Jim Taylor (American football) Jim Taylor (American football) James Charles Taylor (September 20, 1935 – October 13, 2018) was an American football fullback who played professionally in the National Football League (NFL) for ten seasons, with the Green Bay Packers from 1958 to 1966 and with the expansion New Orleans Saints in 1967. With the Packers, Taylor was invited to five straight Pro Bowls and won four NFL championships, as well as a victory in the first Super Bowl. He was recognized as the NFL Most Valuable Player after winning the rushing title in 1962, beating out Jim Brown. An aggressive player and fluent
Jim Brown of Jacqueline Bisset. More typical was "El Condor" (1970), a Western shot in Spain by John Guillermin, also for National General. The release of "Shaft" (1971) led the rise of blaxploitation movies. Brown starred in several of the genre: "Slaughter" (1972), a huge hit for AIP; "Black Gunn" (1972) for Columbia; "Slaughter's Big Rip-Off" (1973); "The Slams" (1973), back at MGM; "I Escaped from Devil's Island" (1973); and "Three the Hard Way" (1974) with Fred Williamson and Jim Kelly. He did a spaghetti Western with Williamson, "Take a Hard Ride" (1975). The popularity of blaxploitation ebbed in the mid 70s