R.I.P. John Amos

[Shelbyville Manhattan]

Star of "Good Times," and, of course, the owner/manager of McDowell's, home of the "Big Mick."

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/john-amos-dead-good-times-roots-1236019054/

 

[Regan MacNeil]

RIP, Adm. Fitzwallace.

 

[BitterYoungMatador2]

One bad ass dude. Played football at Colorado State and wasn't afraid to tell a director to shove it.

 

[User 4332]

First James Earl Jones and now John Amos. Aresenio Hall needs to be on high alert.

 

[Baron Scicluna]

Damn, damn, damn. RIP

One of my favorite underrated movie scenes is in Coming To America when King Jaffe insults Lisa, causing her to leave the house, and Cleo refuses Jaffe’s multimillion dollar bribes and threatens to throw him out of the house.

 

[Webster]

I thought that he got killed in a car accident in Mississippi

 

[Webster]

Rough few months for the cast of Roots — James Earl Jones, Lou Gossett, OJ and now Amos

 

[Webster]

First James Earl Jones and now John Amos. Aresenio Hall needs to be on high alert.

Eriq LaSalle is in a bunker somewhere.

 

[TheSportsPredictor]

 

[BitterYoungMatador2]

 

[Monday Morning Sportswriter]

I swore John Amos died a couple years ago. Now I'm worried I'm watching too many West Wing reruns and am just still sad about the bombing.

 

[mpcincal]

Godspeed to James (Henry) Evans, Cleo McDowell, Adm. Percy Fitzwallace, Coach Sam Archer, Kansas City Mack, (older) Kunta Kinte, Gordie Howard, Ernie Cumberbatch, Fred Wilkes, Mayor Ethan Baker, and countless others.

Godspeed to an actor who, ever since I saw him in reruns of "Good Times," added a little more class and integrity to anything he was in regardless of the project's overall quality.

(Damn man, is the Grim Reaper real short of his quota at the deadline this week?)

 

[Della9250]

RIP, Adm. Fitzwallace.

 

[bumpy mcgee]

He's my kind of asshole.

 

[outofplace]

First James Earl Jones and now John Amos. Aresenio Hall needs to be on high alert.

One of those people is NOT like the others.

 

[outofplace]

I found out by seeing somebody post that scene on social media along with the news. RIP Fitz, you old so and so.

 

[garrow]

Also great on Psych. RIP.

 

[UPChip]

I swore John Amos died a couple years ago. Now I'm worried I'm watching too many West Wing reruns and am just still sad about the bombing.

Thinking of Michael Clarke Duncan, perhaps? He died in 2012.

 

[UPChip]

Fitzwallace was my single favorite character on that show. This scene with John Spencer (RIP) is a master class.



Another favorite:

FITZWALLACE
I promised Laura a month on a boat, kicking around the Caribbean for our honeymoon. 32 years later, I think her patience is starting to finally wearing a bit thin.

LEO
You sail?

FITZWALLACE
The last thing I captained weighed 7,000 tons. I should be able to figure out how to slip a 32-foot Catalina into a slip in Kingston.

 

[jr/shotglass]

I don't say this often, but I thought Amos had died a long time ago.

Fine actor. RIP.