Gary Veney appeared on Good Times as Tyrone Tyler, a shy, timid, talentless comic which J.J. backs in the Season 4 episode titled "The Comedian and the Loan Sharks". Gary also has appeared in the 1980 made for TV movie The Night the City Screamed, and the big screen films Mortuary Academy (1988), Act of Violence (1979) and Gus Brown and Midnight Brewster (1985). Gary also appeared on Stevie Wonder's "Songs in the Key of Life" album (1976) on the song, "Black Man" as one of the teachers asking historical questions.