Jim BrownFilmography

The Outsider

Actors: James Toback

Synopsis: Filmmaker Nicholas Jarecki offers a celluloid portrait of a cinematic mastermind at work in this documentary shot over an eight month period and following director James Toback through each phase of production of his 2004 thriller When Will I be Loved. From pre-production to final cut, Jarecki Read More

She Hate Me

Actors: Anthony Mackie, Kerry Washington

Synopsis: Directed by Spike Lee, She Hate Me follows John Henry "Jack" Armstrong (Anthony Mackie), who is fired from a posh job in biotechnology after informing the proper authorities of some sketchy business dealings from within the company. Unemployed and desperate for some quick cash, Jack accepts a Read More

Animal

Actors: Terrence Howard, Chazz Palminteri, Ving Rhames, Jim Brown, Paula Jai Parker

Synopsis: A notorious gangster must reconcile his past in order to make a future for his criminally-minded son in this crime-drama starring football superstar Jim Brown and Pulp Fiction star Ving Rhames. James "Animal" Allen (Rhames) reveled in a life of violent crime until he was placed behind bars. Upon Read More

O.J.: A Study in Black and White

Actors: Liev Schreiber, Jim Brown, Jerry Burgdoerfer, Dr. Mary Jo Kane

Synopsis: This 60-minute cable TV documentary places the sensational murder trial of ex-football star O.J. Simpson in context with American race relations of the 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s. Deliberately courting controversy, the filmmakers opine that, up until his arrest on suspicion of murder in 1994, Simpson Read More

Jim Brown: All-American

Actors: Jim Brown, Dr. Walter Beach, Hank Aaron, Bernie Casey, Johnnie L. Cochran Jr.

Synopsis: Spike Lee's documentary on the football star, movie actor, and social activist is a no-frills examination of a man who has rarely been out of the public spotlight for over 45 years. Jim Brown talks about the various phases of his life, from his boyhood in the all-black community of St. Simons Read More

Any Given Sunday

Actors: Al Pacino, Cameron Diaz, Dennis Quaid, James Woods, Jamie Foxx

Synopsis: Oliver Stone takes on professional football, a sport whose grace and delicacy are a good match for his filmmaking style. Tony D'Amato (Al Pacino), the head coach of the Miami Sharks, won back-to-back championships four years ago. But new team owner Christina Pagniacci (Cameron Diaz) has little Read More

Small Soldiers

Actors: Kirsten Dunst, Gregory Smith, Jay Mohr, Phil Hartman, Kevin Dunn

Synopsis: Joe Dante directed this satirical action-comedy about talking tech toys accidentally juiced-up with military microchips. After the defense industry firm Globotech takes over a small toy company, Heartland Play Systems' CEO Gil Mars (Denis Leary) gives the green light to develop a new line of Read More

He Got Game

Actors: Denzel Washington, Ray Allen, Milla Jovovich, Rosario Dawson, Hill Harper

Synopsis: Denzel Washington and writer-director Spike Lee team for the third time with this contemporary basketball drama focusing on a promising athlete, the son of a convict-father. Jake Shuttlesworth (Denzel Washington) has been in prison for six years when tough prison-warden Wyatt (Ned Beatty) tells Read More

Original Gangstas

Actors: Fred Williamson, Jim Brown, Pam Grier, Paul Winfield, Richard Roundtree

Synopsis: Larry Cohen, who directed a number of interesting and subversive exploitation films in the 1970s and 1980s, including Black Caesar and Hell Up in Harlem, reunited some of the biggest stars of the blaxploitation era for this tough-minded action opus. John Bookman (Fred Williamson) is a successful Read More

Mars Attacks!

Actors: Jack Nicholson, Glenn Close, Annette Bening, Pierce Brosnan, Danny DeVito, Jim Brown

Synopsis: This quirky science fiction comedy is a characteristic feature by iconoclastic director Tim Burton, known to moviegoers for Beetlejuice, Edward Scissorhands, and The Nightmare Before Christmas. The storyline affectionately harkens back to the deadpan sincerity of such '50s and '60s Read More

The Divine Enforcer

Synopsis: A mysterious priest proves himself a master of martial arts in this LA-set chop-socky adventure. As the story begins, he is a gentle fellow who attempts to fight the bad-guys with peace and love. When that fails, he resorts to stronger methods and nunchakus whirl, feet and fists fly, and criminals Read More

Healthy Wealthy and Wise [TV Series]

Actors: Brent Meyer, Jim Brown

Synopsis: This Australian magazine show was dedicated to offering advice on health, finances, and creature comforts. Regular contributors included best-selling author/entrepreneur Peter Wherrett, the series' "resident auto specialist." Among the series' hosts were Michael Dickinson, Brent Meyer, and Jim Read More

Crack House

Actors: Jim Brown, Anthony Geary, Richard Roundtree, Cheryl Kay, Gregg Thomsen

Synopsis: A drama involving the world of inner-city drug dealing, Crack House concerns two students (Gregg Gomez Thomsen, Cheryl Kay) trying to attend school while living with the pressures of ghetto life. ~ John Bush, All Movie Guide Read More

Twisted Justice

Actors: David Heavener, Erik Estrada, Karen Black, Shannon Tweed, Jim Brown

Synopsis: In this futuristic actioner set in the year 2020, guns have become so illegal that even cops cannot use them to stop criminals. But officer James Tucker is a maverick and carries with him an enormous homemade revolver, which he uses to blow away bad-guys and psychotic criminals. His newest Read More

L.A. Vice

Actors: William Smith

Synopsis: This actioner is the sequel to the film LA Heat and chronicles the further exploits of Chance, a street-wise gumshoe who is now working for the vice squad. He and his captain work together to solve a series of killings. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

I'm Gonna Git You Sucka!

Actors: Keenen Ivory Wayans, Bernie Casey, Antonio Fargas, Steve James, Isaac Hayes

Synopsis: Keenen Ivory Wayans wrote, directed, and starred in this hilarious parody of blaxploitation films in the comedy I'm Gonna Git You Sucka. Jack Spade (Wayans) returns home from a hitch in the army to find his brother Junebug has died from an overdose of gold chains, leaving his widow Cheryl (Dawnn Lewis Read More

L.A. Heat

Actors: Jim Brown, Kevin Benton, Pat Johnson

Synopsis: Ex-football great Jim Brown co-stars in this blood-filled police actioner with former Welcome Back Kotter "Sweathog"Lawrence-Hilton Jacobs. In the story, Jon Chance (Jacobs) is a police detective with a very active fantasy life, who must be spurred into action by his captain (Brown). The case at Read More

The Running Man

Actors: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Maria Conchita Alonso, Richard Dawson, Yaphet Kotto, Jim Brown

Synopsis: Directed by former Starsky and Hutch TV star Paul Michael Glaser, this post-apocalyptic science fiction yarn satirized American entertainment, mocking pro wrestling, game shows, and law-and-order reality programming. Arnold Schwarzenegger stars as Ben Richards, a cop in the totalitarian America of Read More

Abducted

Actors: Dan Haggerty, Roberta Weiss, Lawrence King-Phillips

Synopsis: Dan Haggerty, TV's Grizzly Adams, has a more complex role than usual in Abducted. Haggerty plays the father of a mixed-up mountain boy (Lawrence King-Phillips) who has kidnapped a pretty college student (Roberta Weiss). Though Haggerty tries to explain why his sons behaves the way he does, the Read More

The A-Team: Quarterback Sneak

Synopsis: Now forced to follow the orders of General Stockwell (Robert Vaughn) if they hope to receive pardons, the A-Team is dispatched behind the Iron Curtain to rescue defecting chemical-warfare scientist Dr. Strasser (Bo Brudin). To cover their tracks, the Team organizes a football game in East Germany Read More

Pacific Inferno

Crew: Producer

Actors: Jim Brown, Richard Jaeckel, Tad Horino, Dindo Fernando, Wilma Reading

Synopsis: With 1985's Pacific Inferno action star Jim Brown made a triumphant return to movies. Or did he? If you read the copyright date carefully, you'll discover that this US-Philippine coproduction was actually shot in 1977. The plot has us believe that General Douglas MacArthur ordered that $16 million Read More

Lady Blue

Synopsis: Known variously as "Skirty Harry" and "Dirty Harriet," beautiful but tough lady police detective Katy Mahoney (Jamie Rose) patrols the mean streets of Chicago. In her dealings with dope pushers, rapists, and loan sharks, Katy would just as soon dispense with Due Process and blast every outlaw away Read More

Black Hollywood: Blaxploitation and Advancing An Independent Black Cinema

Actors: Diahnne Abbott, Rosalind Cash, Alfre Woodard, Jim Brown, Vonetta McGee

Synopsis: Through probing exploration and expert commentary, this documentary takes an in-depth look at the evolution of African American cinema, examining how African Americans have been portrayed in film, and how the community has both utilized and expressed itself through movies. ~ Cammila Albertson, All Read More

Doctor Detroit

Actors: Dan Aykroyd, Howard Hesseman, T.K. Carter, Donna Dixon, Lynn Whitfield

Synopsis: A college professor (Dan Aykroyd is forced to go undercover as a Chicago pimp disguised by a bushy wig -- the height of hairlarity in this anemic comedy. When Smooth Walker (Howard Hesseman) is hunted by his gangster rival, Mom (Kate Murtagh), he foists his bevy of hookers on the professor -- and Read More

One Down Two to Go

Actors: Fred Williamson, Jim Brown, Jim Kelly, Richard Roundtree, Paula Sills

Synopsis: This violent martial-arts film features a galaxy of the blaxploitation genre's best known stars, including Jim Kelly (Black Eliminator) in his final role. Richard Roundtree stars as a tournament promoter who gets shaken down by an evil gangster (Joe Spinell) and must call on his three friends Read More

Fingers

Actors: Harvey Keitel, Tisa Farrow, Jim Brown, Michael Vincente Gazzo, Marian Seldes

Synopsis: Jimmy Angelelli (Harvey Keitel) wants to be a concert pianist. Jimmy's dad, Ben Angelelli (Michael V. Gazzo), wants his son to go into the family business. So far, so banal. But the "family business" depicted in Fingers is organized crime, and therein lies the film's perverse appeal. Fingers Read More

Superbug, the Wild One

Synopsis: The German comedy-fantasy Superbug was a calculated ripoff of Disney's The Love Bug. The title character, a Volkswagen known as Dodo the Beetle, could fly, drive under water and think on its own. The first two films in the Dodo the Beetle saga--Superbug and Superbug, Secret Agent--were box-offices Read More

Kid Vengeance

Actors: Leif Garrett, Jim Brown, Lee Van Cleef, John Marley, Glynnis O'Connor

Synopsis: One of Cannon Films' two 1976 Italian-Israeli co-productions starring Lee Van Cleef and Leif Garrett (Gianfranco Parolini's Pistola di Dio was the other), this spaghetti western was actually shot in the Middle East by American director Joseph Manduke. Pop star Garrett plays Tom, a teenager who Read More

Take a Hard Ride

Actors: Jim Brown, Lee Van Cleef, Fred Williamson, Catherine Spaak, Jim Kelly

Synopsis: Jim Brown and Fred Williamson team up for this violent western, directed by Antonio Marghetti under the name of Anthony M. Dawson. Brown plays Pike, a stonefaced cowboy who meets up Tyree (Fred Williamson), a jocular and dishonest gambler. Together with a mute Indian scout Kashtok (Jim Kelly), the Read More

Adios Amigos

Actors: Fred Williamson, Richard Pryor

Synopsis: One of the first efforts of actor/producer/director Fred Williamson's Po' Boy productions, Adios Amigo costars Williamson with Richard Pryor. Playing a couple of inept western outlaws, Williamson and Pryor mastermind several failed crimes, ranging from a real estate scam to a statecoach holdup. Read More

Superbug Rides Again

Mean Johnny Barrows

Actors: Roddy McDowall, Jenny Sherman, Fred Williamson

Synopsis: A Vietnam War veteran (Fred Williamson) is discharged from the Army, and becomes involved with mobsters when he is unable to find a job. The gang uses him on a job when one of the thugs (Roddy McDowall) and his girlfriend (Jenny Sherman) decide to provoke a gang war. ~ John Bush, All Movie Guide Read More

Three the Hard Way

Actors: Fred Cash, Angelyn Chester, Sam Gooden, Ralph Johnson, Pamela Serpe, Reggie Torian

Synopsis: The "three" alluded to in the title are played by Jim Brown, Fred Williamson and Jim Kelly. Letting their fists do all the talking, the hard-nosed trio takes on a neofascist organization. It is the avowed purpose of this all-white hate group to "cleanse" Los Angeles, Detroit and Washington DC of Read More

I Escaped from Devil's Island

Synopsis: In this violent low-budget actioner from Roger and Gene Corman, two battered prisoners decide they've had enough and attempt to escape the notorious island. Papillon it isn't. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

The Slams

Actors: Frenchia Guizon

Synopsis: In this violent prison drama, an imprisoned criminal finds himself flooded with offers to spring him if only he will reveal the secret location of the $1.5 million he stole from the mob before he went to jail. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Slaughter's Big Ripoff

Actors: Ed McMahon, Jim Brown

Synopsis: The sequel to Slaughter, this film follows the adventures of Slaughter (Jim Brown) as he struggles to kill a group of vengeful mobsters, led by the sinister Duncan (Ed McMahon), before they kill him. ~ Iotis Erlewine, All Movie Guide Read More

The Flip Wilson Show: Season 03

Actors: Flip Wilson

Black Gunn

Actors: Martin Landau, Brenda Sykes, Jim Brown, Tommy Davis, Rick Ferrell, Jay Montgomery, Mark Tapscott

Synopsis: This violent blaxploitation film stars Jim Brown as the owner of a Los Angeles nightclub. When his brother, a Vietnam veteran, is murdered by gangsters, Brown gathers some of his brother's fellow veterans and an assortment of ex-convicts to get brutal revenge. Martin Landau, Luciana Paluzzi, and Jeannie Bell Read More

Slaughter

Actors: Norman Alfe

Synopsis: In this action film, football great Jim Brown stars as Slaughter, an ex-Green Beret. He seeks to avenge the bombing death of his parents. Having done that, he is persuaded to go to Mexico to hunt down some really dangerous criminals. ~ Clarke Fountain, All Movie Guide Read More

Tick, Tick, Tick

Actors: Jim Brown, George Kennedy, Fredric March, Lynn Carlin, Don Stroud

Synopsis: When Jimmy Price (Jim Brown) wins an upset victory for sheriff, he becomes the first black man ever to hold the job (or any elective office) in anyone's memory in his rural southern county. He also sets off an ominous rumblings as the entire county seems split apart by his presence -- Mayor Parks Read More

Rabbit, Run

Crew: First Assistant Director

Actors: James Caan, Anjanette Comer, Jack Albertson, Carrie Snodgress, Melodie Johnson

Synopsis: A young married couple struggle with their personal problems and their union and the forthcoming birth oftheir unwanted child in this grim domestic drama. Much of the story centers on the husband, a former high school basketball star who is unable to leave the glory days behind and fashion a Read More

El Condor

Actors: Florencio Amarilla, Per Barclay, Carlos Bravo, Jim Brown, Elisha Cook, Jr.

Synopsis: Jim Brown and Lee Van Cleef team up for this western set on the Mexican border. Brown is Luke, who escapes from a chain gang after learning that a fortune in gold is hidden in the Mexican fortress of El Condor. He joins up with the snake-eyed crook Jaroo (Lee Van Cleef) and together they round up Read More

100 Rifles

Actors: Jim Brown, Raquel Welch, Burt Reynolds, Fernando Lamas, Dan O'Herlihy

Synopsis: 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

The Grasshopper

Actors: Jacqueline Bisset, Jim Brown, Joseph Cotten, Corbett Monica, Ramon Bieri

Synopsis: Christine (Jacqueline Bisset) is the young bank teller who is bored with her job and her husband. She leaves for Las Vegas where she scores a job as a chorus girl. The beautiful Christine does not have the talent to parlay the job into an upwardly mobile career. She marries an older man and Read More

Kenner

Actors: Jim Brown, Madlyn Rhue, Ricky Cordell, Charles Horvath

Synopsis: Kenner (Jim Brown) arrives in India to seek revenge on the people who killed his business associate. An Indian lad Saji (Ricky Cordell) befriends the American adventurer and helps Kenner. The boy's mother Anasuya (Madlyn Rhue) is wary of the situation until she discovers Kenner is a good man and Read More

Ice Station Zebra

Actors: Rock Hudson, Ernest Borgnine, Patrick McGoohan, Jim Brown, Tony Bill

Synopsis: A top-secret Soviet spy satellite -- using stolen Western technology -- malfunctions and then goes into a descent that lands it near an isolated Arctic research encampment called Ice Station Zebra, belonging to the British, which starts sending out distress signals before falling silent. The Read More

Riot

Actors: Jim Brown, Gene Hackman, Mike Kellin, Gerald O'Loughlin, Ben Carruthers

Synopsis: A desperate group of convicts stage a minor riot to divert attention in an escape attempt. Red (Gene Hackman) and two others perpetrate the uprising, but word has leaked out and the riot is quickly changed into a symbolic protest against prison conditions and alleged cruelty by sadistic guards. Read More

The Split

Actors: Jim Brown, Diahann Carroll, Julie Harris, Ernest Borgnine, Gene Hackman

Synopsis: A pair of crooks conspire to rob the ticket booth at the Los Angeles Coliseum during a Rams game. Before they can perform the heist, the two must find precisely the right henchmen to join them. Each potential gang member must undergo a rigorous test of skill. Thanks to care and precise planning Read More

The Dirty Dozen

Actors: Lee Marvin, Ernest Borgnine, Charles Bronson, Jim Brown, John Cassavetes, George Kennedy, Richard Jaeckel

Synopsis: Director Robert Aldrich took what he considered a hopelessly old-fashioned script by Lukas Heller and Nunnally Johnson and fashioned The Dirty Dozen into one of MGM's biggest moneymakers of the 1960s--and the sixth highest-grossing film in the studio's history. Lee Marvin plays Major Reisman Read More

Rio Conchos

Actors: Richard Boone, Stuart Whitman, Anthony Franciosa, Wende Wagner, Warner Anderson

Synopsis: A huge shipment of rifles are stolen in Texas sometime shortly following the close of the Civil War. It turns out the rifles are going to Apaches who are being recruited by a disgruntled Rebel officer (Edmond O'Brian) who wishes to resurrect the war. Richard Boone and company are sent to reclaim Read More