Earlier than he performed Archie Bunker’s equally outspoken neighbor, George Jefferson, on All within the Household, and earlier than George moved on as much as a dee-luxe condominium within the sky in The Jeffersons, Sherman Hemsley was a stage actor with a ardour for music. However it was Jefferson (and Norman Lear‘s groundbreaking sitcoms) who would flip the intensely non-public, Philadelphia born Hemsley into an leisure trailblazer.
Lear was so satisfied that Hemsley was the correct man to play Jefferson that he waited a full two years for the actor to wrap his theater commitments and report back to the All within the Household set. Lear’s instincts have been appropriate: Hemsley parlayed the present’s writers’ phrases, plus snippets of actual individuals from Hemsley’s personal early years, into a personality that confirmed a Black patriarch character in a brand-new manner.
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