Actress Who Played 'Weezie' On 'Jeffersons' Dies

[Kadie]

Actress Who Played 'Weezie' On 'Jeffersons' Dies

POSTED: 12:30 pm EDT July 12, 2004

LOS ANGELES -- Actress Isabel Sanford died of natural causes in a Los Angeles hospital.

Her longtime manager reports the Emmy award-winning star of the long-running "The Jeffersons" television series died Friday in Cedars-Sinai Medical Center. Sanford began playing "Weezie" Jefferson in the "All in the Family" series in 1971.

"The Jeffersons" followed for 11 seasons.

Sanford played Tillie the housekeeper in the 1967 film, "Guess Who's Coming to Dinner."

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[Bertha Venation]

1. Bummer.

:cry:

[calico1]

12. I loved The Jeffersons!

What a great show. She was great in it too. Its very sad.
:cry:

[maxpower]

2. That's sad

I loved Weezie growing up. She and George were wonderful together.

[stopbush]

3. Quick! Postpone the elections NOW or the terrorists win!!!

A nation in mourning can't make the right decision. We've lost Raygun, Brando and now Weezie within a few short months. People are grief stricken and can't think straight and won't be able to think straight by November. They may vote against bush!!

What if Michael Jackson is found guilty? Or Scott Peterson? Or Kobe? Plus - unknown terror attacks on the way at unknowable times at undecipherable places. Sounds pretty imminent to me...at least as imminent as Saddam's WMD!!

Maybe we should institute martial law right now.

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

4. Awww I loved her..she did a bunch of great roles

[joeybee12]

5. NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!

I loved Weezie!

Rest in peace, Isabel!

[joeybee12]

6. Remember when she won her Emmy? She came onstage licking

her fingers from eating some cake backstage. It was like her 10th nomination, and she had yet to win, and I guess she figured she wouldn't that time, so she was erlaxing and taking it easy when her name was announced!

[RebelOne]

7. So sorry to hear that. She was great.

[Archae]

8. Just saw here in a TV ad!

Some kind of dusting gadget, George and "Weezy" are in a pool.

[Beware the Beast Man]

9. Movin' on up

To that deluxe apartment in the sky.

Congratulations, I'm officially the 14, 946th person to use that pun in the past hour :eyes:

[GreenPartyVoter]

10. I really liked her. :^(

[PopSixSquish]

11. Go in Peace Isabel

You'll be missed.

I loved the Jeffersons. Funniest episode is the one where they are on a cruise for mystery writers.

[Renew Deal]

13. Very sad.

She was a great actress.

:cry:

[pagerbear]

14. Remember the Jeffersons before it got spun off?

When they were on All in the Family? They were great.

(Sherman Hemsley was not the first George, BTW.)

[Kat45]

15. It was a long time before they showed George; instead, it was

his brother Henry that they showed. 'Cause George had never gone into 'whitey's' house and he wasn't going to start at the bottom.

[Kat45]

16. Bye, Weezie. Isabel has gone home.

Rest in Peace.

[goclark]

17. RIP She was a great actress

[montana_hazeleyes]

18. Good-Bye Weezie

We are losing so many wonderful entertainers who made us laugh and made us cry.