Producers Guild of America Oscar Micheaux Award 1999
2004 Joined the cast of Fox's "That '70s Show" as a record producer who turns out to be the father of Danny Masterson's Steven character
2003 Wrote, directed and starred in the feature "For Real"
1999 Produced "Asunder", a romantic suspense thriller
1998 Co-created and executive produced the Showtime series "Linc's"
1995 First feature as producer, "Out of Sync"
1995 Feature film directing debut, "Once Upon a Time . . . When We Were Colored" (exhibited at film festivals in 1995; released in 1996)
1991 Formed United Image Entertainment in partnership with Black Entertainment Television founder and president Bob Johnson
1989 Feature acting debut, "Dead Bang"
1983 Joined the cast of the revamped and short-lived NBC sitcom "Teachers Only"
1979 Founded Timalove Enterprises
1977 Appeared as regular on "The Marilyn McCoo and Billy Davis, Jr Show", a CBS summer variety series
1977 Was ensemble player on the short-lived NBC variety show "The Richard Pryor Show"
1976 TV series debut as regular (with the War Babies) on the summer variety series "Easy Does It . . . Starring Frankie Avalon" (CBS)
1968 - 1971 Worked as a sales representative for DuPont Corp.
Formed comedy duo with Tom Dreeson; appeared around the US as "Tim and Tom"
Joined the improv troupe The War Babies
Played radio DJ Venus Flytrap on the popular CBS sitcom "WKRP in Cincinnati"
Played supporting role of Detective Marcel "Downtown" Brown on the popular CBS adventure series, "Simon and Simon", starring Gerald McRaney and Jameson Parker
Executive produced and starred in two critically praised but short-lived series, the half-hour comedy-drama "Frank's Place" (1987-88) and the comedy-mystery series, "Snoops" (1989-90)
Played a leading role in the sitcom, "Sister, Sister" (show aired on ABC in 1994-95 and then on The WB 1995-1999)