Known for movies
Short Info
Net Worth | $20 million |
Date Of Birth | April 16, 1947, April 16, 1947 |
Spouse | Habiba Abdul-Jabbar |
Mark | Shooting the "sky-hook" and wearing goggles when he played |
Fact | Assistant coach for the NBA Los Angeles Clippers, (2000). |
Payments | Earned $35,000 from Airplane! (1980) |
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar is an American former professional basketball player who played 20 seasons in the National Basketball Association (NBA) for the Milwaukee Bucks and the Los Angeles Lakers. During his career as a center, Abdul-Jabbar was a record six-time NBA Most Valuable Player (MVP), a record 19-time NBA All-Star, a 15-time All-NBA selection, and an 11-time NBA All-Defensive Team member. A member of six NBA championship teams as a player and two as an assistant coach, Abdul-Jabbar twice was voted NBA Finals MVP. In 1996, he was honored as one of the 50 Greatest Players in NBA History. NBA coach Pat Riley and players Isiah Thomas and Julius Erving have called him the greatest basketball player of all time.
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Abdul-Jabbar was born Ferdinand Lewis Alcindor Jr. in New York City, the only child of Cora Lillian (née Dunbar), a department store price checker, and Ferdinand Lewis Alcindor Sr., a transit police officer and jazz musician. He was raised as a Roman Catholic and changed his name to Kareem Abdul-Jabbar at age 24.
In high school, he played on the varsity basketball team at Power Memorial Academy, a Catholic boys’ high school in Manhattan. From 1966 to 1969, he played for John Wooden at UCLA. He led the Bruins to three consecutive NCAA men’s basketball championships, and was named the tournament’s Most Outstanding Player all three years. His collegiate career record of 2,325 points (38.3 per game) stood as the NCAA Division I men’s basketball record for 41 years until it was broken by Pete Maravich in 1970.
Abdul-Jabbar was selected by the Milwaukee Bucks with the first overall pick in the 1969 NBA draft. He won the NBA Rookie of the Year Award in 1970. In 1975, he was traded to the Lakers, with whom he played the final 14 seasons of his career and won five additional NBA championships. Abdul-Jabbar’s contributions were a key component in the “Showtime” era of Lakers basketball. Over his 20-year NBA career, his regular season scoring average of 24.6 points per game ranks first all-time, while his 38,387 total points rank third in league history behind only Karl Malone and LeBron James. He is the all-time leading scorer in the NBA playoffs with 5,762 points (33.4 ppg).
Abdul-Jabbar has also been an actor, a basketball coach, and a best-selling author. In 2012, he was selected by Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to be a U.S. global cultural ambassador.
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— Kareem Abdul-Jabbar (@kaj33) May 16, 2022
Early Life
Ferdinand Lewis Alcindor Jr. was born on April 16, 1947, in New York City, the only child of Cora Lillian (née Dunbar), a department store price checker, and Ferdinand Lewis Alcindor Sr., a transit police officer and jazz musician. His mother was African American and his father was of Afro-Jamaican descent; both were from Brooklyn. Alcindor was raised as a Roman Catholic and changed his name to Kareem Abdul-Jabbar at age 24. “I didn’t like my name,” he once said. “My father’s name was Ferdinand Lewis Alcindor Sr., my mother’s Cora Lillian Dunbar. They named me Ferdinand Lewis Alcindor Jr., but my friends called me Lew Alcindor when I was a kid.” When he was in eighth grade, his family moved to Inwood in Manhattan. He attended Power Memorial Academy, a Catholic boys’ high school in Manhattan where he played on the varsity basketball team and led them to three straight New York City Catholic championships from 1964 to 1966.
Alcindor began his record-breaking basketball career at Power Memorial Academy where he led his high school team to 71 consecutive victories from 1962 to 1965. During that time period Power won four New York City Catholic championships and three New York State championships under coach Jack Donohue. Alcindor remains one of only two players to start on three straight championship teams (the other being Magic Johnson). The 71 consecutive wins is still an NYC record for high school teams; it has since been broken by Abraham Lincoln High School with their 72nd win on January 26th, 2013 against Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology.
Career
Abdul-Jabbar was selected by the Milwaukee Bucks with the first overall pick in the 1969 NBA draft. He won the NBA Rookie of the Year Award in 1970 after averaging 28.8 points per game and 14.5 rebounds per game; both figures are still Bucks franchise records for rookies. The following year, he was voted the NBA MVP after averaging 34.8 points per game and 16 rebounds per game; both figures are still franchise records for a single season. He played for the Bucks until 1974 when he was traded to the Los Angeles Lakers.
In 1975, Abdul-Jabbar was traded to the Lakers, with whom he played the final 14 seasons of his career and won five additional NBA championships. Abdul-Jabbar’s contributions were a key component in the “Showtime” era of Lakers basketball. Over his 20-year NBA career, his regular season scoring average of 24.6 points per game ranks first all-time, while his 38,387 total points rank third in league history behind only Karl Malone and LeBron James. He is the all-time leading scorer in the NBA playoffs with 5,762 points (33.4 ppg).
Abdul-Jabbar has also been an actor, a basketball coach, and a best-selling author. In 2012, he was selected by Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to be a U.S. global cultural ambassador.
General Info
Full Name | Kareem Abdul-Jabbar |
Net Worth | $20 million |
Date Of Birth | April 16, 1947, April 16, 1947 |
Height | 2.18 m, 2.18 m |
Weight | 112 kg, 112 kg |
Profession | Screenwriter, Film producer, Author, Basketball coach, Basketball player, Actor, Actor, Author, Basketball coach, Film producer, Screenwriter, Basketball player |
Education | University of California, Los Angeles, Power Memorial Academy |
Nationality | American, American |
Family
Spouse | Habiba Abdul-Jabbar |
Children | Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Jr., Adam Abdul-Jabbar, Amir Abdul-Jabbar, Sultana Abdul-Jabbar, Habiba Abdul-Jabbar |
Parents | Ferdinand Lewis Alcindor, Sr., Cora Lillian |
Accomplishments
Awards | NBA Most Valuable Player Award, Bill Russell NBA Finals Most Valuable Player Award, All-NBA Team, NBA Rookie of the Year Award, NBA All-Defensive Team, Presidential Medal of Freedom, NBA All-Rookie Team, Naismith Men's College Player of the Year, Sports Illustrated Sportsperson of the Year, NAACP Im... |
Nominations | NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work, Nonfiction |
Movies | Airplane!, Ask Max, The Stand, Slam Dunk Ernest, Whitepaddy, On the Shoulders of Giants, The Savoy King: Chick Webb and the Music That Changed America, All-Star Tribute to Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Jake Spanner, Private Eye |
TV Shows | Uncle Buck, Matrix, Uncle Buck, Matrix |
Social profile links
Marks
# | Marks / Signs |
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1 | Deep voice |
2 | Towering height |
3 | Shooting the "sky-hook" and wearing goggles when he played |
4 | Wears a #33 on his basketball jersey |
Salary
Title | Salary |
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Airplane! (1980) | $35,000 |
Quotes
# | Quote |
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1 | [observation, 2016] Most young people today know Muhammad Ali only as the hunched old man whose body shook ceaselessly from Parkinson's. But I, and millions of other Americans black and white, remember him as the man whose mind and body once shook the world. We have been better off because of it. |
2 | [on an interview between Barack Obama and ballerina Misty Copeland] Throw in a rabbi and a priest and you've got the start of a classic water cooler joke. But add first black U.S. President and first black female principal dancer for the American Ballet Theater and it's no longer a joke but an uplifting ideal for a new generation of African Americana. Two shining models of how diligence, discipline and perseverance can overcome even the most daunting obstacles to achieve the American Dream. But being a black role model is a doubt-edged sword of inspiration and frustration... |
3 | Despite the fact that I've been writing about politics longer than I played sports, many of my critics begin their comments with "Stick to basketball, Kareem". By dismissing someone's views based on their profession, such critics are dismissing their own opinions as frivolous. ("Stick to plumbing" "Stick to proctology")..The idea that an athlete can't think is a stereotype of the dumb jock who is too busy jamming adorable kids into lockers to know anything about the world around him except what Coach tells him. Those days are over, folks. |
4 | Maybe the worst racism of all is denying that racism exists, because it keeps us from repairing the damage. This country needs a social colonoscopy to look for the hidden racist polyps. The finish line is when racism no longer exists, not when people claim it doesn't exist because they don't personally notice it. Why is it that the people who are declaring racism dead are mostly white? |
5 | I think Bono needs glasses to see. I needed glasses so I could keep people's fingers out of my eyes. |
6 | Players today are tremendously gifted, but they don't understand the game as well as players from my generation who got to play in college and learn the nuances, when situations arise that lead to victory or defeat. They think it's all about being on Play of the Day. |
7 | After 9/11, all of a sudden you have this suspicious spotlight on you just because you're Muslim. It was a radical change and it really bothered me. People understand that, even though they take a Christian identity, are not practicing what Jesus was all about. It's the same thing with the radical Islamic people. They're about hatred and trying to impose their will on people. |
8 | On Coach John Wooden: He broke basketball down to it's basic elements. He always told us basketball was a simple game, but his ability to make the game simple was part of his genius. There was no ranting and raving, no histrionics or theatrics. To lead the way Coach Wooden led takes a tremendous amount of faith. He was almost mystical in his approach, yet that approach only strengthened our confidence. Coach Wooden enjoyed winning, but he did not put winning above everything. He was more concerned that we became successful as human beings, that we earned our degrees, that we learned to make the right choices as adults and as parents. In essence, he was preparing us for life. |
9 | On meeting Coach John Wooden: Coach Wooden's office was about the size of a walk-in closet. I was brought in, and there was this very quaint-looking Midwesterner. I'd heard a lot about this man and his basketball wisdom, but he surely look like he belonged in a one-room schoolhouse. I found myself liking Mr. Wooden right away. He was calm, in no hurry to impress me with his knowledge or his power. He called me Lewis, and that decision endeared him to me even more. It was at once formal, my full name. II was no baby Lewie. Lewis. I liked that. |
10 | I saw Islam as the correct way to live, and I chose to try to live that way. |
Facts
# | Fact |
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1 | He was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation's highest civilian award, by President Barack Obama, in a live televised ceremony held in the East Room of the White House, on November 22, 2016, along with twenty other recipients, the the largest, and final Medal of Freedom ceremony of Obama's presidency. At this ceremony, the twenty-one recipients, in alphabetical order, included: Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Elouise Cobell (posthumous award given to her son), Ellen DeGeneres, Robert De Niro, Richard Garwin, Bill Gates, Melinda Gates, Frank Gehry, Margaret Hamilton (as Margaret H. Hamilton), Tom Hanks, Rear Admiral Grace Hopper (posthumous award given to her niece), Michael Jordan, Maya Lin, Lorne Michaels, Newton Minow, Eduardo Padron (as Eduardo Padrón), Robert Redford, Diana Ross, Vin Scully, Bruce Springsteen, and Cicely Tyson. |
2 | When he appeared on Celebrity Jeopardy, the camera had to be moved back 5 feet to keep all three contestant in shot due to KAJ's height. |
3 | Coached the Oklahoma Storm of the United States Basketball League in 2002, leading them to the league championship before resigning. |
4 | Diagnosed with leukemia in December, 2008. |
5 | Retired from the NBA in 1989. |
6 | Father of Kareem Abdul-Jabbar. |
7 | Father was a transit police officer in New York City. |
8 | Grandparents are originally from Trinidad and Tobago, West Indies. |
9 | Pearl Jam's Jeff Ament wrote a song about him based on the urban myth that he lost all of his money investing in hotels for tall people. The song, entitled "Sweet Lew," appears on the album "Lost Dogs." |
10 | Played in 18 NBA All-Star Games (1970-1977, 1979-1989). |
11 | Played for UCLA (1965-1969). The Sporting News College Player of the Year (1967, 1969). Three-time First Team All-America (1967-1969). Two-time National Player of the Year (1967, 1969). Three-time NCAA Tournament Most Outstanding Player (1967-1969). Naismith Award winner (1969). Leading scorer in UCLA history. Led NCAA with .667 field goal percentage (1967) and .635 field goal percentage (1969). |
12 | NBA 35th Anniversary All-Time Team (1980). NBA 50th Anniversary All-Time Team (1996). |
13 | Holds NBA career records for most minutes (57,446), most points (38,387), most field goals made (15,837) and most field goals attempted (28,307). First player in NBA history to play 20 seasons. Led NBA in scoring (1971-1931.7 ppg, 1972-1934.8 ppg). Led NBA in rebounding (1976-1916.9 rpg). Led NBA in blocked shots (1975, 1976, 1979, 1980). NBA MVP (1971-1972, 1974, 1976, 1977, 1980). NBA Rookie of the Year (1970). All NBA First Team (1971-1974, 1976-1977, 1980-1981, 1984, 1986). NBA All-Defensive First Team (1974-1975, 1979-1981). NBA Finals MVP (1971, 1985). |
14 | Assistant coach for the NBA Los Angeles Clippers, (2000). |
15 | The NCAA outlawed the dunk shot because of his dominance at center for UCLA. |
16 | Began wearing goggles on the court due to corneal erosion syndrome, a condition where the eye cornea doesn't produce moisture and begins to dry out. |
17 | Holds the NBA record for Most Valuable Player awards with six. |
18 | Only college player to win three Player of the Year awards. |
19 | Studied Jeet Kune Do Martial arts under Bruce Lee. |
20 | Played for the National Basketball Association's (NBA) Milwaukee Bucks (1969-1970 thru 1974-1975) and Los Angeles Lakers (1975-1976 thru 1988-1989). |
21 | Enshrined in the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame in 1995. |
22 | Graduate of Power Memorial High School, New York City. |
23 | NBA's all-time leading scorer with 38,387 points. |
24 | B.A. from U.C.L.A. [1969] |
Pictures
Movies
Actor
Title | Year | Status | Character |
---|---|---|---|
The Crazy Ones | 2014 | TV Series | Kareem Abdul-Jabbar |
Guys with Kids | 2012 | TV Series | Kareem Abdul-Jabbar |
Scrubs | 2006 | TV Series | Kareem Abdul-Jabbar |
Whitepaddy | 2006 | Hank | |
The Brian Benben Show | 2000 | TV Series | Kareem Abdul-Jabbar |
Saved by the Bell: The New Class | 1998 | TV Series | Kareem Abdul-Jabbar |
BASEketball | 1998 | Kareem Abdul-Jabbar | |
Everybody Loves Raymond | 1996 | TV Series | Kareem Abdul-Jabbar |
Martin | 1996 | TV Series | Dr. Skyhook |
Slam Dunk Ernest | 1995 | Video | The Archangel of Basketball |
Forget Paris | 1995 | Kareem Abdul-Jabbar | |
The Critic | 1994 | TV Series | Kareem Abdul-Jabbar |
The Stand | 1994 | TV Mini-Series | The Monster / Monster Shouter |
Matrix | 1993 | TV Series | Blind Man |
Uncle Buck | 1991 | TV Series | Judge |
Amen | 1991 | TV Series | The Wiz |
21 Jump Street | 1990 | TV Series | Wesley Williams |
Jake Spanner, Private Eye | 1989 | TV Movie | Man at Sal's House |
Bustin' Loose | 1987 | TV Series | |
Diff'rent Strokes | 1982-1985 | TV Series | Mr. Wilkes |
Fletch | 1985 | Kareem Abdul-Jabbar | |
Tales from the Darkside | 1985 | TV Series | The Djinn, Jan Bin Jan |
Airplane! | 1980 | Roger Murdock (as Kareem Abdul-Jabaar) | |
Man from Atlantis | 1977 | TV Series | Thark |
Emergency! | 1974 | TV Series | Man Stuck in Car |
Mannix | 1971 | TV Series | Jeff |
Producer
Title | Year | Status | Character |
---|---|---|---|
On the Shoulders of Giants | 2011 | Documentary executive producer | |
On the Shoulders of Giants: The Story of the Greatest Team You Never Heard Of | 2010 | Documentary executive producer | |
The Vernon Johns Story | 1994 | TV Movie executive producer | |
All-Star Tribute to Kareem Abdul-Jabbar | 1989 | TV Movie producer |
Writer
Title | Year | Status | Character |
---|---|---|---|
On the Shoulders of Giants | 2011 | Documentary written by | |
On the Shoulders of Giants: The Story of the Greatest Team You Never Heard Of | 2010 | Documentary |
Self
Title | Year | Status | Character |
---|---|---|---|
Celebrity Family Feud | 2017 | TV Series | Himself |
30 for 30 | 2017 | TV Series documentary | Himself |
The Bachelorette | 2017 | TV Series | Himself |
Tavis Smiley | 2004-2017 | TV Series | Himself / Himself - Guest |
The Chew | 2017 | TV Series | Himself |
Mike & Mike | 2010-2017 | TV Series | Himself - Basketball Hall of Famer / Himself - Telephone Interviewee / Himself - Guest |
CBS This Morning | 2016-2017 | TV Series | Himself - Author / Himself |
A Football Life | 2016 | TV Series | Himself |
Well Read V | 2016 | TV Series | Himself - Guest |
WGN Morning News | 2016 | TV Series | Himself |
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert | 2016 | TV Series | Himself - Surprise Appearance |
AC Green: Iron Virgin | 2016 | TV Movie documentary | |
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon | 2015-2016 | TV Series | Himself - Pop-a-Shot Player / Himself - Responding to Donald Trump |
PoliticKING with Larry King | 2015 | TV Series | Himself - guest |
PBS NewsHour | 2015 | TV Series | Himself |
Kareem: Minority of One | 2015 | Documentary | Himself |
The View | 2015 | TV Series | Himself |
Home & Family | 2015 | TV Series | Himself - Author, Mycroft Holmes |
Sunday Morning Futures with Maria Bartiromo | 2015 | TV Series | Himself - Author, Mycroft Holmes |
Today | 2008-2015 | TV Series | Himself / Himself - Guest |
The Colbert Report | 2011-2014 | TV Series | Himself - Guest |
Hollywood Health Report | 2014 | TV Series | Himself |
Stand Up to Cancer | 2014 | TV Special | Himself |
Huckabee | 2014 | TV Series | Himself - Former NBA Player |
Real Time with Bill Maher | 2014 | TV Series | Himself - Guest |
Inside Edition | 2014 | TV Series documentary | Himself |
Politics Nation with Al Sharpton | 2014 | TV Series | Himself |
The Arsenio Hall Show | 2013-2014 | TV Series | Himself - Guest |
Charlie Rose | 2013 | TV Series | Himself - Guest |
The Broadway.com Show | 2013 | TV Series | Himself |
Splash | 2013 | TV Series | Himself - Contestant |
Watch What Happens: Live | 2013 | TV Series | Himself - Guest |
Jimmy Kimmel Live! | 2010-2013 | TV Series | Himself - Guest |
Conan | 2013 | TV Series | Himself - Guest |
44th NAACP Image Awards | 2013 | TV Special documentary | Himself |
The 86th Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade | 2012 | TV Special | Himself |
Iconoclasts | 2012 | TV Series documentary | Himself |
The Savoy King: Chick Webb & the Music That Changed America | 2012 | Documentary | Dizzy Gillespie (voice) |
Late Night with Jimmy Fallon | 2012 | TV Series | Himself - Guest |
Jeopardy! | 1998-2012 | TV Series | Himself - Celebrity Contestant / Himself - Video Clue Presenter |
New Girl | 2012 | TV Series | Himself |
The Wendy Williams Show | 2012 | TV Series | Himself - Guest |
NBA Hardwood Classics | 2011 | TV Series | Himself |
Talk Stoop with Cat Greenleaf | 2011 | TV Series | Himself - Guest |
The Wooden Effect | 2011 | Short | Himself |
Chelsea Lately | 2011 | TV Series | Himself - Guest |
The Mo'Nique Show | 2011 | TV Series | Himself - Guest |
The Simpsons | 2011 | TV Series | Himself |
Maltin on Movies | 2011 | TV Series | Himself - Guest |
On the Shoulders of Giants: The Story of the Greatest Team You Never Heard Of | 2010 | Documentary | Himself - Narrator |
The Rally to Restore Sanity and/or Fear | 2010 | TV Special | Himself |
Stand Up to Cancer | 2010 | TV Special | Himself |
Entertainment Tonight | 2010 | TV Series | Himself |
The Brian McKnight Show | 2009 | TV Series | Himself |
Late Show with David Letterman | 1997-2009 | TV Series | Himself - Guest / Himself - Visits the NBA Finals |
The Tonight Show with Conan O'Brien | 2009 | TV Series | Himself - Guest |
How Bruce Lee Changed the World | 2009 | TV Movie documentary | |
Kobe Doin' Work | 2009 | TV Movie documentary | Himself |
The Girls Next Door | 2009 | TV Series | Himself - Basketball Player |
Chabad: To Life Telethon | 2008 | TV Movie | Himself |
Yes We Can | 2008 | Video short | Himself |
An Evening of Stars: Tribute to Smokey Robinson | 2008 | TV Movie | Himself |
The Black List: Volume One | 2008 | Documentary | Himself |
Book TV | 2007 | TV Series | Himself |
Stars on Stars | 2007 | TV Series | Himself |
The UCLA Dynasty | 2007 | TV Movie documentary | Himself (as Lew Alcindor) |
The Apprentice | 2007 | TV Series | Himself |
Ali's 65 | 2007 | TV Movie documentary | Himself |
Ali Rap | 2006 | TV Movie | Himself |
ESPN 25: Who's #1? | 2004-2006 | TV Series documentary | Himself |
The 58th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards | 2006 | TV Special | Himself |
The Real: Rucker Park Legends | 2006 | Video documentary | Himself |
Quite Frankly with Stephen A. Smith | 2006 | TV Series | Himself |
ESPN Hollywood | 2006 | TV Series | Himself |
Untitled David Diamond/David Weissman Project | 2005 | TV Movie | Himself |
The Drop | 2004-2005 | TV Series | Himself / Himself - Host |
ESPN SportsCentury | 2000-2004 | TV Series documentary | Himself |
The Late Late Show with Craig Kilborn | 2004 | TV Series | Himself - Guest |
Dennis Miller | 2004 | TV Series | Himself - Guest |
The Daily Show | 2004 | TV Series | Himself - Guest |
Hollywood Squares | 2004 | TV Series | Himself |
The Tim McCarver Show | 2003 | TV Series | |
2003 Trumpet Awards | 2003 | TV Special | Himself |
The Story | 2000 | Video documentary short | Mantis (credit only) |
Late Night with Conan O'Brien | 2000 | TV Series | Himself - Guest |
Famous Families | 1999 | TV Series documentary | Himself |
The Path of the Dragon | 1998 | Video documentary short | Himself |
The Gregory Hines Show | 1998 | TV Series | Himself - Guest |
Blue Note - A Story of Modern Jazz | 1997 | TV Movie documentary | Himself |
Boston Common | 1997 | TV Series | Himself |
Living Single | 1997 | TV Series | Himself |
Rebound: The Legend of Earl 'The Goat' Manigault | 1996 | TV Movie | Himself |
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno | 1995-1996 | TV Series | Himself - Guest |
The 68th Annual Academy Awards | 1996 | TV Special | Himself - Co-Presenter: Best Animated Short Film |
Buddies | 1996 | TV Series | Himself |
Fields of Fire: Sports in the 60s | 1995 | TV Movie documentary | Himself - Player |
A Night to Die for | 1995 | TV Short documentary | Himself |
Full House | 1995 | TV Series | Himself |
AFI Life Achievement Award: A Tribute to Jack Nicholson | 1994 | TV Special | Himself |
The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air | 1994 | TV Series | Himself |
D2: The Mighty Ducks | 1994 | Himself | |
ESPN Outside the Lines Primetime | 1994 | TV Series | Himself |
In Living Color | 1994 | TV Series | Himself |
Phenom | 1994 | TV Series | Himself |
Biography | 1994 | TV Series documentary | Himself |
Third Annual Rock N' Jock B-Ball Jam | 1993 | TV Special | Himself - Special Guest |
The Curse of the Dragon | 1993 | Documentary | Himself |
Late Night with David Letterman | 1983-1992 | TV Series | Himself - Guest / Himself |
One on One with John Tesh | 1992 | TV Series | Himself - Guest |
Face to Face with Connie Chung | 1991 | TV Series | Himself - Former NBA Player |
New Kids on the Block at Disney-MGM Studios: Wildest Dreams | 1991 | TV Special | Himself |
Good Sports | 1991 | TV Series | Himself |
CBS Schoolbreak Special | 1990 | TV Series | Himself |
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson | 1969-1990 | TV Series | Himself - Guest |
All-Star Tribute to Kareem Abdul-Jabbar | 1989 | TV Movie | Himself - Guest of Honor |
Troop Beverly Hills | 1989 | Himself | |
1989 NBA All-Star Game | 1989 | TV Special | Himself |
The Arsenio Hall Show | 1989 | TV Series | Himself |
21st NAACP Image Awards | 1989 | TV Special | Himself |
The NBA on CBS | 1988 | TV Series | Himself - Los Angeles Lakers Center |
Ebony/Jet Showcase | 1988 | TV Series | Himself |
1988 NBA All-Star Game | 1988 | TV Special | Himself |
Stingray | 1987 | TV Series | Himself |
1987 NBA All-Star Game | 1987 | TV Special | Himself |
Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color | 1986 | TV Series | Himself |
The New Hollywood Squares | 1986 | TV Series | Himself - Panelist |
1986 NBA All-Star Game | 1986 | TV Special | Himself |
The 7th Annual Black Achievement Awards | 1986 | TV Special | Himself |
All Star Rock 'n' Wrestling Saturday Spectacular | 1985 | TV Movie | Himself |
1985 NBA All-Star Game | 1985 | TV Special | Himself |
Pryor's Place | 1984 | TV Series | Himself |
Olympic Gala | 1984 | TV Special documentary | Himself - Guest |
ABC Afterschool Specials | 1984 | TV Series | Himself |
1984 NBA All-Star Game | 1984 | TV Special | Himself |
Professor Hope's Thanksgiving Campus Comedy Capers | 1983 | TV Movie | Himself |
1983 NBA All-Star Game | 1983 | TV Special | Himself |
1982 NBA All-Star Game | 1982 | TV Special | Himself |
1981 NBA All-Star Game | 1981 | TV Special | Himself |
Games People Play | 1980 | TV Series | Himself |
The Fish That Saved Pittsburgh | 1979 | Himself | |
The Visitor | 1979 | Himself (uncredited) | |
1979 NBA All-Star Game | 1979 | TV Special | Himself |
Dinah! | 1975-1977 | TV Series | Himself - Guest |
Laugh-In | 1977 | TV Series | Himself - Guest |
The Way It Was | 1977 | TV Series | Himself - Guest |
1977 NBA All-Star Game | 1977 | TV Special | Himself |
Cos | 1976 | TV Series | Himself |
1976 NBA All-Star Game | 1976 | TV Special | Himself |
1975 NBA All-Star Game | 1975 | TV Special | Himself |
1974 NBA All-Star Game | 1974 | TV Special | Himself |
Cavalcade of Champions | 1973 | TV Movie | Himself |
1972 NBA All-Star Game | 1972 | TV Special | Himself |
1971 NBA All-Star Game | 1971 | TV Special | Himself |
1970 NBA All-Star Game | 1970 | TV Special | Himself |
The Joey Bishop Show | 1968 | TV Series | Himself - Guest |
The Bob Hope Show | 1967 | TV Series | Himself |
Archive Footage
Title | Year | Status | Character |
---|---|---|---|
Inside Edition | 2016 | TV Series documentary | Himself |
O.J.: Made in America | 2016 | Documentary | Himself (as Lew Alcindor) |
Kobe Bryant's Muse | 2015 | TV Special documentary | Himself |
Media Buzz | 2014 | TV Series | Himself - Former NBA Player |
30 for 30 | 2014 | TV Series documentary | Himself |
Behind the Freedom Curtain | 2013 | Documentary | |
I Am Bruce Lee | 2012 | TV Movie documentary | Hakim (segment of Game of Death) |
Magic & Bird: A Courtship of Rivals | 2010 | TV Movie documentary | Himself |
Rome Is Burning | 2009 | TV Series | Himself |
Black Magic | 2008 | TV Mini-Series documentary | Himself |
Beyond the Glory | 2004 | TV Series documentary | Himself |
I Love the '70s | 2003 | TV Series documentary | Himself |
The Unbeatable Bruce Lee | 2001 | Video documentary | Himself |
Reflections on 'The Little Dragon' | 2001 | Video short | 5rd Floor Guardian Hakim (segment Game of Death) |
Bruce Lee in G.O.D.: Shibôteki yûgi | 2000 | Mantis | |
Bruce Lee: A Warrior's Journey | 2000 | Video documentary | Mantis |
Bruce Lee: The Legend Lives On | 1999 | TV Movie | Hakim (scenes Game of Death) |
The Critic | 1995 | TV Series | Kareem Abdul-Jabbar |
Bruce Lee's Jeet Kune Do | 1995 | Documentary | Himself / Hakim (scenes from Game of Death) (uncredited) |
Sing si lip yan | 1993 | Fighter on Film #2 in Ship's Theater (uncredited) | |
The Best of the Martial Arts Films | 1990 | Documentary | Himself |
NBA Awesome Endings | 1989 | Video documentary | Himself |
Game of Death | 1978 | Hakim Mantis (original 1972 footage) | |
The Real Bruce Lee | 1973 | Documentary | Hakim (uncredited) |
Bruce Lee: The Man and the Legend | 1973 | Documentary | Hakim [from "Game of Death"] (uncredited) |
Awards
Won Awards
Year | Award | Ceremony | Nomination | Movie |
---|---|---|---|---|
2013 | Image Award | Image Awards | Outstanding Documentary (Theatrical or Television) | On the Shoulders of Giants: The Story of the Greatest Team You Never Heard Of (2010) |
Source: IMDb, Wikipedia