Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

Award won Role or nomination

1. 1947 age 0

   Born

2. 1978 age 31

   CreditGame of Death

3. 1980 age 33

   CreditAirplane!

4. 2022 age 75

   CreditGlass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery

• MSMary Kate Schellhardt2 titles
• NDNora Dunn2 titles
• NLNatasha Lyonne2 titles
• GVGillian Vigman2 titles
• CHCheryl Hines2 titles
• CACraig Anton2 titles
• BPBrian Posehn2 titles
• JHJulie Hagerty2 titles
• JHJessica Henwick1 title
• SASam Anderson1 title

• It was my first time away from home, my first experience in an all-black situation, and I found myself being punished for everything I'd ever been taught was right. I got all A's and was hated for it; I spoke correctly and was called a punk. I had to learn a new language simply to deal with the threats. I had good manners, and was a good little boy and paid for it with my hide.

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, CC BY-SA 4.0

• I'm not comfortable being preachy, but more people have to start spending as much time in the library as they do on the basketball court. If they took to the idea that they could escape poverty through education, I think it would make a more basic and long-lasting change in the way things happen. When we set up unrealistic goals and then don't achieve them, that's another example of internalized defeat. What we need are positive, realistic ideas and the willingness to work. Hard work and practical goals.

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, CC BY-SA 4.0

• In Alan Moore’s brilliant graphic novel, Batman: The Killing Joke, the Joker justifies his psychopathic behavior by philosophizing that every human being is just "one bad day away" from rejecting the polite veneer of civilization's morality in the face of an indifferent universe. To him, we are all amoral sleeper agents awaiting the secret code word to awaken us to selfish violence.<br />Yet, even if the universe is indifferent, most people are not.

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, CC BY-SA 4.0

• Though movies (Taxi Driver for John Hinckley Jr., would-be assassin of Ronald Reagan), books (The Catcher in the Rye for Mark David Chapman, John Lennon's murderer) and songs ("Helter Skelter" for Tate-LaBianca murders mastermind Charles Manson) may articulate specific criminals acts, they don’t inspire the person's desire for violence. Science has proven that in numerous studies. It's tempting to blame movies, video games and rap music because they often express humanity's worst impulses, but impulses are not actions for most of us. And for the mentally ill seeking violence, anything can set them off. Alek Minassian, the self-described incel (involuntary celibate) who deliberately drove his van into a crowd in Toronto in 2018, killing 10 people, said he was motivated by his resentment toward women for having sexually rejected him in favor of giving "their love and affection to obnoxious brutes." Should we then demand that studios producing romantic comedies and publishers of romance n

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, CC BY-SA 4.0

• When Bruce closed the schools, he felt he was unburdening himself of having to prove through his students that his system had merit. He didn't want to get into that. He wanted them to evolve and teach, but It was not a thing where you have to teach what I taught. You have to teach what you learned and that's going to be more than what he taught, hopefully for those students that understood what he was doing.

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, CC BY-SA 4.0

Nationalities

United States

Height

218 cm

Eye colour

dark brown

Languages

English, American English

Years active

1969–1989

Education

Power Memorial Academy, University of California, Los Angeles