5. Brian Bosworth
Pro-Football Career: Three seasons in the NFL
Teams Played For: Seattle Seahawks

The Boz has always been a showman, and a show-off. His NFL career is remembered more for his bleached Mohawk hairdo and big mouth than any of his on-field exploits. Actually, he's mostly remembered for getting run over by Bo Jackson, but we won't get into that. While his career on the gridiron was short lived, the idea of an acting career began to percolate, largely after the strength of his very popular commercials as the face of Right Guard deodorant. His first foray into film was as Joe Huff, a detective who goes undercover to infiltrate a villainous biker gang in Stone Cold -- a certified Guy Movie classic! He’s since gone on to star in other B-movie action flicks, including a cameo as an evil prison guard in Adam Sandler’s remake of The Longest Yard. (DRINK!)

4. Jim Brown
Pro-Football Career: Eight seasons in the NFL
Teams Played For: Cleveland Browns

One of the greatest running backs of all time, Jim Brown first gained attention as a real actor in one of the greatest Guy war movies of all time, The Dirty Dozen -- a film he chose to finish filming at the sacrifice of his football career. He would later carve out his own corner in Blaxploitation cinema as the stoic, no nonsense Slaughter. Slaughter was never as cool as Shaft, or Hammer, but he wasn’t supposed to be. The driving purpose of the Slaughter character was to provide the genre with a hard-nosed badass, and it is at that that Mr. Brown more than succeeded. Jim would go on to guest star on television, and join forces with Fred “Hammer” Williamson (number 8 on the list) to revitalize the Blaxploitation genre with Original Gangstas. My personal favorite Jim Brown movie is Tim Burton’s Mars Attacks!, where he plays Byron, an ex-boxer turned Casino security guard.

3. Frank McRae
Pro-Football Career: One season in the NFL
Teams Played For: Chicago Bears

You might not know his name, but you’ll definitely know his face if you’ve been paying attention to Guy Movies for the last thirty years. He burst onto the seen as Reed Youngblood in Dillinger, and quickly parlayed the success of that role into many others. A man of literal mammoth proportions, Frank has made sure to show he’s more than just a brute giving noteworthy performances in family comedies like *Batteries Not Included and Vacation. He’s also the prototypical angry police captain, creating it in the Guy Movie classic 48 Hrs, and mocking it in another great Guy Movie, The Last Action Hero. Of everything I’ve seen this guy in, he’s never turned in a bad performance. My favorite performance by him has to be as Jim the foul-mouthed mechanic from Used Cars.