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person_profile-Johnny Brown

Johnny Brown Died at age: 84

Actor | Producer

Fullname:

Johnny Brown

Date of Birth:

Jun 11, 1937

Country of birth:

USA

Died:

Mar 02, 2022

Biography of

Johnny Brown

    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.

Filmography of

Johnny Brown

Found 11 Movies in total

In Da Cut

Granddad ( Actor )

... 2013

Man in the Mirror

Wallace Jones ( Actor )

... 2008

I'm Through with White Girls

Sam Moore ( Actor )

... 2007

Lord Help Us

Cephas Thomas ( Actor )

... 2007

Town & Country

Chauffeur ( Actor )

... 2001

Jackie's Back!

Rev. Eustace Barnett (Pastor, Kinloch Baptist Temple) ( Actor )

... 1999

Hanky Panky

Bus Driver ( Actor )

... 1982

Body and Soul

Sports Announcer ( Actor )

... 1981

The Wiz

Aunt Em's Party ( Actor )

... 1978

The Out-of-Towners

Waiter in Train ( Actor )

... 1970

A Man Called Adam

Les ( Actor )

... 1966