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John Amos, who scored an Emmy information for TV bid Roots and starred successful drama movie Coming To America other Eddie Murphy, has died astatine the property of 84, according to US reports.
The US histrion died connected August 21 successful Los Angeles of earthy causes, according to Variety magazine.
Amos changeable to fame successful the 1970s erstwhile helium played Gordy Howard, the weatherman connected The Mary Tyler Moore Show, which led to his relation arsenic household patriarch James Evans Sr successful the Norman Lear sitcom Good Times.
Actor John Amos played Toby, the older mentation of Kunta Kinte, successful Roots (Gus Ruelas/AP)
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He went connected to represent Toby, the older mentation of Kunta Kinte, successful the groundbreaking miniseries Roots.
Amos scored his lone Emmy information for his relation successful the 1977 bid which depicted the atrocities of slavery.
The sprawling formed included Louis Gossett Jr arsenic Fiddler, Ben Vereen arsenic Chicken George, and LeVar Burton arsenic the young Kunta Kinte.
“I knew that it was a life-changing relation for me, arsenic an histrion and conscionable from a humanistic standpoint,” Amos told Time magazine.
“It was the culmination of each of the misconceptions and stereotypical roles that I had lived and seen being offered to me. It was similar a reward for having suffered those indignities.”
Over a decennary later, Amos starred arsenic Cleo McDowell successful Coming To America, who hires an African prince, played by Murphy.
Other starring roles included Admiral Percy Fitzwallace, president of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, connected US play The West Wing.
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