Tolbert's acting career continued after The Jeffersons ended. She guest-starred on various TV shows, including 7th Heaven, ...

The cast of the TV sitcom ‘The Jeffersons’ in 1977 | Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images Sherman Hemsley. Hemsley was born on Feb. 1, 1938, in Philadelphia.

The cast of "The Jeffersons": Front row, from left: Roxie Roker, Isabel Sanford, Mike Evans. Back row, from left: Franklin Cover, Paul Benedict, Sherman Hemsley ...

In 1993, key cast members, including Sanford, Hemsley, Gibbs, Cover and Roxie Roker, who played Tom Willis’ wife Helen, reunited for a live stage production called The Best of the Jeffersons ...

In the second half of Wednesday’s Live in Front of a Studio Audience: Norman Lear’s All in the Family and The Jeffersons, the formidable tag team of Jamie Foxx and Wanda Sykes took center ...

“The Jeffersons” benefitted from a larger cast than seen in Lear’s other hits, too, allowing for more storylines to explore. Costars included Marla Gibbs as the Jeffersons’ housekeeper, ...

The Jeffersons is a TV classic and until 2012 (when Tyler Perry’s House of Payne beat it) was the longest-running sit-com featuring a predominantly Black cast. It ran on CBS for 253 episodes ...

Gibbs, the sole surviving member of The Jeffersons‘ core adult cast, earned five consecutive Emmy nods for playing the family’s tart-tongued maid. In addition to One Day at a Time, ...

With “The Jeffersons,” Lear, always determined to be provocative, has gone a step further. For the first time in a regular TV series two regular cast members are partners in an interracial ...

The Jeffersons Live cast was executive produced by Lear, Kimmel, Brent Miller, Will Ferrell, Adam McKay and Justin Theroux. The show, directed by James Burrows (Will & Grace, ...

“The Jeffersons” cast also included Wanda Sykes as Louise, while Will Ferrell and Kerry Washington appeared as Tom and Helen Willis, respectively, and renowned character actor Stephen ...