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The character is a funny, if unsettling, mirror who at times — like Archie Bunker before him — earns a degree of empathy.

Between the peaks, his career traces the familiar shape of an actor going where the work goes, including a reunion with Norman Lear on the short-lived “704 Hauser,” about a Black family moving into Archie Bunker’s old home; a recurring parts on the UPN Debbie Allen-LL Cool J sitcom, “In the House” and the CBS crime drama “The District”; and the NBC crime drama “Hunter.”

Lear and Amos mended their relationship to the point that Lear gave him top billing in the short-lived CBS sitcom “704 Hauser,” the final “All in the Family” spinoff in which Amos stars as a liberal father who moves into Archie Bunker’s former home in Queens.

The short-lived series starred Amos as the liberal father of a young conservative activist living in Archie Bunker’s old house in Queens.

And he wields insults — ”I have hemorrhoids that are more useful than you” — with a poetic fluency last seen in Archie Bunker, made even more stinging by the educated vocabulary and London accent.