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[BDBoop]

George Jeferson, aka Sherman Hemsley, has passed at the age of 74.

http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20614528,00.html

 

[Sallow]

Rip

 

[Moonglow]

and now, the man that I loved to laugh at:

Sherman Hemsley, who played cantankerous dry cleaner George Jefferson on the hit sitcom "The Jeffersons," was found dead Tuesday in his El Paso, Texas, home, TMZ reports, He was 74.

'The Jeffersons' Star Sherman Hemsley at 74 (Report) - Yahoo! TV

 

[Trajan]

RIP



Sherman Hemsley: A tribute to the great George Jefferson, and more


Sherman Hemsley, the man who brought George Jefferson to vivid life, has died at age 74. The accomplished stage actor achieved his widest fame in a role he raised to comic greatness: George Jefferson, the egotistical, strutting centerpiece of The Jeffersons.

Hemsley took a part that could have been clownish and exaggerated — George Jefferson, the braying entrepeneur striving to, as the show’s theme song said, “move on up” — and made George a vivid, three-dimensional character, and an important advance in the depiction of black characters in sitcoms. George’s ego and selfishness were often brought into line by his wife, Isabel Sanford’s Louise Jefferson (George’s beloved “Weezy&#8221, but the force of the character derived from the tremendous ambition, frustration, and anger George felt toward the world.
http://watching-tv.ew.com/2012/07/24/sherman-hemsley-dead-died-george-jefferson/

 

[hjmick]

I was always entertained by the similarities between George and his erstwhile neighbor Archie.

Two shows that couldn't get green lighted today...

So long Sherman.

Easy on the starch.

 

[Trajan]

I was always entertained by the similarities between George and his erstwhile neighbor Archie.

Two shows that couldn't get green lighted today...

So long Sherman.

Easy on the starch.

agreed.