“It is with sincere sadness that I share with you the news of my father’s passing,” said his son Kelly Christopher Amos, among other things, in a statement to the media. For example, an American website quoted him Variety.
John Amos was born on December 27, 1939 in Newark, New Jersey. He was involved in sports from an early age, he also established himself as a boxer and American football player, he even played several matches in the top league there.
He began to actively pursue acting in 1970, when he won the role of meteorologist Gordon “Gordy” Howard in the Czech Republic in the relatively unknown program The Mary Tyler Moore Show.
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John Amos
Czech viewers can then remember him from the role of the caring father of Prince Akeem’s future companion in the comedy Road to America, in which Eddie Murphy excelled, or from the role of Major Grant from the film Deadly Trap 2.
He also appeared in a number of TV series, such as Two and a Half Men, Walker Texas Ranger, Men in Trees and My Name is Earl. During his long career, he played hundreds of roles in films and on television, without exaggeration, although rather smaller and medium, according to the British daily The Guardian.
Although he mainly enjoyed retirement in recent years, he did not resist work. The last project in which his name appears is the American sci-fi film Devotion (2024).
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