Jim Brown, the NFL Hall of Famer and Civil Rights activist who turned to acting and appeared in films and TV shows ranging from The Dirty Dozen and I Spy to Draft Day, Mars Attacks! and The A-Team, ...

NFL Hall of Famer, film star and civil rights activist Jim Brown has died at the age of 87, according to his family. Brown is arguably considered the greatest running back in the history of the NFL, ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio -- Jim Brown’s legacy transcends football. His spectacular nine-year career as a Hall of Fame NFL running back is dwarfed in time compared to his cinematic career, which spanned six ...

*(CNN) — Jim Brown, the transcendent athlete-actor-activist who ran roughshod over the NFL and its record books in the 1950s and 1960s and won multiple MVP awards before retiring abruptly at age 30 to ...

Pro Football Hall of Famer Jim Brown, the unstoppable running back who retired at the peak of his brilliant career to become an actor as well as a prominent civil rights advocate during the 1960s, has ...

His wife, Monique, announced his passing on Instagram. “It is with profound sadness that I announce the passing of my husband, Jim Brown, she wrote. “To the world he was an activist, actor, and ...

Pro Football Hall of Famer Jim Brown, the unstoppable running back who retired at the peak of his brilliant career to become an actor as well as a prominent civil rights advocate during the 1960s, has ...

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Brown shattered NFL records and led the Cleveland Browns to their last championship in 1964. He retired in his prime to become an actor. Jimmy Brown (32), running back for the Cleveland Browns, is ...

The football world lost an all-time great on Thursday, as Hall of Fame running back Jim Brown died at the age of 87. Brown, widely considered one of the greatest players in the history of the sport, ...