Jim Brown
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as Byron Williams Mars Attacks! 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
Mars Attacks!
as Byron Williams
The Running Man
as Fireball
Small Soldiers
as Butch Meathook (voice)
Any Given Sunday
as Montezuma Monroe
The Dirty Dozen
as Robert Jefferson
Draft Day
as Self
He Got Game
as Spivey
The Fortune Cookie
as Running Back - Number 32 (archive footage) (uncredited)
O.J.: Made in America
as Self
I'm Gonna Git You Sucka
as Slammer
Ice Station Zebra
as Capt. Leslie Anders
She Hate Me
as Geronimo Armstrong
100 Rifles
as Lydecker
I Am Ali
as Self
Dark of the Sun
as Ruffo
Fingers
as Dreems
Rio Conchos
as Franklyn
Animal
as Berwell
Take a Hard Ride
as Pike