The Golden Age of Hollywood may not have been diverse but pioneering Black actors like James Edwards, Juanita Moore and Butterfly McQueen are notable.
Clarence Williams III (August 21, 1939 – June 4, 2021) was an American actor. He played the character of Linc Hayes in the police television series The Mod Squad from 1968 to 1973. He also appeared in films such as Purple Rain , 52 Pick-Up , Tales from the Hood , Hoodlum , Half Baked , Life , American Gangster and Reindeer Games .
Moses Gunn (October 2, 1929 – December 16, 1993) was an American actor of stage and screen. An Obie Award -winning stage player, he is an alumnus of the Negro Ensemble Company . His 1962 off-Broadway debut was in Jean Genet 's The Blacks, and his Broadway debut was in A Hand is on the Gate, an evening of African-American poetry. He was nominated for the 1976 Tony Award for Best Actor in a Play for his performance in The Poison Tree , and he also played Othello on Broadway in 1970. For his screen performances, Gunn is best known for his roles as Clotho in WUSA (1970), Bumpy Jonas in Shaft (1971) and Joe on Little House on the Prairie (1977-1981).
Good Times is an American television sitcom that aired for six seasons on CBS , from February 8, 1974, to August 1, 1979. Created by Eric Monte and Mike Evans and developed by executive producer Norman Lear , it was television's first African American two-parent family sitcom. Good Times is a spin-off of Maude , which itself is a spin-off of All in the Family , making Good Times the first television spin-off from another spin-off. The first two episodes are notable for their strong, liberal, sociopolitical stance, representing an attitude of 1970s progressivism.
The Jeffersons is an American sitcom television series that was broadcast on CBS from January 18, 1975, to July 2, 1985, lasting 11 seasons and a total of 253 episodes . The Jeffersons is one of the longest-running sitcoms in history, the second-longest-running series with a primarily African American cast by episode count and the first to prominently feature a married interracial couple.
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