'Good Times' actor Johnny Brown has died at age 84.
in a 1996 interview. “I wanted to be a well-rounded, complete entertainer; I didn’t just want to sing or tell a joke.”on Broadway, he got Brown a gig as Godfrey Cambridge’s understudy.
But then Cambridge began bickering with director Arthur Penn. “In those days, a big thing for a comedian was an album. Likeand Richard Pryor and those guys, if an album sold, they could make big concert money,” Brown said. Cambridge couldn’t “get out of a contract, so he started arguing every day until two days before opening for previews.”
That’s when Cambridge was fired. Brown took over as Ronnie and took the lead on the show-stopping number “Don’t Forget 127th Street” asBrown made his film debut portraying a blind pianist in the Davis-starring dramaco-star Ja’Net DuBois also was in that — and returned to Broadway in 1968 for, directed by Sidney Poitier. Despite a cast that featured Cicely Tyson, Diane Ladd, Louis Gossett Jr. and David Steinberg, the comedy lasted but a week..
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