William Stanford Davis has been acting for decades yet receives a pittance of residuals.“I’ve been a screen actor for 35 years.
I’ve been in the guild about 32 years and I’ll let this speak for itself,” the Abbott Elementary star, 71, said in a Friday, July 21, Instagram video, in which he held up a residual paycheck.Davis, who portrays custodian Mr.
Johnson on the ABC sitcom, revealed that he earned a total sum of $0.05 for an undisclosed rerun of a past TV show he appeared on. “You see that?
Can you believe that? That’s [five] cents,” he added. “The postage, the paper, everything costs more than that. That’s what they think of us as actors.
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