who was the original actor to play george jefferson?
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Sherman Hemsley Sherman Hemsley. Sherman Alexander Hemsley (February 1, 1938 – July 24, 2012) was an American actor and comedian best known for his role as George Jefferson on the CBS television series All in the Family and The Jeffersons, Deacon Ernest Frye on the NBC series Amen and B.P. Richfield on the ABC series Dinosaurs.
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Biography He and his father John Cromwell have both made films about US Presidents. James has played Lyndon B. Johnson and George Bush, as well as two other fictional Presidents on The West Wing (1999) and The Sum of All Fears (2002). His father, John Cromwell, directed Abe Lincoln in Illinois (1940).
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Harold Gould Harold Vernon Gould (December 10, 1923 – September 11, 2010) was an American actor best known for playing Miles Webber on the 1985-1992 sitcom The Golden Girls and Martin Morgenstern in the 1974-1978 sitcom Rhoda.n Soap, Gould played the hospital roommate of Jody Dallas (Billy Crystal) who has suicidal feelings while deciding whether or not to undergo a sex change. Gould's character sometimes refers to Jody as a 'fagela', which is Yiddish for a homosexual man. Gould as Martin Morgenstern on The Mary Tyler Moore Show in 1973.
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- Other Actors Who Played Superman. Other actors have played the role -- Ray Middleton, Bud Collyer, Lee Quigley, Kirk Alyn, Brandon Routh and Bob Holliday, and Tom Welling, in Smallville -- though none gained the fame nor consistency in the role of the previous three.he Original Superman. George Reeves was perhaps the first enduring figure of Superman on the big screen. Others had played the role, but after his 1951 debut in Superman and the Mole Men, Reeves went on to an extended run with Superman on the small screen in the TV series The Adventures of Superman.
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Patton Oswalt Patton Oswalt. Patton Peter Oswalt (born January 27, 1969) is an American stand-up comedian, writer, actor and voice actor, known for roles such as Spencer Olchin in the sitcom The King of Queens (1998–2007), voicing Remy in the film Ratatouille (2007), and playing multiple identical brothers, the Koenigs, on Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. (2014–17).
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Randolph Scott George Randolph Scott (January 23, 1898 – March 2, 1987) was an American film actor whose career spanned from 1928 to 1962.
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- Jefferson was governor of Virginia from 1779-1781. When he was elected, the American people were fighting the Revolutionary War. After he was governor, he returned to Monticello to tend his plantation. In 1782, his wife Martha died. She left three daughters, Martha, Mary and Lucy.
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The Jeffersons Louise Jefferson, played by Isabel Sanford, first appeared in the All in the Family episode Lionel Moves Into the Neighborhood, which was broadcast on March 2, 1971. The episode, the eighth of the series, centers on Louise, her son Lionel, and her husband George's moving next door to Archie and Edith Bunker in the working-class section of Queens. Lionel, played by Mike Evans, first appeared in Meet the Bunkers, the premiere episode of All in the Family. Norman Lear created the character of George Jefferson specifically for Hemsley.
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- Only 2014 Samsung 4K TVs are compatible. Every 2014 series of Samsung 4K/UHD TV features the necessary DIRECTV 4K Ready TV with built-in RVU technology, according to the company's support site, including models like the HU9000 and HU8550.
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- By doviedovie, Dec 23, 2010. Ralph Carter was a very energetic young man, and as Michael Evans (named after one of the show's creators who also played the original Lionel on The Jefferson's) was the backbone of the strong militant black male. Some of the other reviewers here have asked where he is today.
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Grandpa is played by Al Lewis. He was born on April 30, 1923, in Brooklyn, New York. In 1949, at the suggestion of a friend, Lewis turned to acting and joined the Paul Mann Actor's Workshop in New York. Al worked in burlesque and vaudeville theaters across the country, which led to other theater endeavors and eventually to Broadway. By the 1950's he was on almost every live TV show out of New York. Al ran for governor of New York in 1998. Al Lewis died at the age of 83 on February 4, 2006 after a long illness.
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George Peppard, Versatile Actor, Dies at 65 May 10, 1994 | MYRNA OLIVER | TIMES STAFF WRITER. George Peppard, the actor who first achieved prominence opposite Audrey Hepburn in the film Breakfast at Tiffany's and was better known to modern audiences as the tough, cigar-chomping mercenary Hannibal Smith, leader of television's The A-Team, has died. He was 65.
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The Character of Jefferson in A Lesson Before Dying Jefferson, a black man condemned to die by the electric chair in the novel, A Lesson Before Dying, by Ernest J. Gaines, is perhaps the strongest character in African-American literature.
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Christopher Showerman Christopher Showerman (born June 24, 1971) is an American film and television actor, best known for his role as George in George of the Jungle 2.howerman was asked to play the part of George. Showerman met his predecessor at a charity event some months after the movie's completion. I was in Las Vegas with our visual effects crew shooting some exteriors and stayed the same hotel as Brendan while he was working on the new Looney Tunes movie.
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Preston Burke Preston Xavier Burke, M.D. is a fictional character from the medical drama television series Grey's Anatomy, which airs on ABC in the United States.he character of Preston Burke was originally envisioned as a caucasian, to be played by Paul Adelstein, who now stars in Grey's Anatomy ‍‍ '​‍s spin-off Private Practice.
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David Lodge Tuesday 21 October 2003 06.28 EDT. The actor David Lodge, who has died at the age of 82, is best remembered for the string of British film comedies in which he appeared with Peter Sellers, such as Two Way Stretch (1960), where he played the amiable safecracker Jelly Knight, and Return Of The Pink Panther (1975).
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Preston Burke The character of Preston Burke was originally envisioned as a caucasian, to be played by Paul Adelstein, who now stars in Grey's Anatomy ‍‍ '​‍s spin-off Private Practice.saiah Washington has been nominated for multiple awards for his portrayal of Preston Burke. He and the Grey's Anatomy cast won Best Ensemble in a Television Series at the 2006 Satellite Awards. He was awarded Outstanding Actor in a Drama Series twice at the NAACP Image Awards, in 2006 and 2007.
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The Jeffersons In the 1996 series finale of The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, the Jeffersons made a guest appearance and bought the house from the Banks family. In an episode of Tyler Perry's House of Payne in 2011, Sherman Hemsley and Marla Gibbs reprised their roles of George Jefferson and Florence Johnston.he show was launched as the second spin-off of All in the Family, on which the Jeffersons had been the neighbors of Archie and Edith Bunker. The show was the creation of prolific television producer Norman Lear.
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George O'Malley George O'Malley. George O'Malley is a fictional character from the medical drama television series Grey's Anatomy, which airs on the American Broadcasting Company (ABC) in the United States. The character was created by series producer Shonda Rhimes, and was portrayed by actor T. R. Knight from 2005 to 2009.
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George Hamilton (actor)  (Courtesy Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia) George Stevens Hamilton (born August 12, 1939) is an American film and television actor.
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- WBTV, Channel 3 News, Weather, Traffic - | WBTV Charlotte. Former Charlotte officer who went missing in Mooresville found deadFormer Charlotte officer who went missing in Mooresville found dead Mooresville police say 40-year-old Michael Scott Bell last talked with family around 5 p.m. Wednesday.
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- The Jeffersons is an American sitcom that was broadcast on CBS from January 18, 1975, through July 2, 1985, lasting 11 seasons and a total of 253 episodes.The show was produced by the T.A.T. Communications Company from 1975 to 1982 and by Embassy Television from 1982 to 1985.he Jeffersons premiered the following week, January 18, 1975, and 253 episodes were produced and aired during its 11-year run. George's career as a dry-cleaner began in the first season of All in the Family, in the episode Oh, My Aching Back (though the character himself did not appear on-camera).
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Celebrity deaths in 2016: Famous people we've said goodbye to this year (photos) 1 Abe Vigoda, character actor in The Godfather and Barney Miller, died at 94 on Jan. 26. 2  Paul Kantner, Jefferson Airplane co-founder and guitarist, died at 74 on Jan. 28.  Signe Anderson, the original Jefferson Airplane singer who was replaced by Grace Slick, died at 74 on Jan. 28, the same day as Kantner.
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George Hamilton: 'I'm still looking for new lovers at 75' YOU’RE about to see a lot more of George Hamilton. The suave, debonair and perpetually tanned star of TV’s Dynasty and hit movies such as Love At First Bite, Evel Knievel and The Godfather III is poised to unleash on British audiences two new movies, a TV comedy, two documentaries, and a book on modern manners.
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- Blue Velvet Actor George Dickerson Dies at 81. Jan 18, 2015 12:51 PM EST. George Dickerson, who played Det. John Williams in Blue Velvet, died earlier this month at age 81. According to a note posted by his son, Dome Karukoski, on Facebook, Dickerson had been ill. My father passed away on Saturday, Karukoski wrote on Jan… Read more.
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- Staged by Penny Metropulos and featuring Harry Groener in the title role, Cyrano de Bergerac reunites the artistic team of CST's acclaimed 2011 production The Madness of George III (Jeff Award, Production of a Play) in this homage to love and poetry.nd as Cyrano, which is a true bear of a role, her leading actor, Harry Groener (brilliant as the title character in King George III), once again demonstrates his masterful way with language, as well as his impressive physical grace, including a fearless way with Rick Sordelet's thrilling fight choreography.