John Amos is DEAD TO ME

I'm glad it's not John Stamos!

Geez, people are dropping like flies.

What's going on.

As we used to say around these parts, he had a hot ass, but he couldn't live forever.

Damn, damn, damn! He was a FINE man!

My hunger for BBC started with that man and his VPL.

He was a nice guy.I remember on Good Times he had big crotch bulge in his brushed corduroy pants.

He outlived me by more than 25 years ...

But I think you were still the same age when you died, Esther

He actually died close to a month and a half ago. Unsure what’s up with that.

There’s a lot of fighting going on about his estate and who should have been his caretaker. I suspect that had something to do with it, R 9.

R10 is right. His son KC seemed to be his primary caretaker and he’s in some kind of battle with his sister.

RIP, Mr. McDowell

So by releasing his date of death to the public today, his son has some kind of advantage over his sister I’m guessing in terms of John’s estate and maybe didn’t tell his sister when he died all along?

I hope glass punch bowls were flung down in hysterical grief across the width and breadth of America today.

He presented some fine VPL on that show.

Grown up Kunta Kinte. RIP.

So now most of the MTM cast members are dead 😵

I thought he had died years ago for some reason. Watching reruns of Good Times in the early 90s as an adolescent, I think he fueled my interest in "daddies."

[quote]So now most of the MTM cast members are dead

I think the only one left is Robbie Rist, who went from playing the annoying 'Cousin Oliver' on The Brady Bunch, to playing the equally annoying adopted son David (to Georgette and Ted) on 'The Mary Tyler Moore Show'.

[quote]He actually died close to a month and a half ago. Unsure what’s up with that.

Apparently, he died only days after Wally Amos, the cookie magnate, so maybe John’s death was eclipsed by that of the more famous Amos.

True story: before he became a cookie entrepreneur, Wally Amos was an agent at William Morris, and represented John Amos at one point.

And the two dads from Coming to America died within a months of each other.

I saw him on the street near Astor Place some years back, dressed in a matching silk pajama sort of outfit. I lingered to eavesdrop on his phone call. He tossed his cigarette and said, "Yeah, baby, so what's going on out on the coast?"

He seemed like a total baller.

In the early Aughts he was living on a houseboat in Mexico with his decades younger girlfriend. Total baller is right.

It was very strange yesterday. My husband texted me that John Amos had died. And I said why are you telling me now, wasn't that like months ago. He said someone we follow had just posted on their instagram. I was thinking she must have it wrong. I looked up wikipedia and said yeah, it says he died August 21st. And I thought I was justified. Then only to find out it had just been announced yesterday, that not even his own daughter knew that he died. How did I know for a fact that he died weeks ago when the only other person was his son? Very odd. And I am not confusing him with James Earl Jones. I know the difference.

He died on August 21st, but kept ballin’ til October 1st.

R26 You can say that again.

Has Jimmy Walker, Ralph Carter or Bern' adette Stanis commented on the actor's death ?