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Jim Brown
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.
As actor
Say Hey, Willie Mays!
Ali's Comeback: The Untold Story
ReMastered: The Two Killings of Sam Cooke
The Black Godfather
United We Stand: The Ali Summit
Foreman
O.J.: Made in America
Hidden Colors 4: The Religion of White Supremacy
Believeland
Jim Brown's Amer-I-Can Dream
I Am Ali
Draft Day
Glickman
Run Ricky Run
Crips and Bloods: Made in America
The Black Candle
Armed and Deadly: The Making of 'The Dirty Dozen'
Operation Dirty Dozen
Animal
She Hate Me
Sucker Free City
Macked, Hammered, Slaughtered and Shafted
The Last Round: Chuvalo vs. Ali
Jim Brown: All-American
BaadAsssss Cinema
On the Edge
A Huey P. Newton Story
Ali-Frazier I: One Nation... Divisible
Any Given Sunday
New Jersey Turnpikes