View Full Version : Actors that were both on Good Times and Sanford & Son


GoldenTV
01-11-2019, 06:17 PM
Hello everyone. Long time lurker, first time poster :wave:

I am big fan of GoodTimes and Sanford and Son, and these are some of actors and actresses that have been on both shows.

Willona (Ja'net DuBois): A goodTimes regular, she was also in one episode of Sanford&son where she and here daughter were trying to fishin Fred and Lamont.
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-J2F2wnkfOR0/UMzF8yK0VhI/AAAAAAAAAZs/5kOmJNQkncQ/s400/Ja'Net+Dubois.jpg

Ned the Wino (Raymond Allen): No explanation needed on this one as he played same drunken character on both shows.
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Marion "Sweet Daddy" Williams (Theodore Wilson): He played a bit part in S&S as a mail deliver man which Fred refused to accept unless the letter had good news in it.
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-UjKabDfgjGI/T_8ZRDKxY3I/AAAAAAAAAFA/T-6QP1YYY0Y/s320/sweet+daddy+williams.JPG

Alderman Fred C. Davis (Albert Reed, Jr.): He played the father of fat girl with $10000 dowry that Fred tried to unload on Lamont.
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-a3_tj94hcrE/Tbi266y3OJI/AAAAAAAAAIM/f21FZYt3Pug/s1600/alderman%2Bdavis.jpg

Lootin' Lenny (Dap 'Sugar' Willie): My name is Lenny….what a funny character. He played the theater manager where Fred’s brother in law Rodney booked an act.
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Matthew "Stymie" Beard (former Our Gang child actor): Playing James’s friend Monty, he played Grady’s friend where Grady got too many social security checks.
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Roscoe Lee Browne (shady televangelist Reverend Sam): Another friend of James on GoodTimes, he played as Donna’s patient on Sanford&Son. As a side not, he also played in a movie with James (John Amos) called World Greatest Athlete.
http://basementrejects.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/good-times-season-1-4-gods-business-is-good-business-reverend-sam-james-roscoe-lee-browne-john-amos-review-episode-guide-list-300x230.jpg

Hal Williams: As Mr. Mitchell, the father of Earl Mitchell, who is an art student of J.J.'s. He was also the policeman "Smithy" in S&S.
http://66.media.tumblr.com/76232b819d7804b90ccaa98126148b22/tumblr_ngkn4lmFEB1tuy8zto3_500.jpg

Thalmus Rasulala (Ernie Harris): a childhood friend of James with a gambling problem (he called James “Patches”). He also played a card shark in S&S.
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Ron Glass (blind encyclopedia salesman): He played Lamont’s friend who just got out of jail.
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I think I got all characters that had parts on both TV shows.

Zoneboy
01-11-2019, 10:06 PM
There were many who had roles in both shows.

https://www.imdb.com/search/name?roles=tt0070991,tt0068128

GoldenTV
01-14-2019, 10:22 AM
There were many who had roles in both shows.

https://www.imdb.com/search/name?roles=tt0070991,tt0068128

Thanks Zoneboy for the link. Looks like I missed a lot of characters on both shows :D

Good to know some of them are still with us.

Heenan Fan
01-25-2019, 02:05 AM
I was able to guess 5 of them. Wcome to the site GoldenTV.

Yong Fang
01-29-2019, 10:56 PM
John Amos was in an episode as a background character in the Lena Horne episode.

TVFactFan
03-06-2019, 05:07 PM
It was another woman who starred on Sanford and Son and Good times

It was the drunk lady who was looking for Fred Sanford in the Grady episodes

On Good Times she played in the 1st episode of season 2 when she was talking about standing in line and that when she die they going to bury her standing up

GoldenTV
03-07-2019, 05:23 AM
It was another woman who starred on Sanford and Son and Good times

It was the drunk lady who was looking for Fred Sanford in the Grady episodes

On Good Times she played in the 1st episode of season 2 when she was talking about standing in line and that when she die they going to bury her standing up

She was a real funny lady. After reading, she seem to have appeared twice on Sanford&son and GoodTimes. The two you mentioned, and also as horoscope reader for Lamont, and as parent meeting episode when Michael was in warlord gang.

TVFactFan
03-07-2019, 01:34 PM
She was a real funny lady. After reading, she seem to have appeared twice on Sanford&son and GoodTimes. The two you mentioned, and also as horoscope reader for Lamont, and as parent meeting episode when Michael was in warlord gang.

Yeah that's right. She appeared in season 2 and 4 of Good Times and seasons 4 and 5 of S&S

Sonny Carson
03-13-2019, 12:02 AM
Tina Andrews played Henrietta on Good Times, and Elizabeth on Sanford and Son!

TVFactFan
03-13-2019, 12:32 AM
Tina Andrews played Henrietta on Good Times, and Elizabeth on Sanford and Son!

and she was the daughter on the sanford and son spinoff called Sanford Arms