John Amos: Roots, Good Times and The West Wing actor remembered

Getty ImagesTributes have been paid to actor John Amos, who made his mark on US TV in the hugely popular landmark series Roots, and Good Times.Amos, who was 84, played stern but loving patriarch James Evans in Good Times, one of the first sitcoms about a black family, from 1974.But he was fired after three seasons following heated and long-running arguments about how the show's white writers depicted its…