Comedian and actor Anthony Johnson, who played Ezal in Friday and also appeared in House Party, has died. Johnson was 55 years old. Johnson’s representative, LyNea Bell, confirmed the news to The Hollywood Reporter but provided no information on the cause of Johnson’s death. “We lost an icon. He will be greatly missed,” Bell told THR. Johnson’s nephew tells TMZ that he “was found lifeless in a store earlier this month in Los Angeles and rushed to a hospital, where he was pronounced dead.”  Johnson, who sometimes was credited as “A.J. Johnson,” also had roles in Menace II Society, B*A*P*S, How to Be a Player, Hot Boyz, and Lethal Weapon 3, as well as the I Got the Hook-Up series of movies. 

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