He was the patriarch in one of the first sitcoms with an all-Black cast and an enslaved African in the American South in a blockbuster TV mini-series.

Perhaps no bigger role was that of James Evans Sr., the husband of Esther Rolle’s Florida Evans and father of their three kids, on the CBS series, “Good Times.” The show, which ran from 1974-79, was set in an inner-city Chicago apartment located in the projects.

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.