John Amos
John Amos (December 27, 1939 – August 21, 2024) was an American actor and retired football player. He is best known for his role as the adult Kunta Kinte in the landmark miniseries "Roots" and for portraying James Evans Sr. on the CBS television series "Good Times." He was nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award and an NAACP Image Award. On film, he played numerous supporting roles in movies such as "The Beastmaster" (1982), "Coming to America" (1988), "Lock Up" (1989), "Die Hard 2" (1990) and "Coming 2 America" (2021).
Prior to acting, he played on the Colorado State Rams football team and in 1964, he signed a free agent contract with the American Football League's Denver Broncos and in 1967 signed a free agent contract with the American Football League's Kansas City Chiefs. Both of these contracts did not land him a spot on the teams and played a final season in the Continental Football League with the Victoria Steelers before pursuing acting.
| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 0.02 |
| Birthday | 1939-12-27 |
| Place of Birth | Newark, New Jersey, USA |
| Also Known As | Jon Amos, Johnny Amos, John A. Amos Jr., |
1990
Die Hard 2
6.957/5932
One year after his heroics in Los Angeles, John McClane is an off-duty cop who is the wrong guy in the wrong place at the wrong time. On a snowy Chris...
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2020
The Truth About Santa Claus
2/1
A man does not want children but after a “run-in” with Santa finds the true “gift” of Christmas.
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1971
Vanishing Point
7.2/466
Kowalski works for a car delivery service, and takes delivery of a 1970 Dodge Challenger to drive from Colorado to San Francisco. Shortly after pickup...
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Vanishing Point
1991
Ricochet
6.1/328
An attorney is terrorized by the criminal he put away years ago when he was a cop.
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Ricochet
1973
The World's Greatest Athlete
5.3/28
Stuck with a feeble sports department, college coach Sam Archer (John Amos) faces the ax unless he can reverse the school's athletic fortunes. An Afri...
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1988
Coming to America
6.882/4415
An African prince decides it’s time for him to find a princess... and his mission leads him and his most loyal friend to Queens, New York. In disguise...
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Coming to America
1989
Lock Up
6.814/1220
Frank Leone is nearing the end of his prison term for a relatively minor crime. Just before he is paroled, however, Warden Drumgoole takes charge. Dru...
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Lock Up
1975
Let's Do It Again
6.9/22
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Let's Do It Again
1990
Two Evil Eyes
6.122/286
A duo of Edgar Allan Poe adaptations about a greedy wife's attempt to embezzle her dying husband's fortune, and a sleazy reporter's adoption of a stra...
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Two Evil Eyes
1982
The Beastmaster
6.295/407
Dar, is the son of a king, who's hunted by a priest after his birth and grows up in another family. When he becomes a grown man, his new father is mur...
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The Beastmaster
2006
Dr. Dolittle 3
5.1/451
Lisa Dolittle sends her daughter to 'Durango', a Dude Ranch, to find herself. While there, she uses her talent to talk to the animals in order to save...
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Dr. Dolittle 3
2005
Shadowboxing
5.4/69
Artem Kolchin was one of many, but he wanted glory. And he has chosen the way: he became the boxer. Now Artem the applicant for a champion title, figh...
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2004
Countdown
6.1/14
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2012
Madea's Witness Protection
6.1/180
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Madea's Witness Protection
2007
All Over Again
5/1
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All Over Again
2012
Zombie Hamlet
5.5/10
Desperate filmmaker Osric Taylor dreams of making his civil war Hamlet but when production funding dries up, he agrees to take southern matron Hester...
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1995
For Better or Worse
4.6/5
A comic love triangle wherein a loser falls in love with his recently-married brother's wife.
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For Better or Worse
1973
The President's Plane Is Missing
6.2/6
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Devotion
0/0
A pastor bumps into an old trainer and begins boxing after his wife retires from MMA fighting.
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1983
Dance of the Dwarfs
4/7
An anthropologist and an alcoholic helicopter pilot discover a race of predatory reptile men in the jungles of South America.
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2022
Block Party
6.1/5
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2013
American Lowrider
5.6/5
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American Lowrider
1980
Touched by Love
4.6/7
A teenager with cerebral palsy attempts to become pen pals with her idol, Elvis Presley.
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1978
Cops and Robin
6/1
A veteran street cop and his partner, a robot programmed to be the perfect policeman, are assigned to protect the five-year-old daughter of the widow...
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Cops and Robin
2022
Me Time
5.9/917
With his family away, a devoted stay-at-home dad enjoys his first me time in years by joining his hard-partying old friend on a wild birthday adventur...
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Me Time
2019
Uncut Gems
7.156/4854
A charismatic New York City jeweler always on the lookout for the next big score makes a series of high-stakes bets that could lead to the windfall of...
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Uncut Gems
2015
Bad Asses on the Bayou
6.1/142
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1993
Night Trap
4.1/12
A New Orleans cop tries to track down and stop a vicious and demonic killer whom has sold his soul to the devil for invulnerability and immortality.
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Night Trap
2003
The Watermelon Heist
1/1
To make money fast the Browns come up with a plan to win a contest for "Watermelon Juice Afro Sheen," awarding $10,000 to whoever can find the juicies...
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The Watermelon Heist
1986
Shark's Paradise
6/2
A mad man threatens to lure hundreds of sharks to the beach at Surfers Paradise Australia at the start of the tourist season, his price to hold off th...
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Shark's Paradise
1980
Alcatraz: The Whole Shocking Story
4.5/3
Filmed on location at Alcatraz Island, this two-part "whole story" actually concentrates on a handful of the denizens behind the cold grey walls of "T...
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Countdown
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2023
The Last Rifleman
6.6/65
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2007
Ascension Day
0/0
A drama focused on Nat Turner and the 1831 slave rebellion in Virginia.
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2021
Christmas in Miami
0/0
Akpos jets off with his family to the exotic city of Miami, Florida to represent Nigeria at the Intercontinental Christmas Fiesta, which is a unifying...
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1988
Bonanza: The Next Generation
7.5/2
This is the continuing saga of the Cartwrights, only none of the original Cartwrights are here anymore but their sons. Ben and Hoss have passed on, an...
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1976
Future Cop
5/1
A veteran street cop is assigned a new partner. The partner is not exactly what he seems to be, though--he is an experimental android who has been pro...
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1971
Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song
5.2/100
After saving a Black Panther from some racist cops, a black male prostitute goes on the run from "the man" with the help of the ghetto community and s...
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Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song
2000
Something to Sing About
6.056/9
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2016
Norman Lear: Just Another Version of You
7/12
Arguably the most influential creator, writer, and producer in the history of television, Norman Lear brought primetime into step with the times. Usin...
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Norman Lear: Just Another Version of You
2015
Mary Tyler Moore: A Celebration
10/1
Not only did Mary Tyler Moore “turn the world on with her smile,” as her show’s theme song declared, she also influenced a generation of women to beco...
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1995
Hologram Man
4.1/18
Five years after the mad terrorist Slash Galagher was sentenced to holographic stasis, he is given a parole hearing. But an equipment failure engineer...
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Hologram Man
1997
The Rockford Files: Shoot-Out at the Golden Pagoda
5.8/5
After a quiet fishing trip, Rockford is tricked into taking over a fellow PI's case involving alleged Police misconduct, which lands him in the hospit...
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2014
Act of Faith
5.667/3
After the death of his beloved wife, Mr. Brady struggles to maintain a neighborhood diner in Atlanta Georgia. His few faithful waitresses have become...
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Act of Faith
2006
Voodoo Moon
3.9/11
Voodoo Moon takes place in the mid-west United States, where a demonic figure murders the entire population of a small town, save for one young boy an...
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Voodoo Moon
2015
Mercy for Angels
0/0
Runaway Tracy is snatched from a dangerous L.A. neighborhood by sadistic thugs while searching for her homeless boyfriend. Her police detective mom ra...
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Mercy for Angels
2004
TV in Black: The First Fifty Years
4/1
Discover how television has reflected the African American experience in this retrospective of the medium's first half-century. Actors, writers and hi...
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1985
American Flyers
6.2/117
When Dr. Marcus Sommers realizes that he and his troubled, estranged brother David may be prone a fatal brain disease that runs in their family, he de...
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American Flyers
2000
Disappearing Acts
6.5/38
A struggling construction worker and an aspiring musician find themselves falling in love.
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Disappearing Acts
1992
Mac
5.8/29
Niccolo "Mac" Vitelli is the eldest of three brothers in 1950s Queens. Mac is a construction builder, a trade he learned from his late father, and hel...
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Mac
2004
My Baby's Daddy
4.7/55
A trio of young men are forced to grow up quick when their girlfriends all become pregnant around the same time.
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My Baby's Daddy
1979
Willa
3/1
A truck-stop waitress, determined to make a better life for her young children after being abandoned by her husband, leaves hash-slinging behind her t...
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Willa
2021
Coming 2 America
6.4/2256
Prince Akeem Joffer is set to become King of Zamunda when he discovers he has a son he never knew about in America – a street savvy Queens native name...
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2019
Live in Front of a Studio Audience: "All in the Family" and "Good Times"
6.1/13
Live performances of classic holiday-themed episodes from Norman Lear's hit shows "All in the Family" and "Good Times."
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1998
The Players Club
6.3/80
Single mother Diana struggles to provide for her child and pay for her college education. When she meets two dancers from a nearby gentlemen's club, D...
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The Players Club
2019
Christmas Belles
2.3/3
Despite being successful in their careers, two 30-something BFFs never stop hearing that they both need a man before it's too late. When a handsome pa...
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Christmas Belles
2015
Tamales and Gumbo
0/0
A beautiful Latina and a lovable African-American try to survive the crazy cultural clashes between their families, as their wedding day nears.
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Tamales and Gumbo
2020
The Beastmaster Chronicles
0/0
Documentary about the making of the film The Beastmaster.
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The Beastmaster Chronicles
2021
Because of Charley
3/2
Two estranged stepfamilies reluctantly gather at a Central Florida home for an anniversary party, fully intending to keep the visit brief - but Hurric...
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Future Cop: Cops and Robin
0/0
To protect his former partner's widow, a veteran cop teams up with an android to keep her safe.
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