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