George Jefferson is a fictional character played by Sherman Hemsley in American television sitcoms All in the Family (from 1973 until 1975) and its spin-off The Jeffersons (1975-1985). Hemsley was the second actor (behind Sanford) to appear in all 253 episodes.
George Jefferson was born in Harlem in 1929, an ambitious African American entrepreneur who started and managed a successful chain of seven dry cleaning stores in New York City. The only b...
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George Jefferson is a fictional character played by Sherman Hemsley in American television sitcoms All in the Family (from 1973 until 1975) and its spin-off The Jeffersons (1975-1985). Hemsley was the second actor (behind Sanford) to appear in all 253 episodes.
George Jefferson was born in Harlem in 1929, an ambitious African American entrepreneur who started and managed a successful chain of seven dry cleaning stores in New York City. The only background on the Jefferson family is that they were Alabama sharecroppers. In a very early episode, George's wife Louise makes mention of a conversation she had with George's father after she and George were married about the Jeffersons family roots. However, the show's writers later applied a retroactive change in the continuity of George's father, such that he had died when George was 10 years old. This left George to take care of his mother; therefore, George was unable to complete high school. He was a cook in the US Navy during the Korean...
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