LEGENDARY actor John Amos has died 84, his publicist has confirmed.
Amos starred as the father on the hit 1970s sitcom Good Times and earned an Emmy nomination for his role in the seminal 1977 miniseries Roots.
Actor John Amos has died aged 84[/caption]
John Amos starred as James Evans, the father in sitcom Good Times[/caption]
H also played Admiral Percy Fitzwallace in the first five seasons of hit US political show The West Wing.
Amos played James Evans Sr. on Good Times, which featured one of televisions first Black two-parent families.
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.
Amos left the show following disagreements of its portrayal of African Amerians in the later seaosns.
He then landed the role of an adult Kunta Kinte, the centerpiece of Roots, based on Alex Haleys novel set during and after the era of slavery in the US.
The miniseries was a critical and ratings blockbuster, and Amos earned one of its 37 Emmy nominations.
He told Time: “I knew that it was a life-changing role for me, as an actor and just from a humanistic standpoint.
“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.”
Amos acted in five seasons of The West Wing[/caption]
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