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Brown in 2014, photo by Prphotos
Birth Name: James Nathaniel Brown
Date of Birth: February 17, 1936
Place of Birth: St. Simons, Georgia, U.S.
Date of Death: May 18, 2023
Place of Death: Los Angeles, California, U.S.
Ethnicity: African-American
Jim Brown was an American professional football player, lacrosse player, sports analyst, actor, and civil rights activist. A fullback, he played for Syracuse in college, and for eight years for the Cleveland Browns of the National Football League (NFL), He is considered one of the greatest running backs, and overall players, in NFL history; he is the only player in league history to average over 100 rushing yards per game. Becoming an actor in the mid 1960s, his films include Rio Conchos , The Dirty Dozen , Dark of the Sun , Ice Station Zebra , The Split , Riot , 100 Rifles , Kenner , …tick…tick…tick… , El Condor , The Grasshopper , Slaughter , and its sequel; Black Gunn , The Slams , I Escaped from Devil’s Island , Three the Hard Way , Take a Hard Ride , Fingers , One Down, Two to Go ; The Running Man , I’m Gonna Git You Sucka , Crack House , Original Gangstas , Mars Attacks! , He Got Game , Small Soldiers , Any Given Sunday , She Hate Me , and Animal (2005). He founded the Black Economic Union to help promote economic opportunities for minority-owned businesses.
He was the son of Theresa and Swinton Brown, a professional boxer. He had three children with his former wife Sue Brown. DNA testing indicated that he had Nigerian ancestry.