Hemsley first appeared as the curmudgeonly Jefferson in 1973 on "All in the Family" before starring in spinoff sitcom "The Jeffersons." Isabel Sanford played his patient wife Louise Jefferson ...

They were one of the most popular 1970s’ and ’80s TV couples: Louise and George Jefferson, played by Isabel Sanford and Sherman Hemsley. Spun off from All in the Family, the character of ...

When Isabel Sanford began working on All in the Family early in the first season of the show in 1971, she soon realized that her character of Louise Jefferson was being fashioned after housewives ...

George and Louise Jefferson (Sherman Hemsley and Isabel Sanford) were plain rich. Credit the Black Panthers. At least, in part. As racial barriers fell and onscreen representation increased in ...

finished second to the fast mare Louise Jefferson in a dash race that was timed in 2:09 1/2. View Full Article in Timesmachine » Advertisement ...

The spin-off series to All In The Family centered around George and Louise Jefferson, a prosperous Black couple who were able to move from Queens (where they lived next door to Archie and Edith ...

CANTON − Sitting side by side, the local theater actors portraying George and Louise Jefferson from the popular 1970s and '80s television show nailed their roles. Rufus Malone Jr. and Kathy J.

"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 personified ...

Louise Jefferson, 93, of Rogers, Ark., a lifelong resident and pioneer business woman, passed away Friday, November 21, 2014 at her residence in Rogers. She was born March 9, 1921 in Pea Ridge ...

the formidable tag team of Jamie Foxx and Wanda Sykes took center stage as George and Louise Jefferson, the movin’-on-upwardly-mobile couple played by Sherman Hemsley and Isabel Sanford in the ...

It ran for 11 seasons and had a very distinctive theme song. Main characters George and Louise Jefferson move to Queens from Manhattan as they see an uptick in social status and financial wealth.