He played in popular TV series, but also in action movies such as “Die Hard 2”.Picture: keystone
He played in popular TV series, but also in action movies like “Die Hard 2”. The death of the popular US actress has now been reported.
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John Amos, the Emmy-nominated television writer and actor, who played, among other things, the role of the stoic father in the sitcom “Good Times,” has died. He was 84 years old. Amos died of natural causes in Los Angeles on August 21, as his son KC Amos announced in a mobile statement.
“It is with great sadness that I inform you that my father has left us,” wrote KC Amos. “He was a man full of kindness and a heart of gold… He was loved all over the world. Many fans consider him to be their TV dad. He had a good life. His legacy will live on in his great work in television and film as an actor.”
Amos was initially focused on a career as a football player. He played football successfully at Colorado State University in the 1960s and even went to training camps with the Denver Broncos and the Kansas City Chiefs in the American Football League, the highest division of American football at the time.
Amos: Comics inspired his imagination
In a video shared by the Kansas City Chiefs on social media a few years ago, Amos said he was “a little better than the average high school football player.” “All I wanted to do my whole life was play professional football,” the actor said. “I thought this was the best way for me to escape the economic situation we seemed to be trapped in.”
John Amos was born on December 27, 1939 in Newark, New Jersey, in humble circumstances. His father drove a semi-truck and worked as a mechanic, his mother Annabelle was a housekeeper who eventually went back to school and trained to become a nutritionist. His mother cleaned the house of a cartoonist who drew comics, which Amos soon came into contact with. “It sparked my imagination,” he once said.
In the early 1970s, he began his career in show business with guest appearances on The Bill Cosby Show and The Mary Tyler Moore Show. The first supporting roles in feature films followed.
He also starred in popular German series such as “The A-Team”, “Two and a Half Men” and “Murder is their Hobby”. Since the 1980s, Amos has also appeared in mainstream cinema, including in “Beastmaster”, “The Prince of Zamunda” and the action blockbuster “Die Hard 2”. The actor received an Emmy nomination for his performance in the hit ABC series “Roots” in 1977, and Amos also had a recurring role as Admiral Percy Fitzwallace on the NBC series “West Wing”.
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