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Jim Brown

Actor, Producer
Born February 17, 1936Died May 18, 2023 (87 years)
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.

Movies & Shows on Plex

  • Mars Attacks!
  • The Fortune Cookie
  • Animal
  • One Down, Two to go
  • Vengeance
  • Twisted Justice

Known For

  • The Running Man
  • Ice Station Zebra
  • Three the Hard Way
  • She Hate Me
  • The Split
  • Take a Hard Ride
  • Slaughter
  • Tick, Tick, Tick
  • Original Gangstas
  • Fingers
  • Black Gunn
  • Dark of the Sun
  • Richard Pryor... Here and Now
  • El Condor
  • Riot
  • Animal
  • Slaughter's Big Rip-Off
  • I Escaped from Devil's Island
  • Crack House
  • Killing American Style
  • One Down, Two to go
  • The Slams
  • Vengeance
  • The Grasshopper

Jim Brown Filmography

2016
2005
Animal · as Berwell
2004
Sucker Free City · as Don Strickland
2004
She Hate Me · as Geronimo Armstrong
2002
On the Edge · as Chad Grant
2000
2000
Soul Food (TV Series) · as Willie White
1999
Any Given Sunday · as Montezuma Monroe
1999
1998
Small Soldiers · as Butch Meathook (voice)
1998
He Got Game · as Spivey
1996
Mars Attacks! · as Byron Williams
1996
Original Gangstas · as Jake Trevor
1992
1990
1990
1989
Crack House · as Steadman
1989
L.A. Heat · as Captain
1988
Killing American Style · as Lt. Sunset
1988
1987
The Running Man · as Fireball
1984
Cover Up (TV Series)
1984
Highway to Heaven (TV Series) · as Warren Brille
1983
The A-Team (TV Series) · as Steamroller
1982
1982
Knight Rider (TV Series) · as C.j. Jackson
1982
T.J. Hooker (TV Series) · as Frank Barnett
1979
Pacific Inferno · as Clyde
1978
Fingers · as Dreems
1977
CHiPs (TV Series) · as Romo
1976
Vengeance · as Isaac
1975
Take a Hard Ride · as Pike
1974
The Rumble in the Jungle · as Commentator
1974
Three the Hard Way · as Jimmy Lait
1973
1973
The Slams · as Curtis X. Hook
1973
Slaughter's Big Rip-Off · as Slaughter
1973
Police Story (TV Series)
1972
Black Gunn · as Gunn
1972
Slaughter · as Slaughter
1970
The Grasshopper · as Tommy Marcott
1970
El Condor · as Luke
1970
Tick, Tick, Tick · as Jimmy Price
1969
Riot · as Cully Briston
1969
100 Rifles · as Lydecker
1968
The Split · as Mcclain
1968
Ice Station Zebra · as Capt. Leslie Anders
1968
Dark of the Sun · as Ruffo
1968
1967
The Dirty Dozen · as Robert Jefferson
1966
The Fortune Cookie · as Running Back - Number 32 (archive Footage) (uncredited)
1964
Rio Conchos · as Franklyn

2023
Bill Russell: Legend (TV Series) · as Self - Nfl Legend & Activist
2022
Say Hey, Willie Mays! · as Self (archive Video)
2020
2019
2019
2018
Shut Up and Dribble (TV Series) · as Self (archive Footage)
2017
Foreman · as Self
2016
O.J.: Made in America (TV Series) · as Self (archive Footage)
2016
2016
2014
I Am Ali · as Self
2014
2014
Draft Day · as Self
2013
Glickman · as Himself
2010
Run Ricky Run · as Self
2008
2008
2006
2003
2002
2002
Jim Brown: All American · as Self (uncredited)
2001
A Huey P. Newton Story · as Self (archive Footage) (uncredited)
1991
Good Sports (TV Series) · as Self
1984
Black Hollywood · as Self
1970
The Flip Wilson Show (TV Series) · as Self
1968
The Dick Cavett Show (TV Series) · as Self - Guest
1967
1962
1961
The Mike Douglas Show (TV Series) · as Self
1956
The NFL on CBS (TV Series) · as Self - Cleveland Browns Fullback

1983
Richard Pryor... Here and Now · as Executive Producer

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