John Amos is well-known for playing James Evans Sr. on 'Good Times,' which featured one of television’s first Black two-parent families.
John Amos at the 'Showing Roots' New York screening on May 17, 2016. Amos has died at age 84., which featured one of television’s first Black two-parent families. Produced by Norman Lear and co-created by actor Mike Evans, who co-starred on“That show was the closest depiction in reality to life as an African American family living in those circumstances as it could be,” Amos told Time magazine in 2021..
“The fact is that Esther’s criticism, and also that of John and others — some of it very pointed and personal — seriously damaged my appeal in the Black community,” Walker wrote in his 2012 memoirAfter three seasons of critical acclaim and high ratings, Amos was fired. He had become critical of the show’s white writing staff creating storylines that he felt were inauthentic to the Black characters.“There were several examples where I said, ‘No, you don’t do these things.
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