A pioneering television actor, writer, and director who emerged in the 1960s just as things were opening up for African American artists in front of and behind the camera.
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
Lou Grant
Rhoda
The Carol Burnett Show
The Six Million Dollar Man
That Girl
Taxi
A New Kind of Family
Baretta
Barefoot in the Park
The Mothers-in-Law
Police Story
Here Come the BridesMe and Mrs. CStockard Channing: In Just Friends
Joe Forrester13 East
The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour
