Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
Harlem, New York City, New York, USA

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar (born Ferdinand Lewis Alcindor Jr.) 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. NBA coach Pat Riley and players Isiah Thomas and Julius Erving have called him the greatest basketball player of all time. Abdul-Jabbar has also been an actor, a basketball coach, a best-selling author, and a martial artist, having trained in Jeet Kune Do under Bruce Lee.

Top 10 collaborators

Roles

Match
Game of Silence (2024)
Fifth Floor Fighter
The Iceman (2023)
Self
Stand (2023)
Self (archive footage)
Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery (2022)
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
A Choice of Weapons: Inspired by Gordon Parks (2021)
Self
John Bronco (2020)
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
Be Water (2020)
Self - Student / Friend
Game of Death Redux (2019)
Mantis, the 5th Floor Guardian
1968 (2018)
Self
O.J.: Made in America (2016)
Self (archive footage)
Kareem: Minority of One (2015)
Self
Kobe Bryant's Muse (2015)
Self (archive footage)
On the Shoulders of Giants (2011)
Self - Narrator
The Rally to Restore Sanity and/or Fear (2010)
Self
How Bruce Lee Changed the World (2009)
Self
Kobe Doin' Work (2009)
Self
The Black List: Volume One (2008)
Himself
I Tried (2007)
Sin
Los Angeles Lakers: 1984-1985 NBA Champions Return To Glory (2007)
Himself
Weapons (2007)
P.J.
Whitepaddy (2006)
Hank
Bruce Lee in G.O.D. (2000)
Himself / Hakim
BASEketball (1998)
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
Jackie Chan: My Story (1998)
(archive footage) (uncredited)
Los Angeles Lakers: '87 The Drive For Five (1998)
Himself
Rebound: The Legend of Earl 'The Goat' Manigault (1996)
Self
The Journey of the African-American Athlete (1996)
Self
Slam Dunk Ernest (1995)
Archangel
Forget Paris (1995)
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
D2: The Mighty Ducks (1994)
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
Bruce Lee: The Immortal Dragon (1994)
Self
All New Dazzling Dunks and Basketball Bloopers (1990)
Self (archive footage)
Hoodwinked (1989)
Man at Sal's House
Detroit Pistons: 1988-1989 NBA Champions - Motor City Madness (1989)
Los Angeles Lakers
Troop Beverly Hills (1989)
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
Ask Max (1986)
Himself
All-Star Rock 'N' Wrestling Saturday Spectacular (1985)
Self
Fletch (1985)
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
Airplane! (1980)
Roger Murdock
The Fish That Saved Pittsburgh (1979)
Self
Game of Death (1978)
Hakim
The Game of Death (1974)
Hakim / Mantis

Crew

On the Shoulders of Giants (2011)
Writer
The Vernon Johns Story (1994)
Producer