I’d been a truck driver, a garbage man," he told the graduates.
Many fans consider him their TV father.
He lived a good life.
John Amos in 2015.Craig Barritt/Getty
His legacy will live on in his outstanding works in television and film as an actor."
You are a young man who happens to be playing football."
“They never felt that necessary onMary Tyler Moore.
John Amos on ‘Good Times’.CBS via Getty
They didn’t write down to anybody, and I loved them for that.
‘‘They wanted to be heard.’’
(He even reunited with Lear in 1994 for the short-lived CBS comedy704 Hauser.)
(“I’m anoldBlack man and I wait on the president,” Fitzwallace quipped.)
“He opened the door, he looked at me and said, ‘Percy Fitzwallace?
What kind of name is that for a brother?'”
Amos told the Archive of American Television in 2015.
“He had me on that.”
In addition to his son, Amos is survived by his daughter, producer Shannon Amos.
Amos was married a second time, to actress Lillian Lehman, from 1978 to 1979.
“I love to laugh.
