John Amos Net Worth

John Amos's Quotes

• There are three stages in an actor's career: Who is John Amos? Get me John Amos. Get me a young John Amos.
• I love my work and am grateful to God to have a profession that brings joy to so many.
• They killed my character off and, as God would have it, just when they told me I would never work again I got cast in a little program called Roots (1977) and, as they would say, the rest is history.

Interesting Facts about John Amos

1. Father of K.C. Amos and Shannon Amos.
2. Son of John Amos Sr..
3. Quit Good Times (1974) over complaints directed at him, by fans and friends, that the show was not a pleasant portrait of African-American life and somewhat insulting. To explain his absence from the show, his character on was killed in a car accident, ensuring his choice to leave was permanent. Unknown to Amos at the time of his resignation from the Good Times cast, but he was almost immediately cast in a little show named Roots (1977).
4. He was spotted observing one of the trials of mobster John Gotti.
5. Amos was cast as the Evans family's father in Good Times (1974) despite being only eight years older than Jimmie Walker, who portrayed oldest son J.J., and nearly nineteen years younger than Esther Rolle, who played his wife, Florida. This was not unusual in African-American comedies in the 1970s produced by Norman Lear. In The Jeffersons (1975), Sherman Hemsley, who portrayed husband George, was about twenty and one half years younger than Isabel Sanford, who portrayed wife Louise.
6. Played college football at Colorado State University.
7. Played professional football for the Norfolk Neptunes in the late 1960's
8. Was also a social worker (he headed New York's Vera Institute of Justice) and an advertising copywriter prior to pursuing a career as an actor.
9. Has also written comedy material for television and performed stand-up comedy in New York City's Greenwich Village.
10. Amos was once a Golden Gloves boxing champion.
11. According to the Chinese calendar, he was born in the Year of the Rabbit.
12. Although he played Leslie Uggams's father in Roots (1977), he is only three years her senior in real life.
13. Signed a free agent contract with the American Football League's Kansas City Chiefs but was later strongly urged by Head Coach Hank Stram to pursue his heart as a writer.
14. Friends with Bea Arthur and Louis Gossett Jr..
15. He was inducted into the 2019-2020 Class of New Jersey Hall of Fame in the Arts and Entertainment category.