With a reported IQ of 160, Lundgren attended MIT on a Fulbright Scholarship after earning a master's in chemical engineering in Australia. I did not know who Lundgren was. He played the Russian boxer in a Rocky movie.
Like Jim Brown discovered, Hollywood pays very well.
The Dirty Dozen was a commercial success and helped Brown land the lead in The Split, a 1969 movie that earned him a $125,000 paycheck – twice what he was making each season toward the end of his Cleveland Browns career.
More starring roles followed, including 100 Rifles with Burt Reynolds and Raquel Welch in 1969. He had nearly 20 more roles to his credit within a decade, followed by a steady stream of television roles. His most recent movie appearance came in Draft Day with Kevin Costner in 2014.
