John Amos is Dead to Me

What a wonderful man!

Aw, just after Akim's Dad died.

Beat me to it, OP.

Shutter. Why are so many stars dying?

his son says "my father has transitioned".

I don't think he knows what that word means.

And Christ, we're really starting to get deep into mid-century television casts. Unreal.

R5 It meant exactly what the fuck he said before a certain group hijacked it. They also hijacked the plural form of a singular person.

He was great as the gay boyfriend of Stacy Keach in a story arc on Two and a Half Men.

[quote]Shutter. Why are so many stars dying?

Getting hit by shutters?

They’re dropping like flies.

If we have this many dying in October, imagine how many are going to drop in December (typically a prime month for deaths).

[quote]If we have this many dying in October, imagine how many are going to drop in December (typically a prime month for deaths).

He apparently died in August. It just didn't make the news until today.

God, if we could have something of the magnitude of the Debbie Reynolds, Carrie Fisher, and George Michael December 2016, I'll need to pre-order booze.

R4, I'm starting to think they're being Raptured up.

Loved him as General Fitzwallace, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs, in The West Wing

Legend. Rest in power, Mr. Amos.

I liked him, RIP

There was something so sexy about him in his younger roles.

R18 His insane bulge.

R19 Not just that. He had a perfectly masculine face with great bone structure. Why did they cast someone so old to be his wife on Good Times?

We just spoke to him after his brother Famous passed recently. What a tragedy to have them both gone in such a short amount of time.

I shutter at the thought of losing my shudders!

I remember him as Gordy on The Mary Tyler Moore Show

Ugh. I just started a duplicate thread. Sorry, OP. My bad!

[quote]Ugh. I just started a duplicate thread. Sorry, OP. My bad!

No worries - let's blame Muriel for the inadequate search feature and lack of edit/delete button...

He and Griffith should've done a show called "Amos & Andy."

I never realized how much of a stud he was until "Beastmaster."

I remember reading on Datalounge that John Amos was secretly gay and in the closet.

Is that true?

According to Wikipedia he died back in August. Also some people were being looked into for elder abuse.

Oh I see the deadline article does state that.

The last living member of the cast of The Mary Tyler Moore show. And if you say one word, Joyce, so help me!

[quote]The last living member of the cast of The Mary Tyler Moore show

Fuck you, r31.

I’ll never forget when those white devils cut off his roots as the older Kunta in Roots. They used to make us watch Roots every spring at my elementary school. It forever left a lasting impression on me on the horrors of slavery.

Crazy to think the entire cast of MTM has died:

Ted Knight was the first to go, in December 1986.

Next was Mary, who left us in January 2017.

Sweet Georgia Engel and feisty Valerie passed in 2019.

In 2021, they fell like dominos- Cloris, Gavin, Ed, and eventually Betty.

[quote]It forever left a lasting impression on me on the horrors of slavery.

It was a jobs program! Why do you hate America?

[quote]Also some people were being looked into for elder abuse.

Oh no, I hate to think of that happening to him.

(Or anyone of course but it somehow makes it worse when it's a man you had a thing for all your life.)

He had a hot ass, but he couldn't live forever.

Wow, two Good Times deaths in one week -- John Amos and Janet Jackson's career.

I would comment but I’m under the weather

I feel like he had a big dick

[quote] I feel like he had a big dick

James had a penis like the Florida peninsula.

[quote]I remember reading on Datalounge that John Amos was secretly gay and in the closet.

I remember reading on Datalounge that EVERY MALE WHO EVER LIVED was secretly gay and in the closet.

Only the hot ones.

James Evans seemed the type to get a blowjob from other guys on the downlow.

Lord knows that Florida Evans never gave him any.

Do these young snappers of whip not understand that the “dead to me” must be all-caps — DEAD TO ME — or else the deceased’s ghost cannot leave the earth to join the spirit world, and must haunt our mortal realm forever???

R6- Good Times was on television not mid century but late 20th century.

One of the ugliest mother fuckers of all time.

r45 Absolutely no one cares

This Friday, October 4, at 12:00 a.m. GMT, his fans across the world will simultaneously throw a punch bowl on the floor in his honor.

R48

.BBC Bathhouse Queen

R.I.P.

Susan?

Amos was cast as the Evans family's father in Good Times (1974) despite being only eight years older than Jimmie 'JJ' Walker, who portrayed oldest son J.J., and nearly nineteen years younger than Esther Rolle, who played his wife, Florida.

R38 😂.

Has Ralph Carter commented?

R56 I was just thinking that.

John Amos...Gordy the weatherman on The Mary Tyler Moore Show!

RIP

Susan Dey is working overtime not sending out condolences this week.

They're dropping like flies!

Sigh. It's only the kids left now with Esther Rolle and Ja'net DuBois gone. Why couldn't they have taken that asshole Jimmy Walker first?

He messaged me on Instagram. I just commented something silly. “Tough year for the MTM crew.” This was after Cloris Leachman and Ed Asner died. He messaged me because he he was confused by the MTM abbreviation. He was extremely kind.

He was on the Gilbert Gottfried podcast and was extremely fun.

I remember being a gayling watching Good Times reruns and I just staring at him. I couldn't take me eyes off him and would get annoyed when he wasn't in a scene.

I was totally in love with him even before I quite understood that I liked daddy types.

I must have jacked off to him 500 times.

Florida must have said "Damn,damn,damn!" every time James dropped his pants.

R56- He’s an aging homosexual.

R33- It forever left a lasting impression on me too- to the horrors of network television.

[quote] We just spoke to him after his brother Famous passed recently.

The thread on the death of Wally "Famous" Amos.

Who recalls the DL threads on Amos being on the down low and being a habitué of Manhattan bathhouses?

I do, r68.

Wheezy he never sucked my dick !

Sherman Hemsley, on the other hand, was gay.

Sadly Mexican-American Hollywood pioneer has passed. We have JLo on the line discussing their time together filming Selena.