Danny "Big Black" Rey (born Daniel Ray in 1934 in Savannah, Georgia) is an American actor, musician, percussionist specializing Latin und Ethnic Jazz music. Danny made an uncredited guest appearance on Good Times in Season 1 as Ed, a driver, valet and paid crusade person, for Reverend Sam, an old buddy of James', who's a televangelist, who poses as a cripple pretending to be held in his traveling crusades in the episode "God's Business is Good Business".