Johnny Brown

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John Brown (born June 11, 1937) is an American actor and singer.

Brown is a nightclub and stage performer as well as a comedic actor and a regular cast member of the television show Laugh-in.

Brown is best known for his chubby appearance, sweeping smile, mobile facial expressions, and a snailing joking style.

Brown is best known for his work as building superintendent Nathan Bookman on the 1970s CBS sitcom Good Times, although he is not widely known.

J. Evans, the show's main character, was often the brunt of fat jokes, as shown on the book's main character J. Evans (Jimmie Walker).

Before the series was cancelled in 1979, Brown portrayed Bookman.

Brown has appeared on numerous television shows, including The Flip Wilson Show, The Jeffersons, Family Matters, Sister, Sister, The Jamie Foxx Show, and Martin.

When he was a child in Harlem, Brown used to go to school with Walter Dean Myers. Brown, the father of actor Sharon Brown Brown, Jr., and also the father of John Brown Jr., Jr.; he appeared in the Broadway musical Golden Boy, starring Sammy Davis, Jr.; and was named as the lead voice on the show stopping rouser, "Don't Forget 127th Street." Brown appeared in a television commercial for the Write Brothers pen, a short-lived Papermate pen manufactured in the early 1970s.

The commercial was based on an elaborate musical number, "Write On, Brothers, Write On," directed by Brown as a schoolteacher who pleaded with his chorus group of students to use this pen for their school assignments. Brown was one of the first to make the compilation album Comedy Stew: The Best of Redd Foxx in 1997.

Brown tells how Norman Lear had wanted Brown to play Lamont in Sanford and Son but was unable to do so due to his earlier commitment to Laugh-In, leading Lear to hand over the role to Demond Wilson.

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Life and career

He began his early years as a regular cast member of the television show Laugh-in. Brown is best known for his portly physique, stunning smile, cell facial expressions, and a nimble, appealing joking style.

Brown appeared on The Flip Wilson Show, The Jeffersons, Family Matters, Sister, Sister, The Wayans Bros, and Martin. In the 1970s television series Good Times, Nathan Bookman appeared as a building superman. He appeared in the 1970 film The Out-of-Towners, starring Jack Lemmon and Sandy Dennis as a waiter on a subway dining car. When Brown was a youth in Harlem, New York City, he went to school with Walter Dean Myers.

Brown has also appeared in several television commercials, including ads for Hunt's Manwich and the Write Brothers pen, a short-lived Papermate pen brand sold in the 1970s. The product was based on an elaborate musical number, "Write On, Brothers, Write On," led by Brown as a schoolteacher who urged his chorus line of students to use this pen for their school assignments.

Brown appeared on the compilation album Comedy Stew: The Best of Redd Foxx in 1997. Brown explains in the introduction that Norman Lear had intended Brown to appear as Lamont in Sanford and Son but was unable to do so because of his prior commitment to Laugh-In, prompting Lear to hand over the role to Demond Wilson instead.

Brown appeared on two episodes of the Nickelodeon children's sitcom Kenan & Kellin 1999.

In the 2004 mockumentary The Old Negro Space Program, he played Wallace "Suitcase" Jefferson.

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