Jim Brown
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
The Running Man
1987
as Fireball
Mars Attacks!
1996
as Byron Williams
Small Soldiers
1998
as Butch Meathook (voice)
The Dirty Dozen
1967
as Robert Jefferson
Any Given Sunday
1999
as Montezuma Monroe
100 Rifles
1969
as Lydecker
She Hate Me
2004
as Geronimo Armstrong
I'm Gonna Git You Sucka
1988
as Slammer
Animal
2005
as Berwell
O.J.: Made in America
2016
as Self
He Got Game
1998
as Spivey
Draft Day
2014
as Self
Ice Station Zebra
1968
as Capt. Leslie Anders
Dark of the Sun
1968
as Ruffo
Slaughter
1972
as Slaughter
I Am Ali
2014
as Self
The Fortune Cookie
1966
as Running Back - Number 32 (archive footage) (uncredited)
… tick… tick… tick…
1970
as Jimmy Price
Tonite Let's All Make Love in London
1967
as Self
Macked, Hammered, Slaughtered and Shafted
2004
as Self