The ceremony was held two days before John's daughter Shannon is set to host her own event to honor her father Friends and family of John Amos are remembering his legacy. Amos’ loved ones ...

Related: John Amos looks back on The West Wing ... who informed then-28-year-old Amos, "Young man, you are not a football player. You are a young man who happens to be playing football." ...

John Amos Shares He Is 'Not in ICU ... "We're calling it America's Dad because so many young men have come up to me and said, 'Your father was my father,'" K.C. tells PEOPLE.

“Suffice it to say we are still family, and we love each other, and that's the bottom line," John Amos said less than a year before he died Liza Esquibias is an Editorial Intern at PEOPL ...

John Amos, who starred as the family patriarch on the hit 1970s sitcom ''Good Times" and earned an Emmy nomination for his role in the seminal 1977 miniseries ''Roots,'' has died. He was 84.

John Amos earned three letters for head coach Bill Richards as a member of the Ball State University men’s tennis team from 1991-94. Amos was one of only three student-athletes in school history to ...