‘Good Times’ Star Ja’net DuBois Dies at 74

Ja'net DuBois, who is associated with her six-season stretch on CBS sitcom Great Occasions, was discovered dead in her Glendale, California home on Tuesday. Her family revealed to TMZ the entertainer kicked the bucket out of the blue in her rest. She was accepted to be 74 years of age.  

  

Conceived Jeannette DuBois in Brooklyn, New York (as indicated by one source), her status as supporting character Willona Woods on the Maude turn off was moved up to lead in the fifth season (in 1977-78) after Esther Rolle briefly left Great Occasions. At that point, DuBois' Willona embraced a little youngster named Penny Gordon, played by Janet Jackson, and stayed on the arrangement through the arrangement finale on January 30, 1980.  

  

Amusingly, the characters of Florida Evans (Esther Rolle) and Willona Woods on Great Occasions should be previous classmates, yet there was an expected multi-year age contrast between the two, in actuality.  

  

DuBois was additionally a vocalist and a lyricist, known specifically for co-composing and playing out the signature melody for a parody The Jeffersons.  

  

She likewise voiced the character of Mrs. Avery in claymation satire The P.J.s on Fox (for which she won two Emmys for Remarkable Voice-Over Execution), just as Mrs. Patterson in energized As Told by Ginger. In 1987, DuBois showed up in previous Great Occasions co-star Janet Jackson's 1987 "Control" music video as her mom.  

  

Prior to the hef profession, DuBois made the visitor adjusts on an arrangement like Sanford and Child, Shaft, The Blue Knight, Kojak, and Caribe. After Great Occasions, she was back as a visitor star in a huge number of shows including The Affection Pontoon, The Unavoidable issues facing everyone (in a secondary passage pilot titled Brian and Sylvia), Houston Knights, An Alternate World, and Beverly Slopes, 90210. From 1996 to 1997, she returned as Willona Woods on WB sitcom The Wayans Brothers.