Sanford and Son - "Tyranny, Thy Name is Grady" - 04:00 am Saturday, December 6 on get (Great Entertainment Television)

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.

Whitman Mayo (Actor) .. Grady Wilson

Born: November 15, 1930

Raymond Allen (Actor)

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.

LaWanda Page (Actor) .. Aunt Esther

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.

Nathaniel Taylor (Actor) .. Rollo

Born: March 31, 1938

Beverly Hope Atkinson (Actor) .. 1st Girl

Born: January 01, 1935
Died: December 11, 2001

Trivia: Though her first role as a sassy prostitute who gives George C. Scott a piece of her mind in The New Centurions may not have been the most flattering role to launch a career with, stage, screen, and television actress Beverly Hope Atkinson would later get the chance to shine in expanding on her sometimes sympathetically desperate characterizations with a recurring role as a troubled drug addict in Steven Bochco's Hill Street Blues.A New York native who studied under Lee Strasberg in the 1960s and later became a member of the Actors Studio, Atkinson attended New York's City College before joining the Café LaMama Theater troupe on the East Coast, and Theater West in Los Angeles. Frequently touring on-stage, Atkinson relocated to Hollywood in the 1970s and essayed the majority of her roles while residing in California. Following up Centurions with film roles in Cornbread, Earl and Me (1975) and on the small screen in Law and Order (1976) and Skag (1980), Atkinson continued to work on-stage as she essayed roles in television and film. In December of 2001, Atkinson died of cancer in Los Angeles. She was 66.

Sanford and Son: Tyranny, Thy Name is Grady

04:00 am - 04:30 am, Saturday, December 6 on get (Great Entertainment Television) ()

Tyranny, Thy Name is Grady

Season 3, Episode 21