{"id":29087,"date":"2022-03-05T13:23:43","date_gmt":"2022-03-05T18:23:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=29087"},"modified":"2022-03-05T13:23:43","modified_gmt":"2022-03-05T18:23:43","slug":"rip-johnny-brown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=29087","title":{"rendered":"RIP: Johnny Brown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2022\/z030522rip_johnnybrown.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"373\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Johnny Brown, actor and singer, died on March 3, 2022, at the age of 84.\u00a0 No cause of death was reported.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Mr. Brown began his career as singer.\u00a0 He toured with Sam &#8220;the man&#8221; Taylor.\u00a0 In 1961, Johnny Brown released an album of his own.\u00a0 Sammy Davis Jr. became a mentor to Johnny Brown and this led to Brown&#8217;s role in <em>Golden Boy<\/em> on Broadway.\u00a0 His first movie role was in Sammy Davis&#8217; film,<em> A Man Named Adam<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Johnny Brown was a regular on <em>Rowan &amp; Martin&#8217;s Laugh-In<\/em>.\u00a0 His contract on<em> Laugh-In<\/em> prevented him from accepting the role of Redd Fox&#8217;s son on<em> Sanford &amp; Son<\/em>.\u00a0 After <em>Laugh-In<\/em>, Mr. Brown was a regular on <em>Good Times<\/em>,\u00a0 Other major appearances include the shows: <em>Love American Style, Night Gallery, Maude, Chico and the Man, Gimme a Break, Archie Bunker&#8217;s Place, The Jeffersons, Fantasy Island<\/em> and <em>Family Matters<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Johnny Brown always made me smile.\u00a0 I&#8217;ll miss seeing him pop-up in surprising places.<\/p>\n<p>Our thoughts and prayers go out to Johnny Brown&#8217;s family, friends and fans.<\/p>\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Johnny Brown, actor and singer, died on March 3, 2022, at the age of 84.\u00a0 No cause of death was<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,54,57,50],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29087","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-celebs","category-movies","category-rip","category-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29087","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/912"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29087"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29087\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29088,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29087\/revisions\/29088"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29087"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29087"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29087"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}