Biografía

Amos was once a Golden Gloves boxing champion.

Played college football at Colorado State University.

Played professional football for the Norfolk Neptunes in the late 1960s.

Signed a free agent contract with the American Football League's Kansas City Chiefs but was later strongly urged by Head Coach Hank Stram to pursue his heart as a writer.

Amos was cast as the Evans family's father in Good Times (1974) despite being only eight years older than Jimmie 'JJ' Walker, who portrayed oldest son J.J., and nearly nineteen years younger than Esther Rolle, who played his wife, Florida. This was not unusual in African-American comedies in the 1970s produced by Norman Lear. In Los Jefferson (1975), Sherman Hemsley, who portrayed husband George, was about twenty and one half years younger than Isabel Sanford, who portrayed wife Louise.