John Witherspoon (actor)
Television

John Witherspoon (actor)

Section Title: Television
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Year	Title	Role	Notes

1977	The Richard Pryor Show	Various	2 episodes

1978	The Incredible Hulk	Tom	Episode: "Final Round"

What's Happening!!	D.J.	Episode: "Disco Dollar Disaster"

1979	Good Times	Officer Lawson	Episode: "A Matter of Mothers"

Barnaby Jones	Frank Wales	Episode: "School of Terror"

1982	WKRP in Cincinnati	Detective Davies	Episode: "Circumstantial Evidence"

Hill Street Blues	Businessman	Episode: "The Young, The Beautiful and the Degraded"

1986	You Again?	Osborne	Episode: "Good Neighbors"

1987	227	Man #2	Episode: "Low Noon"

What's Happening Now!!	Adam	Episode: "Family Life"

Frank's Place	Ray Parrish	Episode: "Season's Greetings"

1988	Amen	The Balliff	2 episodes

1990	L.A. Law	Mark Steadman	Episode: "On Your Honor"

1993	Townsend Television	10 episodes

Martin	Uncle Junior	Episode: "Thanks for Nothing"

1994	The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air	Augustus Adams	Episode: "The Harder They Fall"

1995-99	The Wayans Bros.	John "Pops" Williams	Main cast 101 episodes

1996-97	Waynehead	Dad (voice)	3 episodes

1997	Living Single	Smoke Eye Howard	Episode: "Three Men and a Buckeye"

2000	Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child	Scofflaw (voice)	Episode: "The Prince and the Pauper"

2003-04	The Proud Family	Oran Jones (voice)	3 episodes

The Tracy Morgan Show	Spoon	Main cast 18 episodes

2004	Kim Possible	Wayne (voice)	Episode: "Rewriting History"

Pryor Offenses	Willie The Wino	TV movie

2005	Weekends at the D.L.	Michael Johnson	Episode: "1.14"

2005-2014	The Boondocks	Robert "Granddad" Freeman (voice) / Blind Man (voice)	Main cast 55 episodes

2006	Thugaboo: A Miracle on D-Roc's Street	Real Santa (voice) / Christmas Singer on Radio (voice)	TV movie

2008	The Super Rumble Mixshow

2011	Tosh.O	Fart Section Bus Passenger	Episode: "Fart Bus Kid"

2012-15	The First Family	Grandpa Alvin	Recurring role 28 episodes

2013-15	Randy Cunningham: 9th Grade Ninja	S. Ward Smith (voice)	3 episodes

2014	Anger Management	Will	Episode: "Charlie Tests His Power"

2014-15	Black Jesus	Lloyd	21 episodes

2014	Black Dynamite	(voice)	Episode: "The Warriors Come Out or The Mean Queens of Halloween"

2016	Black-ish	James Brown	2 episodes

Animals.	Jimmy (voice)	Episode: "Squrriels Part I"

2017	White Famous	Limo Driver	Episode: "Pilot"

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John Witherspoon appeared in television series includes "You Again?" as Osborne, 227 and "What's Happening Now!!!".

final_sentence: John Witherspoon appeared in television series includes "You Again?" as Osborne, 227 and "What's Happening Now!!!".