Before he retired from his career in the NFL, the running back began taking acting roles, appearing first in an episode of Medical Center in 1969. Over the years, he appeared in films as varied as The Towering Inferno, The Klansman, and The Naked Gun franchise, as well as the legendary TV mini-series Roots. Months before the double murder of ex-wife Nicole Brown Simpson and her friend Ron Goldman, he'd starred in the NBC pilot Frogmen. Naturally, his trial for the murders, of which he was eventually acquitted, derailed those plans.

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