Jim Brown
Actor
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
as Fireball 1987
Small Soldiers
as Butch Meathook (voice) 1998
Any Given Sunday
as Montezuma Monroe 1999
The Dirty Dozen
as Robert Jefferson 1967
Draft Day
as Self 2014
He Got Game
as Spivey 1998
The Fortune Cookie
as Running Back - Number 32 (archive footage) (uncredited) 1966
O.J.: Made in America
as Self 2016
I'm Gonna Git You Sucka
as Slammer 1988
Ice Station Zebra
as Capt. Leslie Anders 1968
She Hate Me
as Geronimo Armstrong 2004
100 Rifles
as Lydecker 1969
I Am Ali
as Self 2014
Dark of the Sun
as Ruffo 1968
Fingers
as Dreems 1978
Rio Conchos
as Franklyn 1964