Esther Rolle (Florida Evans) passed away in 1998 at the age of 78. Johnny Brown (Nathan Bookman) passed away in 2022 at the ...

Lead actors like Esther Rolle and Ja'net DuBois created iconic characters that resonated with audiences. The passing of cast ...

ADVERTISEMENT John Amos (as James Evans, Sr.) and Esther Rolle (as Florida Evans) in Good Times. Amos well well-known for playing Gordy the weatherman on The Mary Tyler Moore Show, Admiral Percy ...

When I interviewed actress Esther Rolle during her Boston run in a Huntington Theatre production of Lorraine Hansberry’s “A Raisin in the Sun,” as someone who first saw her in the 1970s ...

worked with Esther Rolle's Florida Evans to keep their kids on track. It didn't hurt that this new kind of TV family lived in what appeared to be Chicago's Cabrini-Green housing project ...

In 1974, CBS debuted Good Times, where Amos and Esther Rolle played James and Florida Evans, parents struggling to keep their kids’ heads above water in a Chicago housing project. After he was ...

Amos was known for playing Florida Evans’ (Esther Rolle) husband James in Good Times, which spun off of Maude, and for playing Gordy Howard the weatherman on The Mary Tyler Moore Show ...

“Damn! Damn! Damn!” the actress Esther Rolle, who played Evans’s wife, Florida, famously lamented while mourning his death. “Good Times” rumbled on for another three seasons without its ...

His character, along with wife, Florida, played by Esther Rolle, originated on another Lear show, “Maude.” James Evans often worked two manual labor jobs to support his family that included ...