John Amos, the actor known for his role as the family patriarch on the hit sitcom "Good Times" has died age 84.
John Amos, the actor known for his role as the family patriarch on the hit sitcom "Good Times" and the adult Kunta Kinte in the famed original miniseries "Roots," has died, according to a his longtime publicist Belinda Foster. He was 84.
Born and raised in East Orange, New Jersey, Amos found his first passion in sports after he fell in love with football and played at Colorado State University. "All I ever wanted to do all my life was to play pro football," Amos said in the clip. "I figured that was going to be the best way for me to escape the economic strata we seemed to be locked into."John Amos starred in the hit Norman Lear series "Good Times."
Bit parts on other hit 1970s television shows including "Love American Style," "Sanford and Son" and "The New Dick Van Dyke Show" would follow. "I felt like I knew more about what a Black family should be and how a Black father would act than our writers, none of whom were Black," Amos said at the time. "Their idea of what a Black family should be and what a Black father would be was totally different from mine, and mine was steeped in reality."
"I knew that it was a life-changing role for me, as an actor and just from a humanistic standpoint," he told Time magazine in 2021. "It was the culmination of all of the misconceptions and stereotypical roles that I had lived and seen being offered to me. It was like a reward for having suffered those indignities."The "Roots" role reunited him with actress Leslie Uggams, for whom he had written on her short-lived CBS variety series in the late 1960s.
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