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James Brown

Birth Name:James Joseph Brown

Birth Place:Barnwell, South Carolina, United States

Profession Soundtrack, Actor, Music department

Actor

14 Credits
Robots
Beat the Devil
The Tuxedo
Holy Man
Blues Brothers 2000
Duckman
The Simpsons
Amen
Miami Vice
Throb
Rocky IV
Doctor Detroit
The Blues Brothers
The Phynx

performer

290 Credits
AMHQ Weekend
NCIS: Origins
Play Dirty
CBS Sunday Morning
Duster
Highest 2 Lowest
Tracker
Dope Thief
Back in Action
Dog Man
Fight Night: The Million Dollar Heist
The Killer's Game
Blink Twice
Sexy Beast
The Continental
Creed III
Magic Mike's Last Dance
You People
Is That Black Enough for You?!?
The Man Who Fell to Earth
The Many Saints of Newark
Respect
Space Jam: A New Legacy
American Dad!
1971: The Year That Music Changed Everything
McDonald & Dodds
Morning Joe
Them
Genius
Black Lightning
The Sparks Brothers
Malcolm & Marie
Bull
The Babysitter: Killer Queen
El Presidente
The Simpsons
Watchmen
Magnum P.I.
Titans
Good Morning Britain
Shaft
Billions
RuPaul's Drag Race
What Men Want
Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse
Bumblebee
New Amsterdam
Beat Shazam
Marvel's Luke Cage
Britain's Got Talent
Whitney
Don't Worry, He Won't Get Far on Foot
I'm a Celebrity, Get Me Out of Here!
The Blacklist
The Deuce
Angie Tribeca
Girlboss
The Breaks
Lucifer
Demain tout commence
I Am Not Your Negro
Muhammad Ali: The Greatest
Live Another Day
Harry Benson: Shoot First
Barbershop: The Next Cut
Vinyl
Late Night With Seth Meyers
Pretty Little Liars
Scandal
Mulaney
Paddington
Mr. Dynamite: The Rise of James Brown
Get On Up
The Sixties
About Last Night
Teen Titans Go!
Mike & Mike
White Collar
Jingle Bell Rocks!
Rugby League World Cup
Battle of the Year
Lee Daniels' The Butler
Finding the Funk
The Tonight Show With Jay Leno
The Rocket
Django Unchained
Not Fade Away
Stars 80
A Thousand Words
Think Like a Man
Safe House
Something From Nothing: The Art of Rap
Fresh Meat
Rude Tube
Friends With Kids
20 to 1
My Big Fat Gypsy Wedding
Schooling the World
Detroit 1-8-7
UnSung
Live From Studio Five
The Cleveland Show
Smokin' Aces 2: Assassins' Ball
Crazy on the Outside
Cirque du Freak: The Vampire's Assistant
Dzi Croquettes
America's Got Talent
Fish Tank
Different from Whom
My Name Is Earl
Everybody Hates Chris
So You Think You Can Dance Canada
Entourage
Sex: The Revolution
Soul Power
Pig Hunt
2 Alone in Paris
Jolene
The Wackness
ER
Secret Diary of a Call Girl
Mr. Untouchable
Damages
Young@Heart
Transformers
Are We Done Yet?
Spider-Man 3
The Reaping
Talk to Me
Pride
Banished
Celebrity Big Brother
Music Within
Star Stories
Malcolm in the Middle
In the Mix
Kinky Boots
Romance & Cigarettes
Elizabethtown
The 40 Year-Old Virgin
Guess Who
Robots
Be Cool
The Wedding Date
Flight of the Phoenix
Blade: Trinity
The Wire
Stephen King's Riding the Bullet
Mr. 3000
Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story
Garfield: The Movie
Cold Case
Twisted
The Woodsman
South Park
The Bernie Mac Show
The Real Cancun
Scrubs
Dysfunktional Family
Biker Boyz
Two Weeks Notice
Home Alone 4
Beat the Devil
Boat Trip
The Tuxedo
Love and a Bullet
Drumline
Barbershop
Juwanna Mann
Undercover Brother
City of God
The New Guy
Showtime
Poolhall Junkies
Asterix & Obelix: Mission Cleopatra
How High
Black Knight
Riding in Cars With Boys
State of Grace
Legally Blonde
What's the Worst That Could Happen?
Special Unit 2
Exit Wounds
Scratch
The Crew
Nutty Professor II: The Klumps
WCW SuperBrawl 2000
Gun Shy
Boiler Room
Isn't She Great
Liberty Heights
Harlem Aria
Bowfinger
Muppets From Space
24 Nights
EDtv
My Favorite Martian
The '60s
Payback
Warfreak
Simon Birch
Rush Hour
Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels
Why Do Fools Fall in Love
How Stella Got Her Groove Back
Spanish Fly
Those Who Love Me Can Take the Train
Goodbye Lover
Blues Brothers 2000
Sex and Chocolate
Kiss the Girls
A Smile Like Yours
Def Jam's How to Be a Player
Face Off
Kicked in the Head
Das Leben ist eine Baustelle
Love Jones
Metro
Ernst & Lyset
Homicide: Life on the Street
Alles Nur Tarnung
Head Above Water
Muppets Tonight
Get on the Bus
Fled
Harriet the Spy
The Nutty Professor
The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air
3rd Rock from the Sun
Ballykissangel
When We Were Kings
On the Air
It Takes Two
Dead Presidents
Apollo 13
New York Undercover
Friday
Panther
Tales from the Crypt Presents: Demon Knight
Party of Five
Law & Order
Baseball
Crooklyn
Trading Mom
Mrs. Doubtfire
Armistead Maupin's 'Tales of the City'
Mr. Jones
A Bronx Tale
Laurel Avenue
Mi Vida Loca
American Playhouse
Who's the Man?
Bound by Honor
Boomerang
Red Shoe Diaries
White Men Can't Jump
The Wonder Years
Delirious
Hudson Hawk
Doogie Howser, M.D.
Quantum Leap
Jacob's Ladder
Mr. Destiny
Midnight Caller
Get a Life
Murphy Brown
K-9
Who's Harry Crumb?
Torch Song Trilogy
Almost Grown
The Blue Iguana
Off Limits
Good Morning, Vietnam
Miami Vice
Full House
Eye of the Tiger
Iron Eagle
Rocky IV
Doctor Detroit
Android
WKRP in Cincinnati
The Fan
Christmas Evil
The Blues Brothers
Quadrophenia
Black Caesar
The Hollywood Palace
Mondo Trasho
Where the Action Is
The T.A.M.I. Show

writer

138 Credits
The Family Plan 2
Dancing With the Stars
Father Mother Sister Brother
Madea's Destination Wedding
Trouble Man
Hacks
Family Guy
The Clash
Reasonable Doubt
The Deliverance
The Project
The Sympathizer
Shirley
The Voice
The Venture Bros.: Radiant is the Blood of the Baboon Heart
Human Resources
Big George Foreman
The Midnight Club
Love Island USA
Rap Sh!t
Alice
The Shrink Next Door
Mayor of Kingstown
House of Gucci
City on a Hill
The Duchess
High Fidelity
Birds of Prey
The Forty-Year-Old Version
Spies in Disguise
Stumptown
Tall Girl
Hitsville: The Making of Motown
The Kitchen
Pose
Papicha
American Soul
Mid90s
Swimming With Men
BlacKkKlansman
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
Blue Note Records: Beyond the Notes
The Looming Tower
Unsolved: The Murders of Tupac and The Notorious B.I.G.
Fifty Shades Freed
All the Money in the World
The Disaster Artist
Mystery Science Theater 3000
Tu cara me suena
The Big Sick
Strictly Come Dancing
Scream Queens
Who's Doing the Dishes?
One to One!
Independent Lens
Shades of Blue
Sisters
Fresh Off the Boat
The X Factor UK
Entourage
Focus
Big Eyes
Australian Story
So You Think You Can Dance
Jimi: All Is By My Side
The Great Gatsby
Identity Thief
I Give It a Year
Sparkle
The Voice UK
American Idol: The Search for a Superstar
Charles Bradley: Soul of America
Smash
Late Show With David Letterman
Frontline
Treme
The Interrupters
Glee
Barney's Version
Iron Man 2
A Drummer's Dream
Dancing on Ice
The Runaways
The Proposal
Will Ferrell: You're Welcome America---A Final Night With George W. Bush
No Te Metas Con Zohan
Run Fatboy Run
Sunday Driver
Australian Idol
Lost
RocKwiz
Black in the 80s
Saturday Night Live
Kangaroo Jack
Martin Lawrence Live: Runteldat
Hey Arnold! The Movie
Crossing Jordan
Bones
Life as a House
Osmosis Jones
Rush Hour 2
At Home With the Braithwaites
Snatch
The Original Kings of Comedy
Julien Donkey-Boy
The Sopranos
Dr. Dolittle
Steel
One Eight Seven
The Ditchdigger's Daughters
Jerry Maguire
Dweebs
Married...With Children
To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything! Julie Newmar
Martin
A Low Down Dirty Shame
Sister, Sister
Sugar Hill
Mystery Science Theater 3000
The Bold and the Beautiful
Ghost in the Machine
Beavis and Butt-head
Top of the Pops
Untamed Heart
The Jacksons: An American Dream
The Cosby Show
Pump Up the Volume
Another 48 Hrs.
The Super Mario Bros. Super Show!
Moonlighting
No Man's Land
Summer School
EastEnders
Moving Violations
The Kids Are Alright
This Is Tom Jones
Opportunity Knocks
Shindig

Soundtrack

6 Credits
Paul Shaffer Plus One
Stuttgart Homicide
The Wood
Tommy Boy
Tribeca
The Return of Superfly

lyrics

1 Credit
Ski Party

Composer

3 Credits
Slaughter's Big Rip-Off
Black Caesar
Lord Thing

Self

68 Credits
Zaina Juliette & Friends
The Evolution of Black British Music
Night of the Proms
Power of Soul
Sid Bernstein Presents...
American Masters
Glastonbury
Soul Deep: The Story of Black Popular Music
The World's Greatest Gigs
Friday Night With Jonathan Ross
Howard Stern
The View
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
Paper Chasers
HBO First Look
Undercover Brother
WCW SuperBrawl 2000
Late Show With David Letterman
Behind the Music
Late Night With Conan O'Brien
Soulmates
Biography
When We Were Kings
Rock & Roll
The History of Rock 'N' Roll, Vol. 6
New York Undercover
The Arsenio Hall Show
Wheel of Fortune
The Howard Stern Interview
In Living Color
Late Night with David Letterman
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
Yo! MTV Raps
Ebony/Jet Showcase
Top of the Pops
Showtime at the Apollo
Nightlife
Today
Arena
Salute!
Thicke of the Night
American Bandstand
When the Music's Over
The John Davidson Show
Solid Gold
Sha Na Na
Saturday Night Live
The Mike Douglas Show
James Brown: Body Heat
The Midnight Special
Tattletales
Dinah!
In Concert
Soul Train
The Merv Griffin Show
The Flip Wilson Show
Playboy After Dark
The Joey Bishop Show
The Match Game
The Hollywood Palace
James Brown: Live at the Boston Garden, 1968
Where the Action Is
The Ed Sullivan Show
Shindig
Ski Party
Shivaree
Night Train
The T.A.M.I. Show

performed by

1 Credit
Maxine's Baby: The Tyler Perry Story

featured musical performer

1 Credit
Doctor Detroit

music performed by

1 Credit
Slaughter's Big Rip-Off