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    • Isabel Sanford. It takes a special kind of person to keep a guy like George Jefferson in check. The gentle but extremely sharp-tongued Louise Jefferson is the perfect foil to her angry and opinionated husband, and Isabel Sanford played the role so well that she was nominated for the Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series Emmy for seven consecutive years between 1979 and 1985 — and won the award in 1981.
    • Sherman Hemsley. Sherman Helmsley's George Jefferson was a truly trailblazing television protagonist, and the actor was nominated for multiple awards for the role, winning a NAACP Image Award in 1982 and a joint TV Land Award with Isabel Sanford in 2004.
    • Zara Cully. Olivia Jefferson was one of the great sitcom moms. Like the rest of her family, Mother Jefferson debuts in "All in the Family" and immediately develops an antagonistic relationship with Archie Bunker (Carroll O'Connor), thanks to the latter's characteristically ham-fisted comments.
    • Roxie Roker. Roxie Roker, who played Helen Willis in "The Jeffersons," was 66 years old when she died on December 2, 1995 in Los Angeles (per The New York Times).
  1. Dec 23, 2006 · December 23, 2006 4:00am. TWENTYNINE PALMS, California — Actor Mike Evans, best known as Lionel Jefferson in the TV sitcoms “All in the Family” and “The Jeffersons,” has died. He was 57. Evans...

  2. Dec 26, 2006 · The AP reports that Mike Evans, the actor who portrayed Lionel on the 1970s TV series All in the Family and its successful spinoff The Jeffersons, has died of throat cancer at the age of 57. Along with playing the role of Lionel, Evans also wrote for the series Good Times, one of the first sitcoms with an all-black cast.

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  3. Send Flowers. Not the right person? See All ›. Share. Obituary. TWENTYNINE PALMS, Calif. (AP) - Actor Mike Evans, best known as Lionel Jefferson in the TV sitcoms "All in the Family" and "The...

  4. Dec 22, 2006 · Richard Pryor. Actor Mike Evans, who played the affable Lionel on "The Jeffersons," has died at the age of 57 after a long battle with throat cancer in Los Angeles. Evans was best known for...

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  6. Dec 22, 2006 · TWENTYNINE PALMS, Calif. (AP) - Actor Mike Evans, best known as Lionel Jefferson in the TV sitcoms "All in the Family" and "The Jeffersons," has died. He was 57. Evans died of throat cancer...

  7. Dec 22, 2006 · TWENTYNINE PALMS, Calif. (AP) - Actor Mike Evans, best known as Lionel Jefferson in the TV sitcoms "All in the Family" and "The Jeffersons," has died. He was 57. Evans died of throat cancer...

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