John Amos, who played a stern patriarch on “Good Times,” America’s first sitcom featuring a two-parent Black family, and who had a starring role in “Roots,” the slavery narrative that became America’s most watched show in the late 1970s,

According to John Amos' death certificate, the 'Good Times' star died of congestive heart failure on Aug. 21. The late actor's cause of death has been revealed nearly two months after his death and one day after his son Kelly Christopher "K.