Jim
Brown

Biography

A former NFL professional football player who has also made his mark as an actor, Jim Brown is best known for his exceptional and record-setting nine-year career as a running back for the NFL Cleveland Browns from 1957 to 1965 and has been thought of by some to be one of the greatest American football players of all time.

His first major film role cam in 1967 when he appeared as Robert Jefferson in The Dirty Dozen and would go on to star in films such as 100 Rifles (1969), ...tick... tick... tick... (1970), and Ice Station Zebra (1968). He would go on to make several notable screen accomplishments, becoming not only the first African American action star in cinema, but he was also the first African American to appear in an interracial love scene in the film 100 Rifles with Raquel Welch.

He would later go on to appear in the films The Running Man (1987), Mars Attacks! (1996), and Any Given Sunday (1999), as well as providing the voice of Butch Meathook in the partially animated film Small Soldiers (1998).