John Amos Net Worth is
$100,000

Mini Biography

A native of NJ and son of the auto mechanic, African-American John Amos has relied on his imposing build, eruptive character and solid, forceful looks to acquire acting careers, and a significant desire to have better assignments to earn a satisfying put in place the history of film and Television. He has discovered it a continuing uphill battle to help expand himself within an sector that will diminish an actor’s abilities with serious and/or demeaning stereotypes and easy pigeonholing. A hardcore, often hot-headed man with a relatively tender aspect, John would be successful greater on stage than on film and Television…with one incredibly noteworthy exceptions. Born on Dec 27, 1939, John was initially employed as an marketing copywriter, a public employee at New York’s Vera Institute of Justice, and an American and Canadian semi-professional soccer player before getting his contacting as an professional. A stand-up comic over the Greenwich Community circuit, the task eventually had taken him Western world and, ultimately, resulted in his employing as an employee article writer on Leslie Uggams’ musical range display in 1969. Producing his legit stage debut inside a 1971 L.A. creation of the humor “Norman, IS THE FACT THAT You?”, John continued to earn a LA Crisis Critics nomination for “Ideal Actor”. Therefore, he shaped his own theatre company and created “Norman, IS THE FACT THAT You?” on tour. The next year he returned to NY to consider his first Broadway bow in “Tough To Get Help”. By this time around he had guaranteed secondary focus on the traditional Mary Tyler Moore (1970) as Gordy the weatherman. His personality continued to be on the periphery, nevertheless, and he remaining the display after three discouraging months. On the shiny side, he received the recurring part from the sporadically-unemployed spouse of maid Florida Evans (performed by Esther Rolle) on Norman Lear’s Maude (1972) starring Bea Arthur. Both characters had been spun-off to their personal popular series because the parental prospects in MEMORIES (1974). MEMORIES (1974), a family group sitcom that occurred inside a Chicago ghetto high-rise, initially prided itself being the 1st network series ever to become developed by African-Americans. But following episodes were bought out by others and John was progressively disgruntled by having less quality from the scripts as well as the path Lear was acquiring the display. Once centered on the significance of family ideals, it was moving increasingly more toward the ridiculous antics of Jimmie Walker, who was simply learning to be a runaway strike on the display because the aimless, egotistical, jive-talking teenage child JJ. John started frequently clashing using the higher-ups and, by 1976, premiered from your series, along with his personality being killed within an off-camera car crash while finding work from state. Amos rebounded quickly when he won the Emmy-nominated part from the adult Kunte Kinte within the ground-breaking epic mini-series Origins (1977), probably one of the most powerful and reverential Television features ever going to television. It had been THE TV part of his profession, but he discovered other quality functions for other dark actors extremely hard to come across. He attempted his better to steer clear of the dim-headed lugs and crime-motivated personas that emerged his way. Plus a few parts (the mini-movie Willa (1979) as well as the movies The Beastmaster (1982) and Arriving at America (1988)), he previously to withstand the mediocre (visitor areas on “Appreciate Fishing boat”, “The A-Team”, “Murder, She Wrote” “One Lifestyle to reside”). John also toiled through several action-themed movies that focused even more on grit and testosterone than skill. He found a single response to this performing dilemma for the proscenium stage. In 1985, the play “MOMENT” gained him the NAACP Award simply because Best Professional. He also received great reviews within a Berkshire Movie theater festival creation of “The Young boys NEARBY”, a tour of O’Neill’s towering play “The Emperor Jones”, and in a Detroit creation of Athol Fugard’s “Get better at Harold…as well as the Boys”. Furthermore, John aimed two well-received productions, “Miss Reardon Beverages just a little” and “Twelve Angry Guys”, within the Bahamas. He got on Shakespeare as Sir Toby Belch in “Twelfth Evening” at Joseph Papp’s NY Shakespeare and gained solid notices in the past due August Wilson’s Pulitzer Prize-winning play “Fences” at the administrative centre Repertory Business in Albany, NY. Abroad he received plaudits for his appearance within a heralded creation of “THE LIFE SPAN and Death of the Buffalo Soldier” in the Bristol’s Aged Vic in Britain. Capping his theatrical profession was the 1990 inaugural of his one-man display “Halley’s Comet”, an amusing and humanistic American trip into the existence of the 87-year-old who recalls, among other activities, World Battle II, the fantastic age group of radio, the first civil rights motion, as well as the sighting from the Comet when he was 11. He published and it has regularly directed the display, which is constantly on the play in to the 2007-2008 season. Lately, John has enjoyed continuing parts on “The West Wing” and “The District”, and it is recently appearing within the offbeat series Men in Trees and shrubs (2006) starring Anne Heche. John Amos offers two kids by his previous wife Noel Amos and two kids. Child K.C. Amos movie director, writer, maker, editor and child Shannon Amos a movie director, writer and maker. Amos offers one grand kid,a grand-daughter, Quiera Williams.

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Quick Facts

Full Name	John Amos
Date Of Birth	December 27, 1939
Height	1.81 m
Weight	79 kg
Profession	Screenwriter, Stand-up comedian, Musician, Film producer, Social Worker, Football player, Playwright, Soldier, Theatrical producer, Actor, Copywriter
Education	Heidelberg University
Nationality	American
Spouse	Lillian Lehman, Noel J. Mickelson
Children	K.C. Amos, Shannon Amos
Parents	Annabelle P. Amos, John Amos Sr.
Facebook	http://www.facebook.com/officialjohnamos
Awards	TV Land Impact Award, TV Land Anniversary Award, TV Land Groundbreaking Show Award
Nominations	Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actor in a Drama Series, NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series
Movies	Coming to America, Die Hard 2, The Beastmaster, Lock Up, Madea's Witness Protection, Dr. Dolittle 3, The World's Greatest Athlete, Let's Do It Again, Two Evil Eyes, The Players Club, Bad Ass 3: Bad Asses on the Bayou, Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song, American Flyers, Dance of the Dwarfs, Hologram Man, The Watermelon Heist, Voodoo Moon, Disappearing Acts, Zombie Hamlet, Bonanza: The Next Generation, Ricochet, Night Trap, Shadowboxing, Countdown, Against Time, Mac, Without a Pass, The Law
TV Shows	Good Times, Roots, The Mary Tyler Moore Show, Hunter, Men in Trees, 704 Hauser, Future Cop, All About the Andersons, The Funny Side