Question: The American actor best known for his role as James Evans, Sr. on the CBS television series "Good Times"  starred in a 1982 sword and sorcery film directed by whom?

Context articles: Esther Rolle
Bern Nadette Stanis
Ta-Ronce Allen
Ralph Carter
Larry Manetti
John Amos
The Beastmaster
Johnny Brown (actor)
Ben Powers
Jimmie Walker

Esther Elizabeth Rolle (November 8, 1920 November 17, 1998) was a Bahamian American actress.
 Rolle is best known for her role as Florida Evans, on the CBS television sitcom "Maude," for two seasons (1972–1974), and its spin-off series "Good Times", for five seasons (1974–77, 1978–79), for which Rolle was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for Best Actress - Television Series Musical or Comedy in 1976.
Bern Nadette Stanis (born Bernadette Stanislaus, December 22, 1953) is an American actress and author.
 Stanis is best known for her role as Thelma Ann Evans–Anderson, the only daughter of Florida and James Evans, Sr. on the CBS sitcom "Good Times" which originally ran from 1974 to 1979.
 Stanis is the author of four books: "Situations 101: Relationships, The Good, The Bad & The Ugly"; "For Men Only"; "Situations 101: Finances"; and "The Last Night".
Ta-Ronce Allen (born February 2, 1960) is an American actress.
 She is best known for her appearances as a teen actress on television in the 1970s.
 She had a role as Michael Evans's girlfriend "Yvonne" in two episodes of the CBS sitcom "Good Times" in 1976 and 1977.
 Allen was born in Los Angeles and currently lives in Lancaster, California.
 She is also the daughter of actor Raymond Allen, who starred as Uncle Woodrow Anderson on the NBC sitcom "Sanford and Son" and Ned "The Wino" on the CBS sitcom "Good Times" in the 1970s.
 Allen had a role in the 1972 neo-noir film "Hickey & Boggs" with actors Bill Cosby and Robert Culp.
 She also appeared in the first episode of the second season of "Kung Fu" entitled "The Well.
Ralph David Carter (born May 30, 1961) is an American actor and singer.
 Carter is known for his work as a child and teenager, both in the Broadway musical "Raisin," based on the Lorraine Hansberry drama "A Raisin in the Sun"; and as Michael Evans, the youngest child of Florida and James Evans, Sr., on the CBS sitcom "Good Times" from 1974–1979.
Lawrence Francis "Larry" Manetti (born July 23, 1947) is an American actor best known for his role as Orville Wilbur Richard "Rick" Wright on the long-running CBS television series "Magnum P.I." which starred Tom Selleck as the title character.
 He also starred as Maj. Pappy Boyington's (played by Robert Conrad) pilot partner 1LT Robert A. "Bob/Bobby" Boyle in "Baa Baa Black Sheep".
John Allen Amos Jr. (born December 27, 1939) is an American actor who is best known for his role as James Evans, Sr. on the CBS television series "Good Times" (1974–76).
 Amos' other television work includes roles in "The Mary Tyler Moore Show", the miniseries "Roots", for which he received an Emmy nomination, and a recurring role as Admiral Percy Fitzwallace on "The West Wing".
 Amos also played the father of Will Smith's character's girlfriend, Lisa Wilkes, in "The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air", and he had a recurring role on "In the House" with LL Cool J, as Coach Sam Wilson.
 Amos played the Father of Tommy Strawn (Thomas Mikal Ford) on the long running sitcom, "Martin", as Sgt. Strawn, and another recurring role on "Two and a Half Men" as Chelsea's dad's new lover, Edward Boynton.
 Amos also played Major Grant, the US Special forces officer in "Die Hard 2".
 Amos has also appeared on Broadway and in numerous films in a career that spans four decades.
 He has received nominations for a Primetime Emmy Award and NAACP Image Award.
The Beastmaster is a 1982 sword and sorcery film directed by Don Coscarelli and starring Marc Singer, Tanya Roberts, John Amos and Rip Torn.
 The film is about a child who is stolen from his mother's womb by a witch.
 The child grows into Dar, who has the ability to communicate telepathically with animals.
 Dar grows up in a village where he learns to do battle.
 But the village is destroyed by a race of beast-like warriors under the control of the sorcerer Maax.
 Dar vows revenge and travels with new friends to stop Maax from causing any more problems.
John "Johnny" Brown (born June 11, 1937) is an American actor and singer.
 Brown is 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 chubby physique, wide ingratiating smile, mobile facial expressions, and easy pleasant joking style.
 Brown is 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.
 Other television shows Brown has appeared on include "Flip Wilson Show", "The Jeffersons", "Family Matters", "Sister, Sister, The Jamie Foxx Show and Martin.
 Brown also used to go to school with Walter Dean Myers when he lived in Harlem as a boy.
Alton Adelbert Powers (July 5, 1950 – April 6, 2015), known professionally as Ben Powers was an American actor.
 Powers was best known for his role as Thelma Evans's (portrayed by Bern Nadette Stanis) husband, Keith Albert Anderson, during the sixth and final season of the CBS sitcom "Good Times" (1978–79).
 Powers was also a cast member on the NBC television comedy series "Laugh-In" (1977–78).
 Powers died on April 6, 2015 at age 64 due to liver cancer.
James Carter Walker, Jr. (born June 25, 1947), known professionally as Jimmie Walker, is an American actor and comedian.
 Walker is best known for portraying James Evans, Jr. (J.J.), the oldest son of Florida and James Evans, Sr. on the CBS television series "Good Times" which originally ran from 1974–1979.
 Walker was nominated for Golden Globe awards "Best Supporting Actor In A Television Series" in 1975 and 1976 for his role.
 While on the show, Walker's character was known for the catchphrase ""Dy-no-mite!""
 which he also used in his mid–1970s TV commercial for a Panasonic line of cassette and 8-track tape players.
 He also starred in "Let's Do It Again" with John Amos, and "The Greatest Thing That Almost Happened" with James Earl Jones.
 Walker continues to tour the country with his stand-up comedy routine.