"She starved her distraction and fed her focus," says Sanford K. Sanford, whose late mother played Louise "Weezy" Jefferson on the long-running CBS sitcom CBS via Getty Isabel Sanford as Louise ...

A bite to eat with her history-making Emmy Isabel Sanford and Sherman Hemsley at the Pasadena Civic Auditorium for the Emmys in 1981. (Ron Galella / Ron Galella Collection via Getty Images) ...

Actress Isabel Sanford, best known as "Weezie," Louise Jefferson on the television sitcom "The Jeffersons," died of natural causes, her publicist said Monday. She was 86. Sanford died Friday at ...

Isabel Sanford, the first black woman to win an Emmy for best actress in a comedy series for her co-starring role in "The Jeffersons," has died.

LOS ANGELES — Actress Isabel Sanford, best known to audiences for her role as the quick-witted wife Louise "Weezy" Jefferson on the television sitcom The Jeffersons, has died at age 86, her ...

Actress Isabel Sanford, best known as “Weezie,” Louise Jefferson on the television sitcom “The Jeffersons,” died of natural causes, her publicist said Monday.

Lovable actress Isabel Sanford, who kept America in stitches as Weezie on the “The Jeffersons” and tore down racial barriers on TV, has died of natural causes at the age of 86. In poor … ...

Siblings build casket for beloved father from items he had collected Robert McCormick of Sanford, a mason, landscaper and maintenance man, died July 16 at age 70.

LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Actress Isabel Sanford, best known as "Weezie," Louise Jefferson on the television sitcom "The Jeffersons," died of natural causes, her publicist said Monday. She was 86.

Alexander Payne’s The Holdovers is set in the last weeks of 1970 and, if attention is paid, you’ll see Da’Vine Joy Randolph pay homage to Isabel Sanford, particularly how the tv legend wore ...

The casket was so heavy, it took all of McCormick’s children to carry him into the Unitarian Universalist Church in Sanford for his service on Friday. The church was standing room only.