Football great and actor Jim Brown, who starred in the locally filmed feature “tick… tick… tick…“ died Thursday at age 87.
Brown, and actors George Kennedy, and Frederic March spent several summer months of 1969 in Colusa, Yuba and Sutter Counties, filming exteriors and some interiors for this 1970 MGM release. Brown starred as a black sheriff’s candidate who won election in a southern town, defeating George Kennedy, who played the long time white sheriff.
The storyline brought both together in a scene that culminated at the bridge over the Wadsworth canal south of Sutter.
AP reports on his football career and life after football, a career he ended from the set of “Dirty Dozen” while acting on the film with Lee Marvin in London.
https://apnews.com/article/03d88c7da08840a0921ae8d8dd0a6aaa
