Brown went to the Pro Bowl in 1962, 1963, and 1965. He is the only player in Philadelphia history to return a kickoff for a touchdown (105 yards), and the only Eagle (and the first of nine NFL players ever) to return two kickoffs (90- and 93-yarders) for touchdowns in the same game. He led the league twice in all-purpose yards, in 1962 and 1963 with 2,306 and 2,428 yards, respectively. He also led the league in kick returns and return yards twice, in 1961 and 1963.[6]
During his football career, he was mainly known as Timmy Brown.
Brown also served as a color analyst for CBS NFL telecasts in 1973.
Acting career
Brown used the name "Timothy Brown" as an actor, to more clearly distinguish himself from Jim Brown, the Cleveland Browns running back who also became an actor.
Brown's acting career began while he was still an active player, with a guest appearance on the Season 3 premiere of The Wild Wild West as Clint Cartwheel in the episode titled "The Night of the Bubbling Death", which originally aired on September 8, 1967.
After retiring from the NFL, he became a full-time actor, appearing in such films as MASH (1970), Sweet Sugar (1972), Black Gunn (1972), Bonnie's Kids (1973), Girls Are for Loving (1973), Dynamite Brothers (1974), Nashville (1975), Zebra Force (1976), Black Heat (1976), Gus (1976) and Midnight Ride (1990). He also appeared in a half-dozen episodes of the first season of the M*A*S*H television series as Dr. Oliver Harmon "Spearchucker" Jones, but was dropped from the show. While it was reported that was due to the producers learning there were no African American surgeons serving in Korea during the Korean War, the producers said it was due to not feeling they could come up with meaningful stories involving that character when they were concentrating on writing stories about the characters Hawkeye and Trapper John.[8] Along with Gary Burghoff, G. Wood, and Corey Fischer, he is one of only four actors who appeared in both the original MASH movie and the spin-off television series.
He made three guest appearances in the 1960s–1970s TV show Adam-12 and appeared in a Season 1 episode of The Mary Tyler Moore Show.
Music
1960s
Brown began singing when he was attending Ball State College. He also took up tap dancing.[9]
In 1962, Brown recorded with Imperial Records (Travis Music Co. & Rittenhouse Music, Inc.) "I Got Nothin' But Time" and "Silly Rumors".[10][11][12] The songs were written by N. Meade and V. McCoy and produced and arranged by Jerry Ragavoy.[13][14]
In addition to appearing in the 1975 film Nashville, his vocals appeared on the soundtrack.[17][18]
Brown made a brief appearance on a 1970 episode of The Mary Tyler Moore Show ("Keep Your Guard Up"), opposite guest star and previous MASH co-star John Schuck. Both played retired NFL players vying for a job as sportscaster.
^Robert Altman's Soundtracks: Film, Music, and Sound from M*A*S*H to A Prairie Home Companion, By Gayle Sherwood Magee CHAPTER, A New Hollywood Musical –