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John Amos

Actor

Born - 27 December 1939, Newark, New Jersey, USA
Died - 21 August 2024

Big, beaming Afro-American character player and second lead who looked as though he was made of teak and provided tough but mostly benevolent characters on films and TV for more than 50 years: Vanishing Point (1970), Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song (1971), The World's Greatest Athlete (1973), Let's Do It Again (1975), Cops and Robin (1978), Touched by Love (1980), The Beastmaster (1982), American Flyers (1985), Coming to America (1988), Lock Up (1989), Die Hard 2 (1990), Ricochet (1991), Mac (1992), Night Trap (1993), For Better or Worse (1995), The Players Club (1998), All Over Again (2001), The Watermelon Heist (2003), Dr Dolittle 3 (2006), American Lowrider (2010), Zombie Hamlet (2012), Act of Faith (2014), Huntsville (2016), Uncut Gems (2019), Coming 2 America (2021), Block Party (2022), The Last Rifleman (2023), his last, and many more. He died from congestive heart failure.