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