Sanford and Son - "Aunt Esther and Uncle Woodrow Pffttt . . ." - 04:30 am Saturday, December 6 on WSMV get (Great Entertainment Television)

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Aunt Esther and Uncle Woodrow Pffttt . . .

Season 3, Episode 22

Grady creates a disaster when he persuades meek Uncle Woodrow to defy his domineering wife. Grady: Whitman Mayo. Uncle Woodrow: Raymond Allen. Aunt Esther: LaWanda Page. Aunt Minnie: Hilda Haynes. Lamont: Demond Wilson.

repeat 1974 English

Comedy Sitcom

Cast & Crew

Demond Wilson (Actor) .. Lamont Sanford

LaWanda Page (Actor) .. Aunt Esther Anderson

Whitman Mayo (Actor) .. Grady Wilson

Raymond Allen (Actor) .. Woody Anderson

Hilda Haynes (Actor) .. Aunt Minnie

Dorothy Meyer (Actor) .. Aunt Flossie

Don Bexley (Actor)

Marlene Clark (Actor)

Bud Yorkin (Actor)

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Did You Know..

Demond Wilson (Actor) .. Lamont Sanford

Born: October 13, 1946
Birthplace: Valdosta, Georgia, United States

Trivia: Began his acting career at the age of 4 with an appearance in the Broadway play Green Pastures. Was drafted by the Army and served a tour of duty in Vietnam. Guest-starred on an Emmy-winning episode of All in the Family, which helped him earn a lead role on the popular sitcom Sanford and Son. Scaled back his acting work after experiencing a spiritual awakening and becoming a minister in 1983. Is also a writer whose works include several children's books and the memoir Second Banana: The Bitter Sweet Memoirs of the Sanford & Son Years.

LaWanda Page (Actor) .. Aunt Esther Anderson

Born: October 19, 1920
Died: September 14, 2002

Trivia: A comedienne turned actress who rose to fame as outspoken bible-thumper Aunt Ester in Redd Foxx's hit sitcom Sanford and Son, LaWanda Page performed with such other famous contemporaries as Richard Pryor and Rudy Ray Moore before finding success on the small screen. A native of Cleveland who grew up in St. Louis, Page first hit the stage as an exotic dancer and chorus girl billed "the Bronze Goddess of Fire" (due to her penchant for playing with fire on-stage) before fully realizing her talents as a standup comic. Subsequently approached by Foxx to star in Sanford and Son, Page tickled television viewers' funny bones with her memorable role as Foxx's aggressively religious sister-in-law in the original series' spin-off The Sanford Arms, and the 1980 revival Sanford. Throughout the 1980s and '90s, Page crafted a feature-film career with minor roles in such comedies as Zapped! (1982), My Blue Heaven (1990), Friday (1995), and Don't Be a Menace to South Central While Drinking Your Juice in the Hood (1996). Always retaining her fiery approach to comedy, Page also performed on-stage in productions of The Inquest of Sam Cooke and Take It to the Lord...Or Else. On September 14, 2002, LaWanda Page died from complications of diabetes in Los Angeles, CA. She was 81.

Whitman Mayo (Actor) .. Grady Wilson

Born: November 15, 1930

Raymond Allen (Actor) .. Woody Anderson

Hilda Haynes (Actor) .. Aunt Minnie

Born: January 01, 1913
Died: January 01, 1986

Trivia: Actress Hilda Haynes got her start with the American Negro Theater in the 1940s and from there went on to appear in many theatrical productions. She has also appeared in a few films between the early '50s and the late '70s including Taxi (1953), Home from the Hill (1960) and Diary of a Mad Housewife. Haynes has also appeared in several television movies and was an active member of a theatrical union.

Dorothy Meyer (Actor) .. Aunt Flossie

Born: January 01, 1924
Died: January 01, 1987

Don Bexley (Actor)

Born: March 10, 1910
Died: April 15, 1997

Marlene Clark (Actor)

Born: December 19, 1937
Died: May 18, 2023
Birthplace: New York City, New York, United States

Trivia: Marlene Clark, a black supporting actress and occasional lead, appeared on screen beginning in the '70s.

Bud Yorkin (Actor)

Born: February 22, 1926
Died: August 18, 2015

Trivia: Born in Washington, PA, Bud Yorkin attended Carnegie Tech after service in the U.S. Navy beginning at age 16, and became a television engineer at NBC in 1949. He was already an established producer/director on television, specializing in variety shows featuring Martin and Lewis, Abbott and Costello, and George Gobel. He formed a partnership with producer Norman Lear in 1959, which yielded several Yorkin-directed films including Come Blow Your Horn (1965), Divorce American Style (1967), Inspector Clouseau (1968 -- starring Alan Arkin), and Start the Revolution Without Me (1970). In the early '70s, Yorkin and Lear created All in the Family, a groundbreaking topical situation comedy that completely redefined television comedy with its relatively realistic scripts and subject matter, for which Yorkin was executive producer. Since then his film career has resumed without exceptional success, including an appearance as an actor in 1990's For the Boys. He mostly retired from the industry in the mid-1990s, other than appearing in some TV documentaries. Yorking passed away in 2015, at age 89.