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

• 2016Believeland
• 2016Jim Brown's Amer-I-Can Dream
• 2005Animal — Berwell
• 2004She Hate Me — Geronimo Armstrong
• 2004Sucker Free City — Don Strickland
• 2002On the Edge — Chad Grant
• 2000Ali-Frazier I: One Nation... Divisible
• Soul Food — Willie White
• 1999Any Given Sunday — Montezuma Monroe
• 1999New Jersey Turnpikes — Marcus Brown
• 1998He Got Game — Spivey
• 1998Small Soldiers — Butch Meathook (voice)
• Arli$$ — Jim Brown
• 1996Mars Attacks! — Byron Williams
• 1996Original Gangstas — Jake Trevor
• 1995UFC 6: Clash of the Titans
• 1994UFC 4: Revenge of the Warriors
• 1992The Divine Enforcer — King
• 1990Hammer, Slammer, & Slade — Slammer
• 1990Twisted Justice — Morris
• 1989Crack House — Steadman
• 1989L.A. Heat — Captain
• 1989We Shall Overcome — Producer
• 1988I'm Gonna Git You Sucka — Slammer
• 1988Killing American Style — Lt. Sunset
• 1987The Running Man — Fireball
• 1985Black Orient Express
• Cover Up
• Highway to Heaven — Warren Brille
• 1983Richard Pryor: Here and Now — Executive Producer
• The A-Team — Steamroller
• Knight Rider — C.J. Jackson
• 1982One Down, Two to Go — J
• T. J. Hooker — Frank Barnett, Detective Jim Cody
• 1979Pacific Inferno — Clyde
• 1979Playboy's Roller Disco & Pajama Party
• 1978Fingers — Dreems
• CHiPs — Parkdale H.S. Shop Teacher John Casey, Romo
• 1977Playboy's Playmate Party
• 1976Kid Vengeance — Isaac
• 1975Take a Hard Ride — Pike
• 1974The Rumble in the Jungle: George Foreman vs. Muhammad Ali — Commentator
• 1974Three the Hard Way — Jimmy Lait
• 1973I Escaped from Devil's Island — Le Bras
• Police Story
• 1973Slaughter's Big Rip-Off — Slaughter
• 1973The Slams — Curtis X. Hook
• 1972Black Gunn — Gunn
• 1972Slaughter — Slaughter
• 1970El Condor — Luke
• 1970The Grasshopper — Tommy Marcott
• 1970… tick… tick… tick… — Jimmy Price
• 1969100 Rifles — Lydecker
• 1969Riot — Cully Briston
• 1968Dark of the Sun — Ruffo
• 1968Ice Station Zebra — Capt. Leslie Anders
• 1968Kenner
• 1968The Split — McClain
• 1967The Dirty Dozen — Robert Jefferson
• 1966The Fortune Cookie — Running Back - Number 32 (archive footage) (uncredited)
• 1964Rio Conchos — Franklyn

Appearances as themselves (40)

• Bill Russell: Legend — Self - NFL Legend & Activist
• 2022Say Hey, Willie Mays! — Self (archive video)
• NFL Icons — Self
• 2020Ali's Comeback: The Untold Story — Self
• 2019ReMastered: The Two Killings of Sam Cooke — Self
• 2019The Black Godfather — Self
• Shut Up and Dribble — Self (archive footage)
• 2018United We Stand: The Ali Summit — self
• 2017Foreman — Self
• 2016Hidden Colors 4: The Religion of White Supremacy — Himself
• 2016O.J.: Made in America — Self
• O.J.: Made in America — Self (archive footage)
• The Late Show with Stephen Colbert — Self
• 2014Draft Day — Self
• 2014I Am Ali — Self
• 2013Glickman — Self
• 2010Run Ricky Run — Self
• 2009Crips and Bloods: Made in America — Himself
• 2009The Black Candle — Self
• 2006Armed and Deadly: The Making of 'The Dirty Dozen' — Self
• 2006Operation Dirty Dozen — Self
• 2004Macked, Hammered, Slaughtered and Shafted — Self
• 2003The Last Round: Chuvalo vs. Ali — Himself
• 2002BaadAsssss Cinema — Self
• 2002Jim Brown: All-American — Self (uncredited)
• 2001A Huey P. Newton Story — Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
• Between Brothers — Self
• 1996The Journey of the African-American Athlete — Self
• Good Sports — Self
• 1991The Record Breakers — Self
• 1984Black Hollywood — Self
• 1980Legends of the Fall — Self
• The Flip Wilson Show — Self
• The Beautiful Phyllis Diller Show — Self
• The Dick Cavett Show — Self - Guest
• 1967Lionpower from MGM — Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
• 1967Tonite Let's All Make Love in London — Self
• The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson — Self
• The Mike Douglas Show — Self
• The NFL on CBS — Self - Cleveland Browns Fullback