Isabel Sanford
Born August 29, 1917 · New York City, New York, USA
Isabel Sanford (born Eloise Gwendolyn Sanford; August 29, 1917 – July 9, 2004) was an American stage, film, and television actress and comedian best known for her role as Louise "Weezy" Mills Jefferson on the CBS sitcoms All in the Family (1971–1975) and The Jeffersons (1975–1985). In 1981, she became the second African-American actress to win a Primetime Emmy Award after Gail Fisher, and so far, the only African-American actress to win for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series. Description above from the Wikipedia article Isabel Sanford, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Notable Appearances
Movies
Guess Who's Coming to Dinner
Jane Austen's Mafia!
Love at First Bite
Night of 100 Stars
The New Centurions
Hickey & Boggs
Lady Sings the Blues
Up the Sandbox
Sprung
Jackie's Back!
Stand Up and Be Counted
Pendulum
The Comic
The Sensational Shocking Wonderful Wacky 70's
Original Gangstas
The Great Man's Whiskers
Every Little Crook and Nanny
Pucker Up and Bark Like a Dog
South Beach
The Photographer
The Red, White, and Black
The Young Runaways
Desperate Moves
Click Three Times
TV Shows
Love, American Style
The Mary Tyler Moore Show
Bewitched
Daniel Boone
Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman
Intimate Portrait
The Steve Harvey Show
The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air
All in the Family
Kojak
Pepper Ann
The Parkers
Cybill
Crazy like a Fox
Reading Rainbow
Hangin' with Mr. Cooper
Vega$
The Dean Martin Celebrity Roasts
Living Single
The Mod Squad
Dream On
In the House
Temperatures Rising
