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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 .
John Amos, the Emmy-nominated actor known for his roles on ABC's groundbreaking miniseries "Roots" and "Good Times," has died.He was 84. Amos, who starred as the older Kunta Kinte in the acclaimed ...
Actor John Amos, left, who portrayed the adult Kunta Kinte in the television miniseries "Roots," with then-Maryland Gov. Parris Glendening in 1999, during a dedication ceremony for a memorial to ...
Actor John Amos, known for his roles in the acclaimed miniseries "Roots" and the CBS sitcom "Good Times," has died. ... In 1977, he played adult Kunta Kinte in "Roots," a landmark miniseries that ...
John Amos, the actor known for his role as the family patriarch on the hit sitcom “Good Times” and the adult Kunta Kinte in the famed original miniseries “Roots,” has died, according to a ...
Kunta Kinte (/ ˈ k uː n t ɑː ˈ k ɪ n t eɪ / KOON-tah KIN-tay; c. 1750 – c. 1822) is a fictional character in the 1976 novel Roots: The Saga of an American Family by American author Alex Haley. Kunta Kinte was based on one of Haley's ancestors, a Gambian man who was born around 1750, enslaved, and taken to
Amos, who starred as the older version of Kunta Kinte in the acclaimed miniseries "Roots" and James Evans Sr. on the classic sitcom "Good Times," died on Aug. 21 in Los Angeles of "natural causes ...
John Amos, the actor who played James Evans Sr. on 'Good Times,' adult Kunta Kinte on 'Roots' and Cleo McDowell in 'Coming to America,' has died. He was 84.