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Jim Brown

Acting · Born February 17, 1936 · St. Simons Island, Georgia, USA

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 with Jim Brown

• Mars Attacks! (1996) — Byron Williams
• The Running Man (1987) — Fireball
• Small Soldiers (1998) — Butch Meathook (voice)
• The Dirty Dozen (1967) — Robert Jefferson
• Any Given Sunday (1999) — Montezuma Monroe
• Draft Day (2014) — Self
• He Got Game (1998) — Spivey
• I'm Gonna Git You Sucka (1988) — Slammer
• Ice Station Zebra (1968) — Capt. Leslie Anders
• 100 Rifles (1969) — Lydecker
• The Fortune Cookie (1966) — Running Back - Number 32 (archive footage) (uncredited)
• O.J.: Made in America (2016) — Self