John Amos, best known for his roles in the 1977 miniseries Roots and Die Hard 2, has died at the age of 84.

He died on 21 August of natural causes according to a statement from his publicist Belinda Foster, but the news was only released on Tuesday.

Amos also played James Evans Sr on Good Times which featured one of television’s first Black two-parent families.

“That show was the closest depiction in reality to life as an African American family living in those circumstances as…