Personal Info
Birth date
1947-06-25 (77 Years)
Gender
Male
Known for
Acting
Place of birth
The Bronx, New York City, New York, USA
Also known as
Jimmie 'JJ' Walker
Jimmie Walker Jr.
詹姆斯·沃克
Jimmie Walker
Biography
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. In 1967, Walker began working full-time with WRVR, the radio station of the Riverside Church. In 1969, Walker began performing as a stand-up comedian and was eventually discovered by the casting director for Good Times, after making appearances on Rowan & Martin's Laugh In and on the Jack Paar Show. He eventually released one stand-up comedy album during the height of his Good Times popularity: Dyn-o-mite on Buddah Records (5635). During Good Times' 1974–75 season, Walker was 26 years old, though his character was much younger. John Amos, the actor who portrayed Walker's father on Good Times, was actually just eight years older than Walker. Walker credits producer/director John Rich for inventing "Dy-no-mite!" which Rich insisted Walker say on every episode. Both Walker and executive producer Norman Lear were skeptical of the idea, but the phrase and Walker's character caught on with the audience. Also, off- and on-camera, Walker did not get along with series' lead, Esther Rolle, who played Florida Evans, in the series, because she and Amos disapproved of Walker's increasingly buffoonish character and his popularity, and Walker felt hurt by their disdain. Dissatisfaction led Amos (before Rolle), to leave the show, making Walker the star of the show. Walker was the only Good Times star to not attend Rolle's funeral.
Filmography
The Mike Douglas Show
5.375
Overview:
The Mike Douglas Show is an American daytime television talk show hosted by Mike Douglas that originally aired only in the Cleveland area during much of its first two years on the air. It then went into syndication in 1963 and remained on television until 1982. It was distributed by Westinghouse Broadcasting and for much of its run, originated from studios of two of the company's TV stations in Cleveland and Philadelphia.The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
7.4
Overview:
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson is a talk show hosted by Johnny Carson under The Tonight Show franchise from 1962 to 1992. It originally aired during late-night. For its first ten years, Carson's Tonight Show was based in New York City with occasional trips to Burbank, California; in May 1972, the show moved permanently to Burbank, California. In 2002, The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson was ranked #12 on TV Guide's 50 Greatest TV Shows of All Time.Sherri
4.2
Overview:
Sherri Shepherd, actress, comic, and Emmy Award-winning longtime co-host of "The View", appears before a live audience with a daily dose of pop culture, comedy, conversations, and daytime talk staples, including celebrity and human interest interviews.The Merv Griffin Show
5.75
Overview:
The Merv Griffin Show is an American television talk show, starring Merv Griffin. The series ran from October 1, 1962 to March 29, 1963 on NBC, September 20, 1965 to August 15, 1969 in first-run syndication, from August 18, 1969 to February 11, 1972 at 11:30 PM ET weeknights on CBS and again in first-run syndication from February 14, 1972 to September 5, 1986.The Bold and the Beautiful
5.5
Overview:
Continuing drama combining romance and intrigue set against the glittering backdrop of Beverly Hills and the American fashion industry.The Dean Martin Celebrity Roasts
5.4
Overview:
The Dean Martin Celebrity Roasts is a NBC television special show hosted by entertainer Dean Martin from 1974 to 1984. For a series of 54 specials and shows, Martin would periodically "roast" a celebrity. These roasts were patterned after the roasts held at the New York Friars' Club in New York City. The format would have the celebrity guest seated at a banquet table, and one by one the guest of honor was affectionately chided or insulted about his career by his fellow celebrity friends. In 1973, The Dean Martin Show was declining in popularity. The final season of his variety show would be retooled into one of celebrity roasts, requiring less of Martin's involvement. For the 1973–1974 season, a new feature called “Man of the Week Celebrity Roast" was added to try to pick up the ratings. The roasts seemed to be popular among television audiences and are often marketed in post-issues as part of the official Dean Martin Celebrity Roasts and not The Dean Martin Show. After The Dean Martin Show was cancelled in 1974, NBC drew up a contract with Martin to do several specials and do more roast specials. Starting with Bob Hope in 1974, the roast was taped in California and turned out to be a hit, leading to many other roasts to follow.Saturday Night Live
6.96
Overview:
A late-night live television sketch comedy and variety show created by Lorne Michaels. The show's comedy sketches, which parody contemporary culture and politics, are performed by a large and varying cast of repertory and newer cast members. Each episode is hosted by a celebrity guest, who usually delivers an opening monologue and performs in sketches with the cast, and features performances by a musical guest.The Tony Danza Show
6.1
Overview:
The Tony Danza Show was a daytime variety talk show that premiered on September 13, 2004 in syndication and was distributed by Buena Vista Television.The Larry Sanders Show
7.699
Overview:
Comic Garry Shandling draws upon his own talk show experiences to create the character of Larry Sanders, a paranoid, insecure host of a late night talk show. Larry, along with his obsequious TV sidekick Hank Kingsley and his fiercely protective producer Artie, allows Garry Shandling and his talented writers to look behind the scenes and to show us a convincing slice of behind the camera life.Scrubs
8.01
Overview:
In the unreal world of Sacred Heart Hospital, John "J.D." Dorian learns the ways of medicine, friendship and life.Hollywood Squares
7.2
Overview:
On September 14, 1998, a Hollywood Squares revival debuted with Tom Bergeron as its host. In addition to her production duties, Whoopi Goldberg served as the permanent center square, with series head writer Bruce Vilanch, Gilbert Gottfried, Martin Mull, and Caroline Rhea as regular panelists and Brad Garrett, Bobcat Goldthwait, Jeffrey Tambor, George Wallace, Kathy Griffin and various others as semi-regular panelists. Shadoe Stevens returned to announce, although he was not given a square on the panel as he had been when John Davidson was host.The Love Boat
6.3
Overview:
Passengers who search for romantic nights aboard a beautiful ship travelling to tropical or mysterious countries, decide to pass their vacation aboard the "Love Boat", where Gopher, Dr. Bricker, Isaac, Julie, and Captain Stubing try their best to please them, and sometimes help them fall in love. Things are not always so easy, but in the end, love wins.ER
7.828
Overview:
ER explores the inner workings of an urban teaching hospital and the critical issues faced by the dedicated physicians and staff of its overburdened emergency room.The Drew Carey Show
6.5
Overview:
Drew is an assistant director of personnel in a Cleveland department store and he has been stuck there for ten years. Other than fighting with co-worker Mimi, his hobbies include drinking beer and not being able to get dates. To make a few extra bucks he has a micro-brewery going in his garage with his buddies.Blossom
6.1
Overview:
Blossom Russo is a highly intelligent and spunky teenager. The youngest of three, she lives with her divorced musician father, Nick, eldest brother and recovering substance abuser Anthony, and decidedly not-so-bright middle brother Joey. Along for the ride is Blossom's ditzy best friend, Six, who sometimes shows flashes of great perception.Gotham Comedy Live
5.5
Overview:
Gotham Comedy Club, a popular comedy venue in the Chelsea neighborhood of Manhattan, is the setting of an hourlong series that is shot in front of an audience at the club. Each episode features routines by several comics -- a list that has included such names as David Alan Grier, Gilbert Gottfried and Artie Lange -- in what the network says is an unedited and uncensored format. In addition to the big names of the field who take the Gotham stage, the show also features up-and-comers who want to make a name for themselves in the stand-up comedy business.Space Ghost Coast to Coast
7.8
Overview:
A cartoon superhero interacts with live guests via his television set in this parody talk show based on 1960s Hanna-Barbera cartoon character Space Ghost.Comedy.tv
9
Overview:
Some say laughter is the best medicine. It’s true. Standup comedy has been known to cure everything from bad moods and frowns to fits of pouting. So for those who need a heavy dose of hilarity, try a spoonful of “Comedy.TV.” With no traffic jams, parking debacles, or two-drink minimums of the local comedy clubs, the most clever comedians jump onstage for a full-fledged funny fest.The John Larroquette Show
6.7
Overview:
The John Larroquette Show is an American television sitcom .The show was a vehicle for John Larroquette following his run as Dan Fielding on Night Court. The series takes place in a seedy bus terminal in St. Louis, Missouri and originally focused on the somewhat broken people who worked the night shift, and in particular, the lead character's battle with alcoholism.The White Shadow
7
Overview:
The White Shadow is an American drama television series that ran on the CBS network from November 27 1978, to March 16 1981.Tony Orlando and Dawn
3.5
Overview:
CBS gave the group a television variety show (entitled Tony Orlando and Dawn) from the summer of 1974, after The Sonny and Cher Comedy Hour ended its run, until December 1976. The show was in the same vein as its predecessor (with sketches featuring sarcastic back-and-forth banter between Orlando, Hopkins and Vincent, similar to the sarcastic dialogue between Sonny and Cher) and became a Top 20 hit. They are most famous for "Tie a Yellow Ribbon" & "Knock Three Times"!Everybody Hates Chris
8
Overview:
Chris is a teenager growing up as the eldest of three children in Brooklyn, New York during the early 1980s. Uprooted to a new neighborhood and bused to a predominantly white middle school two-hours away by his strict, hard-working parents, Chris struggles to find his place while keeping his siblings in line at home and surmounting the challenges of junior high.Donny & Marie
6.5
Overview:
Donny & Marie is an American variety show which aired on ABC from January 1976 to January 1979. The show stars brother and sister pop duo Donny Osmond and Marie Osmond. Donny had first become popular singing in a music group with his brothers, The Osmonds, and Marie was one of the youngest singers to reach #1 on the Billboard Country Music charts. The siblings were offered a weekly show by ABC-TV President Fred Silverman after he saw the duo co-host a week on The Mike Douglas Show which followed their series of popular remakes of oldies, such as "I'm Leaving It Up To You", "Morning Side Of The Mountain", "Deep Purple" and "Make The World Go Away". Donny and Marie were the youngest entertainers in TV history to host their own variety show. A year later, The Keane Brothers would break this record.Good Times
6.1
Overview:
In this edgy, irreverent reimagining of the TV classic, a new generation of the Evans family keeps their heads above water in a Chicago housing project.Cagney & Lacey
6.9
Overview:
Mary Beth Lacey and Chris Cagney are teamed up as NYPD police detectives. Their opposing personalities (one is tough and the other sensitive) mesh to make this one of the great crime-fighting duos of all time.Celebrity Ghost Stories
7.3
Overview:
Compelling, surprising and downright spooky — celebrities share their real-life personal encounters with the paranormal in each one-hour special. From encounters with ghosts and angry spirits to haunted homes, unexplainable spells and magic, these descriptive, first person narratives from our favorite stars delivers a brand new way of experiencing the thrills and chills of the addictive world of the paranormal.George Lopez
7.6
Overview:
George raises daughter Carmen and dyslexic son Max with his wife Angie, after surviving a miserable, dysfunctional childhood at the hands of his neglectful alcoholic mother Benny.Son of the Beach
6.625
Overview:
A parody of "Baywatch" featuring Malibu Adjacent's Notch Johnson, the world's greatest lifeguard (hardly), and his unit SPF-30.Good Times
8
Overview:
Good Times is an American sitcom that originally aired from February 8, 1974, until August 1, 1979, on the CBS television network. It was created by Eric Monte and Mike Evans, and developed by Norman Lear, the series' primary executive producer. Good Times is a spin-off of Maude, which is itself a spin-off of All in the Family along with The Jeffersons. The series is set in Chicago. The first two seasons were taped at CBS Television City in Hollywood. In the fall of 1975, the show moved to Metromedia Square, where Norman Lear's own production company was housed.Acting
2024Good Times (2 Episodes) as Jim Bean (voice)
2023Norman Lear: A Life on Television as Self
2023Don't Suck as Dale
2022Show Business Is My Life (But I Can't Prove It) as Self
2022Sherri (1 Episode) as Self - Guest
2022Dark Side of Comedy (1 Episode) as Self
2022Right to Offend: The Black Comedy Revolution (2 Episodes) as Self
2020A Wrestling Christmas Miracle as Dr. Lemon
2020The Comedy Store (5 Episodes) as Self
2019Live in Front of a Studio Audience: "All in the Family" and "Good Times" as Self
2019The Very Very Best of the 70s (1 Episode) as Self - Commentator
2019I Am Richard Pryor as Self - Actor and Comedian
2018Jimmie JJ Walker & Michael Winslow: We Are Still Here as Himself
2016The Comedian as Jimmie Walker
2015Sweet Lorraine as Rudy ray
2012Gotham Comedy Live (1 Episode) as Self - Host
2012David E. Talbert's What Goes Around Comes Around as Preacher
2011Super Shark as Dynamite Stevens
2010Big Money Rustlas as The Husband
2009Celebrity Ghost Stories (1 Episode) as Self
2009Comedy.tv (1 Episode) as Unknown
2007Back to the Grind (1 Episode) as Unknown
2007Chasing Robert as Himself
2005Everybody Hates Chris (2 Episodes) as Gene
2004The Tony Danza Show (1 Episode) as Self
2002George Lopez (2 Episodes) as Unknown
2001Beat the Geeks (1 Episode) as Unknown
2001Scrubs (2 Episodes) as Jimmie Walker
2000Shriek If You Know What I Did Last Friday the Thirteenth as Pimp
2000Son of the Beach (1 Episode) as Unknown
1998Hollywood Squares (1 Episode) as Self - Panelist
1997Plump Fiction as Stingy Costumer
1995Monster Mash: The Movie as Hathaway
1995The Drew Carey Show (1 Episode) as Lewis' stunt double
1995Open Season as Homer (as Jimmy Walker)
1994ER (1 Episode) as Jay Jay
1994Space Ghost Coast to Coast (1 Episode) as Unknown
1994But... Seriously as Self (archive footage)
1993The John Larroquette Show (1 Episode) as Slyde Wilson
1992Home Alone 2: Lost in New York as Celeb #3
1992The Larry Sanders Show (1 Episode) as Jimmie Walker
1991The Guyver as Striker
1990Blossom (1 Episode) as Unknown
1988Kidnapped as Chester
1987Bustin' Loose (26 Episodes) as Sonny Barnes
1987Going Bananas as Mozambo
1987The Bold and the Beautiful (2 Episodes) as Count Bouche
1985Doin' Time as Shaker
1985Water as Jay Jay
1983Imps* as Thomas
1983At Ease (14 Episodes) as Unknown
1982Cagney & Lacey (1 Episode) as Tony Brown
1980Airplane! as Windshield Wiper Man
1980Murder Can Hurt You! as Parks the Pusher
1980The Sensational Shocking Wonderful Wacky 70's as Self - Village People
1980B.A.D. Cats (8 Episodes) as Unknown
1979The Concorde... Airport '79 as Boisie
1978The White Shadow (1 Episode) as Jimmie Walker
1978Rabbit Test as Umbuto
1977Telethon as Himself
1977The Greatest Thing That Almost Happened as Morris Bird III
1977The Love Boat (1, 1, 1, 2 Episode) as Ronald Baker, Mickey Garner, Wally, Marvin Jones
1976Joys as Self
1976Donny & Marie (1 Episode) as Self
1975Let's Do It Again as Bootney Farnsworth
1975Saturday Night Live (1 Episode) as Self - Cameo (uncredited)
1975Cher (1 Episode) as Self
1974Tony Orlando and Dawn (1 Episode) as Self
1974Sing Sing Thanksgiving as Self
1974Good Times (133 Episodes) as James "JJ" Evans
1973The Dean Martin Celebrity Roasts (1 Episode) as Self
1962The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson (1 Episode) as Self
1962The Merv Griffin Show (2 Episodes) as Self
1961The Mike Douglas Show (4, 2 Episode) as Self, Self - Co-Host
Writing
2018Jimmie JJ Walker & Michael Winslow: We Are Still Here ... Writer