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Johnny Brown, the actor, comedian and singer best known for his role as superintendent Nathan Bookman on the popular 70s sitcom “Good Times,” died Wednesday. He was 84 years old.

Brown’s death was confirmed by his daughter, Broadway actress Sharon Catherine Brown, through a post shared on her Instagram. No further details on Brown’s death are available at this time.

“He was literally snatched out of our lives. It’s not real for us yet,” Sharon Catherine Brown wrote. “So there will be more to say but not now. Dad was the absolute best. We love him so very much.”

Prior to his sitcom stardom, Brown was a seasoned entertainment veteran, regularly performing in nightclub acts with his future wife, June Russell. Early in his career he dabbled in recording music, releasing the single “Walkin’, Talkin’, Kissin’ Doll” for Columbia Records in 1961 and “You’re Too Much in Love...

Johnny Brown, best known for his role as the housing project superintendent Nathan Bookman on the TV show Good Times and a Laugh-In regular, has died at 84. No cause of death was given by his family, who announced his March 2 death on Instagram.

Daughter and actress Sharon Catherine Brown wrote on Instagram. “Our family is devastated. Devastated. Devastated. Beyond heartbroken. Barely able to breathe.”

Brown had a multi-facted career. He recorded songs and played in a band, appeared on Broadway, and was a television regular, including three seasons as part of the ensemble on the hit show Rowan & Martin’s Laugh-In. That appearance was a double-edged sword, as his contractual commitments to the show prevented him from taking the role of Red Foxx’s son on Sanford and Son.

Former Laugh-In writer-turned-producer Allan Manings brought Brown to Good Times in 1975, midway through its second season.

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One Day at a Time just can't seem to catch a break. Pop has cancelled the comedy TV show after a shortened fourth season but there's a chance there could still be a fifth season.

A reboot of the 1970s CBS series from Norman Lear, Whitney Blake, and Allan Manings, the reboot comes from Gloria Calderón Kellett and Mike Royce. It centers on Cuban-American Penelope Riera Alverez (Justina Machado). This US Army veteran and divorced mother is just trying to balance work and her social life while raising her kids, Elena (Isabella Gomez) and Alex (Marcel Ruiz). Thankfully, she has the support of her Cuban mother, Lydia Riera (Rita Moreno), her boss, Dr. Leslie Berkowitz (Stephen Tobolowsky), and landlord Pat Schneider (Todd Grinnell).

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In December, 1975, Norman Lear’s sitcom “One Day at a Time” premiered on CBS. Created by husband-and-wife duo Whitney Blake and Allan Manings, the series followed a divorced mother who raises her two daughters in Indianapolis on her own. The series ran for nine seasons and finished up in May, 1984.

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Now, a modern take on the 70s sitcom will soon hit Netflix, and it’s produced by Lear himself. The series follows three generations of a Cuban-American family living under the same roof and navigating the ups and downs of life. Newly-single mother and military veteran Penelope (Justina Machado) contends with the trials and tribulations of raising her two children — Elena (Isabella Gomez) and Alex (Marcel Ruiz) with the help of her old-school mother (Rita Moreno) and building manager (Todd Grinnell). Watch a trailer for the series below.

The Writers Guild just announced that 4-time Emmy-winning TV comedy writer Allan Manings, a former Wgaw VP and Board of Directors member and co-creator of the long-running sitcom One Day At A Time, died of a heart attack last Wednesday in Beverly Hills after recently undergoing cancer surgery. He was 86. From McHale's Navy to Rowan & Martin’s Laugh-In, to Good Times, to One Day At A Time, Manings showed he could please all audiences. In 1997, he received the Wgaw’s prestigious Morgan Cox Award for longtime service to the Guild, presented to members “whose vital ideas, continuing efforts, and [...]...

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Emmy-winning television comedy writer Allan Manings, who co-created "One Day at a Time," died May 12 of a heart attack in Beverly Hills. The former VP of the Writers Guild of America, West, and member of its board of directors was 86.

According to his stepdaughter, actress Meredith Baxter, Manings died after going into cardiac arrest at his oncologist’s office; he had recently undergone surgery for esophageal cancer.

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Allan Manings, who created the CBS sitcom "One Day at a Time" with his late wife, actress Whitney Blake, died May 11 of a heart attack in Beverly Hills. He was 86.

Manings, who recently underwent surgery for esophageal cancer, died after going into cardiac arrest at his oncologist's office, his stepdaughter, actress Meredith Baxter, told the Los Angeles Times.

Manings also wrote for such shows as "Leave It to Beaver," "McHale's Navy," "Petticoat Junction," "Good Times" and "Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In." He won an Emmy in 1968 for his work on the latter and received the WGA's Morgan Cox Award in 1997.

Manings and Blake created "One Day at a Time" for Norman Lear's company. The sitcom ran from 1975-84 and starred Bonnie Franklin as a divorced mom and Valerie Bertinelli and Mackenzie Phillips as her teenage daughters.

In addition to Baxter, Manings is survived by two stepsons, Richard and Brian Baxter; his sister,...