Skip to main content
O. J. Simpson

O. J. Simpson

Actor · 1947 – 2024 · San Francisco, California, USA

Orenthal James Simpson (July 9, 1947 – April 10, 2024) was an American football player, actor, and broadcaster. He played in the National Football League (NFL) for 11 seasons, primarily with the Buffalo Bills, and is regarded as one of the greatest running backs of all time. Once a popular figure with the American public, Simpson's professional success was later overshadowed by his trial and controversial acquittal for the murders of his former wife Nicole Brown and her friend Ron Goldman in 1994. Simpson played college football for the USC Trojans, where he won the Heisman Trophy as a senior, and was selected first overall by the Bills in the 1969 NFL/AFL draft. During his nine seasons with the Bills, Simpson received five consecutive Pro Bowl and first-team All-Pro selections from 1972 to 1976. He also led the league in rushing yards four times, in rushing touchdowns twice, and in points scored in 1975. In 1973, he became the first NFL player to rush for more than 2,000 yards in a season, earning him NFL Most Valuable Player (MVP), and is the only NFL player to do so in a 14-game regular season. Simpson holds the record for the single-season yards-per-game average at 143.1. After retiring with the San Francisco 49ers in 1979, Simpson pursued an acting and broadcasting career. He was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame in 1983 and the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 1985. In June 1994, Simpson was arrested and charged with the murders of Brown and Goldman. He was acquitted in a lengthy and internationally publicized trial, but found liable for the deaths three years later in a civil suit from the victims' families. Prior to his death, Simpson had paid little of the $33.5 million judgment (equivalent to $64 million in 2023). In 2007, Simpson was arrested in Las Vegas, Nevada, and charged with armed robbery and kidnapping. In 2008, he was convicted and sentenced to 33 years' imprisonment, with a minimum of nine years without parole. He served his sentence at the Lovelock Correctional Center near Lovelock, Nevada. He was granted parole in July 2017, released from prison in October, and granted early release from his parole in December 2021 by the Nevada Division of Parole and Probation. He died in 2024 at the age of 76 from prostate cancer. Description above from the Wikipedia article O. J. Simpson, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Movies24

  • Movie7.3
  • Movie6.8
  • Movie6.5
  • Movie7.0

    The Towering Inferno

    1974 · 1.1K votes

  • Movie6.8

    Capricorn One

    1977 · 528 votes

  • Movie6.2

    The Cassandra Crossing

    1976 · 239 votes

  • Movie6.3

    Bamboozled

    2000 · 164 votes

  • Movie5.9

    Back to the Beach

    1987 · 47 votes

  • Movie7.8
  • Movie8.4

    O.J.: Made in America

    2016 · 268 votes

  • Movie5.5

    No Place to Hide

    1992 · 16 votes

  • Movie5.4

    Killer Force

    1976 · 19 votes

  • Movie5.6

    The Klansman

    1974 · 44 votes

  • Movie
  • Movie5.0

    C.I.A. Code Name: Alexa

    1992 · 33 votes

  • Movie4.0
  • Movie5.0

    Firepower

    1979 · 30 votes

  • Movie4.3

    Cocaine and Blue Eyes

    1983 · 4 votes

  • Movie5.9

    Student Exchange

    1987 · 14 votes

  • Movie8.0
  • Movie5.8
  • Movie6.6

    Elway

    2025 · 19 votes

  • Movie7.0
  • Movie5.6

    Goldie and the Boxer

    1979 · 5 votes

Series24

  • TV7.5
  • TV6.9

    Saturday Night Live

    1975 · 528 votes

  • TV5.8

    The Mike Douglas Show

    1961 · 11 votes

  • TV6.1
  • TV6.8

    The Merv Griffin Show

    1962 · 12 votes

  • TV6.8

    Ironside

    1967 · 71 votes

  • TV6.3

    Panorama

    1953 · 14 votes

  • TV7.0

    The Name of the Game

    1968 · 13 votes

  • TV6.4

    Medical Center

    1969 · 14 votes

  • TV6.8

    The Ed Sullivan Show

    1948 · 23 votes

  • TV6.7

    Here's Lucy

    1968 · 31 votes

  • TV6.5
  • TV7.0

    Dragnet

    1967 · 23 votes

  • TV4.3

    Entertainment Tonight

    1981 · 27 votes

  • TV8.1
  • TV7.3
  • TV7.2

    It Takes a Thief

    1968 · 26 votes

  • TV8.3

    Dark Side of the Ring

    2019 · 63 votes

  • TV7.9
  • TV6.3

    1st & Ten

    1984 · 12 votes

  • TV7.3
  • TV
  • TV7.4

    Roots

    1977 · 252 votes

  • TV6.7