996 The Journey of the African-American Athlete as Self
- 2014 Draft Day as Self
- 1984 Black Hollywood as Self
- 1967 Lionpower from MGM as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
- 1980 Legends of the Fall as Self
- 2018 United We Stand: The Ali Summit as self
- 1994 UFC 4: Revenge of the Warriors
- 1995 UFC 6: Clash of the Titans
- 1977 Playboy's Playmate Party
- 1982 T. J. Hooker ( 1 episode ) as Frank Barnett
- 1983 The A-Team ( 1 episode ) as Steamroller
- 1982 Knight Rider ( 1 episode ) as C.J. Jackson
- 1984 Highway to Heaven ( 1 episode ) as Warren Brille
- 2000 Soul Food ( 4 episodes ) as Willie White
- 1984 Cover Up ( 1 episode )
- 1973 Police Story ( 1 episode )
- 1968 The Beautiful Phyllis Diller Show ( 1 episode ) as Self
- 2023 Bill Russell: Legend ( 1 episode ) as Self - NFL Legend & Activist
- 2018 Shut Up and Dribble ( 1 episode ) as Self (archive footage)
- 2016 O.J.: Made in America ( 1 episode ) as Self (archive footage)
- 1991 Good Sports ( 1 episode ) as Self
- 1961 The Mike Douglas Show ( 7 episodes ) as Self
- 1977 CHiPs ( 2 episodes ) as Romo
- 1977 CHiPs ( 1 episode ) as Parkdale H.S. Shop Teacher John Casey
- 1962 The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson ( 3 episodes ) as Self
- 1970 The Flip Wilson Show ( 1 episode ) as Self
- 1968 The Dick Cavett Show ( 3 episodes ) as Self - Guest
- 1956 The NFL on CBS ( 1 episode ) as Self - Cleveland Browns Fullback
- 1982 T. J. Hooker ( 1 episode ) as Detective Jim Cody
- 2021 NFL Icons ( 1 episode ) as Self
- 2015 The Late Show with Stephen Colbert ( 1 episode ) as Self
- 1996 Arli$$ ( 1 episode ) as Jim Brown
- 1997 Between Brothers ( 1 episode ) as Self
- 1956 The NFL on CBS ( 2 episodes ) as Self
