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TV series / 1986
Amen
Amen is an American television sitcom produced by Carson Productions that ran from September 27, 1986 to May 11, 1991 on NBC. Set in Sherman Hemsley's real-life hometown of Philadelphia, Amen stars Hemsley as the deacon of a church and was part of a wave of successful sitcoms on NBC in the 1980s which featured entirely or almost-entirely black casts. Others included The Cosby Show, A Different World, and 227.
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Amen is an American television sitcom produced by Carson Productions that ran from September 27, 1986 to May 11, 1991 on NBC. Set in Sherman Hemsley's real-life hometown of Philadelphia, Amen stars Hemsley as the deacon of a church and was part of a wave of successful sitcoms on NBC in the 1980s which featured entirely or almost-entirely black casts. Others included The Cosby Show, A Different World, and 227.
Cast
Sherman HemsleyDeacon Ernest Frye
Clifton DavisReverend Reuben Gregory
Anna Maria HorsfordThelma Frye
Roz RyanAmelia Hetabrink
Jester HairstonRolly Forbes
Barbara MontgomeryCasietta Hetebrink
Tony T. JohnsonChris
Elsa RavenInga
Bumper RobinsonClarence
Rosetta LeNoire
Franklyn Seales
Montrose HaginsLeola Forbes · Mrs. Jackson
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Miguel A. Núñez Jr.
Richard Roundtree
Craig Bierko
Ta-Tanisha
Moses Gunn
Ron Glass
Vonetta McGee
Neva Patterson
Tracy Reed
Lee Weaver
Nell Carter
Paula Kelly
Denise Nicholas
John Matuszak
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
Jane White
James Brown
Ji-Tu Cumbuka
Sam Scarber
Darius McCrary
Bennet Guillory
Lynn HamiltonMrs. Phillips
Todd Hallowell
Robert MacNaughtonMichael
Tasha ScottConnie
Shirley Jo FinneyMs. Rollins
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