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Willie Brown
ActorBorn March 20, 1934 (90 years)
Retired American politician Willie Lewis Brown Jr. served as mayor of San Francisco from 1996 to 2004, the first African American to hold that office. His flamboyant style made him so well known that when an actor playing a party politician in 1990's The Godfather Part III did not understand director Francis Ford Coppola's instruction to model his character after Brown, Coppola fired the actor and hired Brown himself to play the role. Brown later appeared in 2000's Just One Night as a judge. He also played himself in two Disney films, George of the Jungle and The Princess Diaries, and in the 2003 film Hulk as the mayor of San Francisco. He appeared as himself, alongside Geraldo Rivera, in an episode of Nash Bridges. He also made a cameo appearance in the 1984 Jefferson Starship music video "Layin' It on the Line" (depicting a futuristic 1988 presidential campaign).
Filmography
| 2023 | Outlaw Johnny Black · as Chuch Goer / Staff |
| 2022 | I'm Charlie Walker · as Taxi Cab Driver |
| 2008 | Pig Hunt · as Willie |
| 2000 | Just One Night · as Judge |
| 1999 | ABC 2000: The Millennium · as Cast |
| 1997 | George of the Jungle · as Mayor Willie L. Brown Jr. |
| 1996 | Suddenly Susan (TV Series) · as Mayor Willie Brown |
| 1992 | The Godfather Trilogy: 1901-1980 · as Party Politician |
| 1991 | Where Evil Lives · as Hippy Boy |
| 1990 | The Godfather Part III · as Party Politician |