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.

A day after beloved “Good Times” and “Roots” actor John Amos death was announced, his daughter Shannon Amos, 57, revealed she learned of his death through the media.