On "The Jeffersons," Hemsley played a dry-cleaning tycoon who'd worked his way up from a small store to a chain. Isabel Sanford played his wife Louise, whom George often called Weezie, and Marla ...

Sherman Hemsley, a comic actor who vaulted from a supporting role on Norman Lear’s groundbreaking 1970s sitcom “All in the Family” to a lead role as George in the spinoff “The Jeffersons ...

Sherman Hemsley died at his home in El Paso at age 74. He first played George Jefferson on "All in the Family" before he was spun off onto "The Jeffersons." ...

EL PASO, Texas -- George Jefferson was a bigot. A loudmouth. Rude. Obsessed with money. Arrogant. And yet he was one of the most enjoyable, beloved characters in television history. Much of that ...

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.

The Associated Press LOS ANGELES -- Actress Isabel Sanford, best known as "Weezie" Louise Jefferson on the television sitcom "The Jeffersons," died of natural causes, her publicist said Monday.

The deluxe apartment on the East Side will never be the same. Her publicist says Isabel Sanford, best known as Louise "Weezie" Jefferson on the sitcom "The Jeffersons," has died of natural causes.

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.

EL PASO, Texas — Sherman Hemsley, the actor who made the irascible, bigoted George Jefferson of "The Jeffersons" one of television's most memorable characters and a symbol for urban upward ...

LOS ANGELES — 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.