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Johnny Brown
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 acto…
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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.
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2013
In Da Cut
Movie Granddad
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2008
Man in the Mirror
Movie Wallace Jones
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2007
I'm Through with White Girls
Movie Sam Moore
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2007
Lord Help Us
Movie Cephas Thomas
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2004
The Old Negro Space Program
Movie Wallace 'Suitcase' Jefferson
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2002
Baby Bob
TV show Eddie
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2001
Town & Country
Movie Chauffeur
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1999
The Parkers
TV show
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1999
Jackie's Back!
Movie Rev. Eustace Barnett (Pastor, Kinloch Baptist Temple)
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1999
Life
Movie Blind Reverend Clay
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1996
The Jamie Foxx Show
TV show Mr. Hartnabrig
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1996
E! True Hollywood Story
TV show
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1996
Kenan & Kel
TV show Uncle Louie
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1995
The Parent 'Hood
TV show
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1995
The Wayans Bros.
TV show Maurice
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1994
Touched by an Angel
TV show Johnny Brown
More credits
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1994
On Our Own
TV show Mr. Terwilliger
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1994
Sister, Sister
TV show Smitty
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1992
Hangin' with Mr. Cooper
TV show Mr. Martz
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1992
Out All Night
TV show Man at Reunion
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1992
Martin
TV show Chubby
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1989
Family Matters
TV show Pastor Fuller
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1985
227
TV show
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1985
Moonlighting
TV show Sam the Piano Player
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1984
Punky Brewster
TV show Chuck
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1983
Alvin and the Chipmunks
TV show (voice)
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1982
Hanky Panky
Movie Bus Driver
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1981
Gimme a Break!
TV show
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1981
Body and Soul
Movie Sports Announcer
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1979
Archie Bunker's Place
TV show
- 1979
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1979
Rickety Rocket
TV show Splashdown
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1979
The T.V. Show
Movie The Kingfish
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1978
The Wiz
Movie Aunt Em's Party
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1976
Monster Squad
TV show Dandy Andy
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1975
The Jeffersons
TV show
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1974
Good Times
TV show Nathan Bookman
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1973
Lotsa Luck
TV show Ronnie
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1972
The Rookies
TV show
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1970
Night Gallery
TV show Man with Stake (segment "How to Cure the Common Vampire")
