Football icon turned actor JimBrown has passed away, but his legacy lives on in five of his most famous movies from his time in Hollywood.
On Thursday night, football legend Jim Brown passed away in Los Angeles. Brown was 87 years old, and he was widely regarded as one of the greatest football players to ever play the game. In nine seasons with the Cleveland Browns from 1957 to 1965, Brown won the MVP award three times, broke several of the NFL’s rushing records, and brought an NFL championship home to the city before retiring in his prime at only 30 years old.
Recommended Videos The Dirty Dozen In Brown’s second Hollywood film, The Dirty Dozen, he played Robert Jefferson, a college-educated soldier who was sentenced to death for killing the white soldier who attacked him. Under the command of Major John Reisman , Jefferson and 11 other convicts are given the chance to walk free if they can survive a suicide mission behind enemy lines during the waning days of World War II.
Soon enough, it becomes clear that there is a saboteur among the crew, and suspicion makes the survivors paranoid. With good reason too, because the wolf among them is all too willing to kill to protect himself.The Split The Split gave Brown one of his first starring roles as McClain, a man who engineered a successful heist during a football game with Walter Brill , Harry Kifka , Marty Gough , and Dave Negli . But stealing the money was the easy part.
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