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Johnny Brown

Actor · 1937 – 2022 · St. Petersburg, Florida, USA

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia John "Johnny" Brown (born June 11, 1937) was an American actor and singer. Brown was a nightclub and stage performer as well as a comic actor, and a regular cast member of the television series Laugh-in. Brown is mostly remembered for his chubby physique, wide ingratiating smile, mobile facial expressions, and easy pleasant joking style. Brown is most famous, however, for his role as building superintendent Nathan Bookman on the 1970s CBS sitcom, Good Times. Bookman was often the brunt of fat jokes via the show's main character J. J. Evans (Jimmie Walker). Brown portrayed Bookman until the series was cancelled in 1979. Other television shows Brown has appeared on include Flip Wilson Show, The Jeffersons, Family Matters, Sister, Sister, The Jamie Foxx Show and Martin. Brown also used to go to school with Walter Dean Myers when he lived in Harlem as a boy. Brown is also the father of actress Sharon Brown,[citation needed] who was born in 1962, and also the father of John Brown Jr. or J.J Brown Jr. Brown had earlier established himself in the Broadway musical Golden Boy, starring Sammy Davis, Jr.; his supporting role was in the part of Ronnie and was featured as the lead voice on the show stopping rouser, "Don't Forget 127th Street". In the early 1970s, Brown starred in a television commercial for the Write Brothers pen, a short-lived product of the Papermate pen company. The commercial consisted of an elaborate musical number, "Write On, Brothers, Write On", led by Brown as a schoolteacher who encourages his chorus line of students to use this pen for their school assignments. In 1997, Brown contributed his voice to the introduction of the compilation album Comedy Stew: The Best of Redd Foxx. In the introduction, Brown tells of how Norman Lear had considered Brown to play the role of Lamont in Sanford And Son, but was unavailable to do so because of his prior commitment to Laugh-In, leading Lear to give the role to Demond Wilson instead.

Series24

  • TV7.5
  • TV7.2

    Touched by an Angel

    1994 · 188 votes

  • TV6.2

    Love, American Style

    1969 · 21 votes

  • TV6.8

    Family Matters

    1989 · 371 votes

  • TV7.3

    The Jeffersons

    1975 · 130 votes

  • TV7.5

    Moonlighting

    1985 · 417 votes

  • TV7.5

    Martin

    1992 · 140 votes

  • TV7.8

    Night Gallery

    1970 · 112 votes

  • TV7.0

    Sister, Sister

    1994 · 134 votes

  • TV6.7

    The Jamie Foxx Show

    1996 · 38 votes

  • TV6.9

    The Rookies

    1972 · 22 votes

  • TV6.7

    Hangin' with Mr. Cooper

    1992 · 38 votes

  • TV8.0

    The Parkers

    1999 · 37 votes

  • TV6.8

    Alvin and the Chipmunks

    1983 · 83 votes

  • TV6.8
  • TV8.1

    Kenan & Kel

    1996 · 408 votes

  • TV8.0

    Good Times

    1974 · 86 votes

  • TV7.1

    The Parent 'Hood

    1995 · 14 votes

  • TV6.9

    227

    1985 · 44 votes

  • TV7.2

    The Wayans Bros.

    1995 · 70 votes

  • TV4.8

    The Flip Wilson Show

    1970 · 20 votes

  • TV6.5

    Archie Bunker's Place

    1979 · 24 votes

  • TV7.2

    Punky Brewster

    1984 · 100 votes

  • TV6.7

    Gimme a Break!

    1981 · 31 votes

Movies14

  • Movie6.7

    Life

    1999 · 907 votes

  • Movie6.2

    The Wiz

    1978 · 329 votes

  • Movie5.3

    Hanky Panky

    1982 · 72 votes

  • Movie6.8

    The Out-of-Towners

    1970 · 147 votes

  • Movie6.5

    A Man Called Adam

    1966 · 17 votes

  • Movie4.5

    Town & Country

    2001 · 88 votes

  • Movie6.9

    Jackie's Back!

    1999 · 9 votes

  • Movie6.5
  • Movie3.9

    Body and Soul

    1981 · 12 votes

  • Movie3.7

    Lord Help Us

    2007 · 6 votes

  • Movie
  • Movie6.0

    Man in the Mirror

    2008 · 2 votes

  • Movie9.0
  • Movie