John Witherspoon (actor)

 His first appearance on TV was in the year 1970 on Barnaby Jone's CBS TV show. He played a counselor to drug-addicted youth. His subsequent appearances were on Good Times and [13] What's going on! !,and The Incredible Hulk. He was an regular host on The Richard Pryor show, the NBC American comedy. The show was later rerun on WKRP. in Cincinnati's fourth-season episode "Circumstantial evidence" in 1982. Witherspoon was Detective Davies. In 1981, he also appeared in Hill Street Blues, a NBC Big Police Drama as a man who attempts to buy hotdogs from Detective Belker. In the year 1981, he had an appearance on L.A. Law, an NBC legal drama that aired in the episode "On Your Honor" as Mark Steadman. He appeared in other television series including You Again? as Osborne, 227, which was an NBC comedy featuring women who lived in a majority-black apartment, as well as The Next Thing! ! It was the sequel to What's Happening! !. A year later, Witherspoon appeared as the bailiff in Amen (1988) which was an American sitcom that ran on NBC. The show was known as one of the shows during the 1980s that included a largely black cast.Next came spots on Townsend Television (1993), Cosmic Slop (1994) and Murder Was The Case (1994) as an alcoholic drunk.He was on Fox's Living Single (1997) episode "Three Men and A Buckeye" as Smoke Eye Howard. His most famous role on TV was The Wayans Bros. (1995-1999) that aired on The WB. It starred Shawn Wayans (brothers Shawn and Marlon Williams) and Witherspoon as John "Pops".