When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. In 1981, Ed Jones (nicknamed "Too Tall" for his 6'9" stature) was playing for the Dallas Cowboys ...

The series stars Gary Coleman and Todd Bridges as Arnold and Willis Jackson, two African American boys from Harlem who are taken in by a rich white Park Avenue businessman named Phillip Drummond and ...

Read up on the latest Diff'rent Strokes News, Reviews and Features from the team at Collider. Diff'rent Strokes follows the lives of Arnold and Willis Jackson, two African American boys from Harlem ...

From 1978 to 1986, audiences tuned into Diff'rent Strokes, one of the all-time greatest sitcoms, to see what Gary Coleman's Arnold Jackson and his blended family were up to next (and to hear his ...

It’s a bird, it’s a plane, it’s… Kevin Hart as Super Arnold? The cast of Facts of Life will be announced at a later date. The legendary Norman Lear — whose Embassy Television produced both Diff’rent ...

Todd Bridges thinks Gary Coleman was “around the wrong people” following his child stardom. The 59-year-old actor played Willis Jackson on the sitcom Diff’rent Strokes alongside Gary Coleman, who died ...

Coleman played Arnold Jackson on the sitcom from the ages of 10 to 18, but his character remained a child. In 1978, Coleman was cast as the precocious, preternaturally charismatic orphan Arnold ...