| Amen is an American television sitcom produced by Carson Productions that ran from September 27, 1986 to May 11, 1991 on NBC. Set in Sherman Hemsley's real-life hometown of Philadelphia, Amen stars Hemsley as the deacon of a church and was part of a wave of successful sitcoms on NBC in the 1980s which featured entirely or almost-entirely black casts. Others included The Cosby Show, A Different World, and 227. |
| Name | Character | Episodes |
|---|---|---|
| Sherman Hemsley | Deacon Ernest Frye | 110 |
| Anna Maria Horsford | Thelma Frye | 110 |
| Clifton Davis | Reverend Reuben Gregory | 110 |
| Roz Ryan | Amelia Hetabrink | 110 |
| Jester Hairston | Rolly Forbes | 110 |
| Tony T. Johnson | Chris | 67 |
| Elsa Raven | Inga | 45 |
| Bumper Robinson | Clarence | 22 |
| Rosetta LeNoire | 8 | |
| Franklyn Seales | 4 | |
| Craig Bierko | 2 | |
| Richard Roundtree | 2 | |
| Miguel A. Núñez Jr. | 2 | |
| Ji-Tu Cumbuka | 1 | |
| Denise Nicholas | 1 | |
| Kareem Abdul-Jabbar | 1 | |
| Moses Gunn | 1 | |
| Darius McCrary | 1 | |
| Neva Patterson | 1 | |
| Nell Carter | 1 | |
| Bumper Robinson | 1 | |
| Paula Kelly | 1 | |
| Lee Weaver | 1 | |
| Tracy Reed | 1 | |
| James Brown | 1 | |
| Sam Scarber | 1 | |
| Lynn Hamilton | Mrs. Phillips | 1 |
| John Matuszak | 1 | |
| Bennet Guillory | 1 | |
| Robert MacNaughton | Michael | 1 |
| Ta-Tanisha | 1 | |
| Ron Glass | 1 |