{"id":1011691,"date":"2022-03-05T16:24:11","date_gmt":"2022-03-05T16:24:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/03\/05\/good-times-actor-johnny-brown-dead-at-84\/"},"modified":"2022-03-05T16:24:11","modified_gmt":"2022-03-05T16:24:11","slug":"good-times-actor-johnny-brown-dead-at-84","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/03\/05\/good-times-actor-johnny-brown-dead-at-84\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Good Times&#8217; actor Johnny Brown dead at 84"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"slide-image-container\">\n    <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"width: 100%;\" width=\"975\" height=\"650\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Good-Times-actor-Johnny-Brown-dead-at-84.jpg\" title=\"'Good Times' actor Johnny Brown dead at 84\" alt=\"'Good Times' actor Johnny Brown dead at 84\"\/>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"stph_caption\">Left to right, Ja&#8217;net Dubois, Johnny Brown, BernNadette Stanis, Norman Lear, Jimmie Walker and Ralph Carter &#8212; celebrate at the 2006 TV Land Awards where their sitcom &#8220;Good Times&#8221; was honored. Brown has died at the age of 84. File Photo by Jim Ruymen\/UPI | License Photo<\/div>\n<article itemprop=\"articleBody\">\n<p><span class=\"story_dl\">March 5 (UPI) &#8212;<\/span> Johnny Brown, who played building super Nathan Bookman on the beloved 1970s sitcom <i>Good Times<\/i>, has died, his family announced. He was 84.<\/p>\n<p>His daughter, Sharon Catherine Brown, announced the news on Instagram Friday.\n<\/p>\n<\/article>\n<p>&#8220;Johnny Brown June 11, 1937 &#8211; March 2, 2022. Our family is devastated. Devastated. Devastated. Beyond heartbroken,&#8221; she wrote.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Barely able to breathe. We respectfully ask for privacy at this time because we need a minute to process the unthinkable. To articulate the depths of profound sadness.This is my mom&#8217;s husband for sixty one years, mine and JJ&#8217;s dad, Elijah and Levi&#8217;s Pop Pop, older brother to George and brother in law to Pat and extended family to Chris, Hihat, Damian and Derell. It&#8217;s too terrible. It will never not be. It&#8217;s a shock. He was literally snatched out of our lives. It&#8217;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.&#8221;\n<\/p>\n<p>Johnny Brown was also a cast member of <i>The Leslie Uggams Show<\/i> and <i>Rowan &amp; Martin&#8217;s Laugh-In<\/i>, and appeared in the Broadway shows <i>Carry Me Back to Morningside Heights <\/i>and <i>Golden Boy<\/i>.\n<\/p>\n<p>His film credits included <i>A Man Called Adam<\/i>, <i>The Wiz, Hanky Panky, Life <\/i>and <i>Town &amp; Country<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p>He also was a popular guest star on shows such as <i>Julia, Maude, The Rookies, Lotsa Luck!, The Jeffersons, Archie Bunker&#8217;s Place, Family Matters, Sister, Sister, Moonlighting<\/i> and <i>Martin<\/i>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"slide-image-container\" onclick=\"st_ss_sh114();\">\n\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Notable-Deaths-of-2022_1_1.jpg\" style=\"width: 100%;\" width=\"645\" height=\"431\"\/><\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"stph_caption\">Actress Sally Kellerman attends the premiere of &#8220;Grandma&#8221; in Los Angeles in 2015.  Known for roles including Maj. Margaret &#8220;Hot Lips&#8221; Houlihan in the 1970 &#8220;MASH&#8221; movie and for her role in &#8220;Brewster McCloud,&#8221; Kellerman died February 24 after suffering with dementia. She was 84. Photo by Jim Ruymen\/UPI | License Photo<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script async defer src=\"https:\/\/platform.instagram.com\/en_US\/embeds.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Left to right, Ja&#8217;net Dubois, Johnny Brown, BernNadette Stanis, Norman Lear, Jimmie Walker and Ralph Carter &#8212; celebrate at the 2006 TV Land Awards where their sitcom &#8220;Good Times&#8221; was honored. Brown has died at the age of 84. File Photo by Jim Ruymen\/UPI | License Photo March 5 (UPI) &#8212; Johnny Brown, who played [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1011692,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1011691","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrity-gossip"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1011691","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1011691"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1011691\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1011691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1011691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1011691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}