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
Love at First Bite
Jane Austen's Mafia!
Lady Sings the Blues
Click Three Times
The New Centurions
Original Gangstas
Up the Sandbox
Hickey & Boggs
Night of 100 Stars
Jackie's Back!
The Sensational Shocking Wonderful Wacky 70's
Stand Up and Be Counted
Sprung
Pendulum
The Comic
The Great Man's Whiskers
South Beach
The Red, White, and Black
Pucker Up and Bark Like a Dog
Every Little Crook and Nanny
Desperate Moves
The Young Runaways
The Photographer
TV Shows
Bewitched
Love, American Style
Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman
Intimate Portrait
The Mary Tyler Moore Show
Daniel Boone
All in the Family
The Jeffersons
The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air
Cybill
Living Single
The Steve Harvey Show
Vega$
Pepper Ann
Hangin' with Mr. Cooper
The Parkers
Kojak
Reading Rainbow
The Mod Squad
Dream On
In the House
A Pup Named Scooby-Doo
Crazy like a Fox
