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| Birth Name(s) : Sherman Hemsley |
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Full Sherman Hemsley Biography
Sherman Hemsley (born February 1, 1938 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) is an Emmy Award nominated and NAACP Image Award winning, and Golden Globe nominated African American character actor most famous for his role as George Jefferson, on the television shows All in the Family and The Jeffersons and as Deacon Ernest Frye on Amen. He also played Earl Sinclair's horrifying boss, a Triceratops named B.P. Richfield on the Jim Henson sitcom, Dinosaurs.
Hemsley and his TV wife, Isabel Sanford, were very popular as the Jeffersons, but were typecast by the roles and were mostly limited to guest TV appearances and cameo appearances in movies, appearing in The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, Designing Women, In Living Color, Family Matters, The Wayans Bros., Sister, Sister, Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman and The Hughleys.
In 1984, Hemsley and Sanford had a special guest appearance on the Italian TV show Grand Hotel (playing their Jeffersons role); they were also invited to the Gran Premio Internazionale della TV, an Italian TV award show (similar to Emmy Awards) promoted by TV Sorrisi e Canzoni magazine, where they got the 'Telegatto' award for the best sitcom aired on Italian TVs. Hemsley was known to be a frequent guest caller on Tom Snyder's ABC Radio show.
In 1987, Hemsley met with President Ronald Reagan and Soviet Prime Minister Mikhail Gorbachev during a celebrity appearance at the Cleveland International Peace Proceedings. Hemsley spoke with the two leaders, and was quoted as saying, "This Cold War guys - it's freezing out the little guy". It is unclear exactly to what Hemsley was referring.
In 2006, Hemsley appeared on the sixth season of VH1's The Surreal Life. He also made a cameo appearance in Family Guy as himself making a George Jefferson religion..
In 2007, Hemsley appeared on the California Franchise Tax Board's list of the top 250 taxpayers with liened state income tax delinquencies greater than $100,000, owing over $340,000. cite |
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