John Amos: Roots, Good Times and The West Wing actor remembered

He notably objected to the growing prominence of the character of his son JJ, performed by Walker, who had the catchphrase “dyn-o-mite”.

“I felt an excessive amount of emphasis was being placed on JJ in his hen hat, saying ‘dy-no-mite!’ each third web page,” Amos recalled.

“I felt simply as a lot emphasis and mileage might have been gotten out of my different two kids, one in every of whom aspired to turn out to be a Supreme Court docket justice, performed by Ralph Carter, and the opposite, [played by] BernNadette Stanis, who aspired to turn out to be a surgeon.

“However I wasn’t probably the most diplomatic man in these days, and [the producers] acquired bored with having their lives threatened over jokes.

“In order that they stated, ‘Inform you what, why don’t we kill him off? We are able to get on with our lives!’

“That taught me a lesson – I wasn’t as necessary as I assumed I used to be to the present or to Norman Lear’s plans.”

Good Instances was tailored within the UK in 1976 as The Fosters, the primary British sitcom with an all-black forged.

Norman Beaton performed the daddy, with Lenny Henry in one in every of his early roles as one in every of his sons.

And earlier this yr, Good Instances was rebooted as an animated sequence by Netflix, which described it as a “non secular sequel” to the unique sitcom.