Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
Personal Info
Know For
Acting
Gender
Male
Birthday
1947-04-17 (78 years old)
Place of Birth
Harlem, New York City, New York, USA
Also known As
Lew Alcindor
Lewis Alcindor
Lewis Ferdinand Alcindor
Kareem Abdul-Jabaar
كريم عبدالجبار
Fredrick Ferdinand Lewis Alcindor Jr.
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
Biography
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar (born Ferdinand Lewis Alcindor Jr.; April 17, 1947) 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.
Acting
1980
as Roger Murdock
2007
as Sin
1978
as Hakim
2023
as Self
1994
2009
2023
as Self (archive footage)
2000
1979
as Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
1998
as Comentador
2010
2022
as Self - Narrator (voice)
1995
as Self
2023
as Fifth Floor Fighter (archive footage)
1987
2016
as Self (archive footage)
1995
as Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
1990
as Self (archive footage)
2000
as Himself / Hakim
1995
as Self
1974
as Hakim / Mantis
2022
as Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
1990
as Self (archive footage)
2015
as Self
1985
as Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
1995
as Archangel
1998
as Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
1989
as Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
1989
as Man at Sal's House
1994
as Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
2008
as Self
2009
as Self
1986
as Himself
2015
as Self (archive footage)
1989
as Los Angeles Lakers
2020
as Self - Student / Friend
1993
as Self
2011
as Self - Narrator
2019
as Mantis, the 5th Floor Guardian
2018
as Self
2020
as Self - Narrator (voice)
1996
2020
as Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
2007
as P.J.
2006
as Hank
1998
as (archive footage) (uncredited)
2013
as Himself
2001
as Self (archive footage)
Production
2011
as Writer
2022
as Executive Producer
1994
as Producer
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