His Browns won the NFL championship in 1964, three years before the first Super Bowl.
Other film roles would includeSlaughter, Keenan Ivory WayansIm Gonna Git You Suckaand Oliver stonesAny Given Sunday.
On TV, he had roles on such popular series asCHiPs, Knight Rider,T.J.
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Hooker, The A-TeamandArli$$, among many others.
It also starring another running back-turned-actor, Burt Reynolds.
All of them were beginning to assert themselves in the Civil Rights movement.
From left: Jim Brown, Charles Bronson and George Kennedy in 1967’s ‘The Dirty Dozen.’Everett Collection
Afterward, all 11 athletes held a press conference and expressed their unified support for Ali.
Among the classic lines are one about a time Brown bit off part of a defenders finger.
Pryor said: Referee asked, Whyd you do that?
Jim said, All outside this mask belongs to him; all inside belongs to me.
More great lines: Some people have a death wish and like to f*ck with him.
And thats all it can be is a death wish.
Later, Pryor added that Brown knew nothing about the backdown.
Cause Jim will say, Well, thats an ass-whoopin I gotta take.
You gonna get well, or you gonna end out friendship.
What you gonna do?
It hit on such topics as racism in the NFL, his cocaine sprees, affairs and much more.
Tom Tapp contributed to this report.
