Sonny Jim Gaines, the man who played "Big Money" Grip, was the same actor who played "Bottom-of-the-Deck Dan" in the last-season episode where Fred kept gambling to try to save the Sanford Arms! There, you get to see what he looked like without the "old man" stuff on.

I think he's in the last episode, too, where Fred gets his GED. I think he's one of the crowd who comes to cheer the graduates on or maybe a graduate himself. I know the guy who played "Uncle Edgar" in "Members of the Wedding" is a graduate in that episode.
It's fun to pick these actors out!

This thread means nothing with photos comparisons

I just watch this clip of the episode on youtube and he still looks like a old man to me. WHat was that amazing fact again????

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0zARyhSCBw4

I just watch this clip of the episode on youtube and he still looks like a old man to me. WHat was that amazing fact again????

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0zARyhSCBw4

This also one of the episodes where Lamont had to wear tinted glasses 'cause he was so wacked out that his eyes were red and crossed.

Sonny Jim Gaines, the man who played "Big Money" Grip, was the same actor who played "Bottom-of-the-Deck Dan" in the last-season episode where Fred kept gambling to try to save the Sanford Arms! There, you get to see what he looked like without the "old man" stuff on.

I remember seeing John Amos on the first Lena Horne episode and he looked older on that episode than he does now.

Sonny Jim Gaines, the man who played "Big Money" Grip, was the same actor who played "Bottom-of-the-Deck Dan" in the last-season episode where Fred kept gambling to try to save the Sanford Arms! There, you get to see what he looked like without the "old man" stuff on.

That actor appeared in the 2 part episode of Good Times, "JJs Fiancee", where he played the father of the girl JJ eloped with. In those 2 episodes he looked young.

Imad