Gibbs herself played the Jeffersons' maid, Florence Johnston. At the time a TV novice and mother of three, Gibbs had been working as a reservation agent for United Airlines and figured she'd have a ...

Sanford never forgave the affront. -Sherman Hemsley played the family’s proudly outspoken patriarch George Jefferson and learned of The Jeffersons cancellation while reading the newspaper.

“Shortly later I was cast as Louise Jefferson, the Bunker’s neighbor.” Sherman Hemsley as cantankerous George Jefferson, however, did not appear on All in the Family until the season four ...

Norman Lear's "The Jeffersons," an "All in the Family" spinoff, was a record-setting Black comedy. But it made important history in other ways.