patriarch

Francis Jue’s Victory Lap: Seventeen years after he first appeared in “Yellow Face,” the veteran actor has returned with a nuanced performance as a blustery patriarch.

Pennington, for example, characterized slavery as “an institution of the dark age” while critiquing the “monarchs, patriarchs, and prophets of the South.”

Incarcerated ‘Chrisley Knows Best’ patriarch Todd Chrisley has been fired from his chaplain’s assistant job for ‘getting too chatty with certain inmates.’

Simply maintaining its funny wouldn’t be especially remarkable, regardless of Ford’s admirable comic timing as the group’s unofficially patriarch/wise man/curmudgeon.

Amos, who was 84, played stern but loving patriarch James Evans in Good Times, one of the first sitcoms about a black family, from 1974.