Actor Johnny Brown who played the affable housing project superintendent Nathan Bookman on Good Times passed away at age 84.
His daughter actress Sharon Catherine Brown posted the sad news on her Instagram page, the New York Post reports.
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“Our family is devastated. Devastated. Devastated. Beyond heartbroken. Barely able to breathe. We respectfully ask for privacy at this time because we need a minute to process the unthinkable,” she said in the caption of a picture of her father smiling wearing gold-colored rimmed glasses.
“To articulate the depths of profound sadness.This is my mom’s husband for sixty one years, mine and JJ’s dad, Elijah and Levi’s Pop Pop, older brother to George and brother in law to Pat and extended family to Chris, Hihat, Damian and Derell. It’s too terrible. It will never not be. It’s a shock. He was literally snatched out of our lives. It’s not real for us yet. So there will be more to say but not now. Dad was the absolute best. We love him so very much,” she added.
Johnny appeared on the Laugh-In comedy sketch show for three seasons in the early 1970s and then joined the Norman Lear produced show Good Times in 1975, playing the lackadaisical superintendent Bookman. The popular show centered around a Black family living in poverty in the housing projects of Chicago. The series tackled racism, classism and the perspective of being Black in America.
Johnny appeared on the short-run show until the network canceled it in 1979.
Born in St. Petersburg, Florida, in 1937 and raised in Harlem, New York, Johnny gravitated towards the arts and ended up on Broadway, singing with bands and recording songs, eventually securing his first TV role, Entertainment Weekly reports.
