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John Allen Amos Jr.[1] (December 27, 1939 – August 21, 2024) was an American actor. He was best known for his role as the adult Kunta Kinte in the landmark miniseries Roots and for portraying James Evans Sr. on the CBS television series Good Times. His other television work includes The Mary Tyler Moore Show, a recurring role as Admiral Percy ...
Episodes of Good Times deal with the characters' attempts to overcome poverty, living in high-rise public housing in Chicago. James Evans often works at least two jobs, mostly manual labor such as dishwasher, construction laborer, etc. Though he is often unemployed, he is a proud man who will not accept charity.
October 2, 2024 at 5:05 PM. John Amos’s cause of death has been confirmed, just over a month after he died on August 21 aged 84. The Good Times actor died from congestive heart failure at a Los ...
Amos later starred as James Evans Sr on the CBS comedy Good Times for three seasons before his character was killed off in the two-part 1976 season four premiere.
Though John Amos was an established actor by the time he landed the role of James Evans Sr. on Good Times, the star truly found his stride in the role.. Costarring Esther Rolle, Jimmie "JJ" Walker ...
Amos, who was 84, played stern but loving patriarch James Evans in Good Times, one of the first sitcoms about a black family, from 1974. ... Good Times was adapted in the UK in 1976 as The Fosters ...
January 28, 1974. An old friend of James, who is now a shady televangelist (Roscoe Lee Browne), stops by the Evans apartment and offers James a job that would pay $100 a day. James is set to take it, but Florida is against James accepting the job, believing it goes against his morals and values. 5. 5.
Amos, who starred as the older Kunta Kinte in the acclaimed 1977 miniseries and James Evans Sr. on Norman Lear's classic 1970s CBS sitcom "Good Times" died on Aug. 21 in Los Angeles of natural ...