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Jim Brown

Actor/sportsman

Born - 17 February 1936, St Simons Island, Georgia, USA
Died - 18 May 2023

Hard-bodied, tall, latterly moustachioed Afro-American superstar football player who turned to an acting career in his late twenties, and proved a solid hero (and sometimes supporting player) in mainstream action pictures. His later career was marred by several arrests, mainly after women accused him of violent behaviour. Once voted the greatest NFL player of the 20th century, Brown combined football and acting for a while before giving up the pro game: Rio Conchos (1964), The Dirty Dozen (1967), The Mercenaries (1968), The Split (1968), Ice Station Zebra (1968), Riot (1968), 100 Rifles (1969), ...tick...tick...tick (1969), The Grasshopper (1970), El Condor (1970), Kenner (1971, filmed earlier), Black Gunn (1972), Slaughter (1972), I Escaped from Devil's Island (1973), Slaughter's Big Rip-Off (1973), Three the Hard Way (1974), Take a Hard Ride (1975), Vengeance/Kid Vengeance (1976), Fingers (1977), Pacific Inferno (1978), One Down, Two to Go (1982), The Running Man (1987), I'm Gonna Git You, Sucka! (1988), Crack House (1989), Twisted Justice (1990), Divine Enforcer (1991), Posse (1993), Original Gangstas (1995), Mars Attacks! (1996), He Got Game (1998), Any Given Sunday (1999), On the Edge (2002), She Hate Me (2004), Animal (2005), Dream Street (2010) and Draft Day (2014), his last. Survived by his (second) wife Monique and five children.