U Won’t Believe What “Alderman Davis” Of “GoodTimes” Real Life Job Was

Posted On : April 11, 2015

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We wanted to hit you with this quick Old School Fun Fact ILOSM family:

We all remember the Good Times character, “Alderman Fred C. Davis” right? He had us laughing on many occasions, especially when he would forget “Willona’s” name, calling her every name under the sun except “Willona”…names like Wilhemina, Winnifrieda, Winsomnium, Wyomia, Waldorf-Astoria and even “Petronia” and “Philomena”…LOL.

His name was Albert Reed, Jr. and the thing we never knew was that all the while we were crackin’ up off of “Alderman Davis” a.k.a. “Baldy” as “Willona” would call him, he had a real life 9-5 job that he reported to every day, even during his stint on Good Times and all of his other acting gigs. I guess he had to make sure he had steady income, so I’m not mad at that at all.

He had a career for 24 years as a…

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