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Jim Brown

Actor

Jim Brown

Born February 17, 1936 in St. Simons Island, Georgia, USADied May 18, 202343 films

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.

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The Dirty Dozen posterFirst watchThe Dirty Dozen19677.6as Robert Jefferson12 American military prisoners in World War II are ordered to infiltrate a well-guarded enemy château and kill the Nazi officers vacationing there.View film

Essential films

Ranked by acclaim and reach
Mars Attacks! poster6.4Mars Attacks!1996The Running Man poster6.5The Running Man1987Any Given Sunday poster6.8Any Given Sunday1999Small Soldiers poster6.6Small Soldiers1998He Got Game poster6.8He Got Game1998I'm Gonna Git You Sucka poster6.4I'm Gonna Git You Sucka1988Ice Station Zebra poster6.4Ice Station Zebra1968Dark of the Sun poster6.5Dark of the Sun1968

Filmography

43 films as actor
  1. 2005AnimalBerwell
  2. 2004Sucker Free CityDon Strickland
  3. 2004She Hate MeGeronimo Armstrong
  4. 2002On the EdgeChad Grant
  5. 1999Any Given SundayMontezuma Monroe
  6. 1998Small SoldiersButch Meathook (voice)
  7. 1998He Got GameSpivey
  8. 1996Mars Attacks!Byron Williams
  9. 1996Original GangstasJake Trevor
  10. 1995UFC 6: Clash of the Titans
  11. 1994UFC 4: Revenge of the Warriors
  12. 1992The Divine EnforcerKing
  13. 1990Hammer, Slammer, & SladeSlammer
  14. 1990Twisted JusticeMorris
  15. 1989Crack HouseSteadman
  16. 1989L.A. HeatCaptain
  17. 1988Killing American StyleLt. Sunset
  18. 1988I'm Gonna Git You SuckaSlammer
  19. 1987The Running ManFireball
  20. 1985Black Orient Express
  21. 1982One Down, Two to GoJ
  22. 1979Playboy's Roller Disco & Pajama Party
  23. 1979Pacific InfernoClyde
  24. 1978FingersDreems
  25. 1976Kid VengeanceIsaac
  26. 1975Take a Hard RidePike
  27. 1974Three the Hard WayJimmy Lait
  28. 1973The SlamsCurtis X. Hook
  29. 1973I Escaped from Devil's IslandLe Bras
  30. 1973Slaughter's Big Rip-OffSlaughter
  31. 1972Black GunnGunn
  32. 1972SlaughterSlaughter
  33. 1970El CondorLuke
  34. 1970The GrasshopperTommy Marcott
  35. 1970… tick… tick… tick…Jimmy Price
  36. 1969100 RiflesLydecker
  37. 1969RiotCully Briston
  38. 1968The SplitMcClain
  39. 1968Ice Station ZebraCapt. Leslie Anders
  40. 1968Dark of the SunRuffo
  41. 1968Kenner
  42. 1967The Dirty DozenRobert Jefferson
  43. 1964Rio ConchosFranklyn