John Brown (June 11, 1937 – March 2, 2022) was an American actor and singer. Brown was a nightclub and stage performer as well as a comic actor, and a regular cast member of the television series Laugh-in. Brown is mostly remembered for his portly physique, wide ingratiating smile, mobile facial expressions, and easy pleasant joking style. Brown was most famous, however, for his role as building superintendent Nathan Bookman on the 1970s CBS sitcom, Good Times. Bookman was often the brunt of fat jokes via the show's main character J. J. Evans (Jimmie Walker). Brown portrayed Bookman until the series was cancelled in 1979. Brown also appeared on The Flip Wilson Show, The Jeffersons,[1] Family Matters, Sister, Sister, The Jamie Foxx Show, The Wayans Bros. and Martin. Brown also appeared in the 1970 film The Out-of-Towners as a waiter on a railroad dining car. Brown also used to go to school with Walter Dean Myers when he lived in Harlem as a boy.