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Jim Brown
Jim Brown – born 17 February 1936 – had a career as a professional American football player, which included a record-setting nine-year stretch as a running back for the NFL Cleveland Browns from 1957 to 1965. In 2002, he was named by The Sporting News as the greatest professional football player of all time.
Not content as a high achiever in football, Brown went into acting. His first appearance in front of the camera was in the 1964 film Rio Conchos, which was followed by a part in the 1967 war movie The Dirty Dozen. In 1969, he starred in 100 Rifles with Burt Reynolds and Raquel Welch, which was one of the first films to have an interracial love scene. Brown’s filmography has continued through the decades and he’s had more recent appearances in films such as Original Gangstas, On The Edge, Small Soldiers and Mars Attacks!.
In 2002, Spike Lee released Jim Brown: All-American; a documentary on Brown's life, on and off the field. The multi-talented star is still committed to his football roots by serving as an Executive Advisor to the Cleveland Browns
Filmography
Jim Brown - filmography
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Animal
on DVD
(2005)
Starring: Ving Rhames, Terrence Howard, Jim Brown
Director: David J. Burke
Certificate: 
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Animal is a violent gang member sentenced to prison, leaving his young son to grow up alone on the streets. While in prison, Animal meets an aging black revolutionary who changes the way Animal sees himself and his place in the world. When Animal returns home many years later, now a reformed man, ..read more »
 
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The Outsider - A Film About James Toback
(2005)
Starring: Woody Allen, Robert Downey Jr., Neve Campbell
Director: Nicholas Jarecki
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Documentary chronicling the turbulent production of writer/director James Toback's film WHEN WILL I BE LOVED. Woody Allen, Brooke Shields, Harvey Keitel, and boxer Mike Tyson are among the stars who speak about Toback's life, his chronic gambling addiction, and extraordinary career.
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from 28 members
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Peter, Paul And Mary - Carry It On - A M...
on DVD
(2003)
Starring: Paul And Mary Peter
Director: Jim Brown
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Tracklisting details include: 'It's Magic', 'Mary Had A Little Lamb', 'Lemon Tree', 'If I Had A Hammer', 'Jane, Jane', 'Blowin' In The Wind', 'Like The First Time', 'The Wedding Song', 'Leavin' On A Jet Plane', 'El Salvador', 'Puff The Magic Dragon', 'This Land Is Your Land', 'River Of Jordan', '..read more »
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On The Edge
on DVD
(2002)
Starring: Fred Williamson, Gary Busey, Bernie Casey
Director: Fred Williamson
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When a young, inner-city basketball star gets his best friend killed over a debt, tough guy Dakota Smith (Fred Williamson) steps in to help out--going up against big time pimp, Slim (Ice-T), and a vicious assassin, Felix (Gary Busey).
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from 60 members
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American Roots Music
(2 discs)
on DVD
(2001)
Starring: Mahalia Jackson, Kris Kristofferson, Jimmie Rodgers
Director: Jim Brown
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Originally broadcast for PBS, AMERICAN ROOTS MUSIC is a four-hour documentary about the evolution of the United States' unique musical heritage that is divided into four different parts. The program explores the myriad of different overlapping indigenous musical genres, including folk, gospel, ..read more »
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from 112 members
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I'm Gonna Git You Sucka
(1988)
Starring: Keenen Ivory Wayans, Bernie Casey, Antonio Fargas
Director: Keenen Ivory Wayans
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This "Blaxploitation" spoof sees a tough team of heroes set out to get Mr. Big, the man responsible for a friend's "OG" (over-gold) from wearing too many chains. Features cameos from such icons of black cinema as Isaac Hayes, Jim Brown and Antonio 'Huggy Bear' Fargas.
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from 831 members
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L.A. Heat
on DVD
(1988)
Starring: Lawrence-Hilton Jacobs, Jim Brown
Director: Joseph Merhi
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A street-wise detective is obsessed with bringing down the drug dealer who killed his partner. He soon finds his life in danger when he learns that the dealer is protected by the Mob...
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from 42 members
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Pacific Inferno
on DVD
(1979)
Starring: Jim Brown, Richard Jaeckel, Timothy Brown
Director: Rolf Bayer
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Starring Jim Brown (Dirty Dozen, Running Man, Any Given Sunday) as an American POW, Pacific Inferno is inspired by the true story of the recovery of $16million of silver pesos dumped into Manila Bay by the Allied Forces during WW2.
Abandoned to prevent its capture by the invading Japanese, Allied ..read more »
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from 17 members
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Fingers
(1978)
Starring: Harvey Keitel, Tisa Farrow, Jim Brown
Director: James Toback
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A dysfunctional young man is pulled between loyalties to his Italian mob-connected loan shark father and his mentally disturbed Jewish concert pianist mother.
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from 8 members
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Kid Vengeance
on DVD
(1977)
Starring: Lee Van Cleef, Jim Brown, Leif Garrett
Director: Joe Manduke
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Lee Van Cleef stars as McClain, a ruthless and savage outlaw who heads a posse of murderers and thieves. After witnessing the murder of his parents and kidnap of his sister by the criminal gang, a young boy (Leif Garrett) embarks on a personal vendetta to rescue his sister and avenge his parents ..read more »
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from 12 members
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Three The Hard Way
(1974)
Starring: Jim Brown, Fred Williamson, Jim Kelly
Director: Gordon Parks Jr.
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The story involves a white supremist plot to taint the United States water supply with a toxin that is only lethal to African Americans. The only obstacles that stand in the way of this dastardly plan are Jim Brown, Fred Williamson and Jim Kelly.
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from 5 members
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The Condor
(1970)
Starring: Lee Van Cleef, Jim Brown, Patrick O'Neal
Director: John Guillermin
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Luke, an escaped convict, and Jaroo, a loner gold prospector, team up with a band of Apache Indians in 19th century Mexico to capture a large, heavily armed fortress for the millions or billions of dollars in gold that are rumored to be stored within.
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from 2 members
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100 Rifles
on DVD
(1968)
Starring: Jim Brown, Raquel Welch, Burt Reynolds
Director: Tom Gries
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Lyedecker (Jim Brown) is the Arizona lawman who travels to Mexico in search of Yaqui Joe (Burt Reynolds). Joe has made an illegal withdrawal of $6,000 from the band in Phoenix to help finance his tribes's uprising against the Mexican government. Sarita (Raquel Welch) is the local woman who is ..read more »
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from 32 members
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The Dirty Dozen
on DVD
(1967)
Starring: Lee Marvin, Ernest Borgnine, Charles Bronson
Director: Robert Aldrich
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Twelve jailbirds will earn their freedom...if they survive a suicide mission against the Nazi brass. Tough-as-nails Lee Marvin leads a nothing-to-lose convict squad of Charles Bronson, Jim Brown, John Cassavetes, Trini Lopez, Telly Savalas, Donald Sutherland, Clint Walker and more in the all-time ..read more »
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