Sherman Hemsley strutted into TV history as George Jefferson

Much of that credit belongs to Sherman Hemsley, the gifted character actor who gave life to the blustering black Harlem businessman on "The Jeffersons," one of TV's longest running and most successful sitcoms — particularly noteworthy with its mostlyWith its catchy theme song, "Movin' on Up," the show detailed the travails of an African American couple, played by Sherman Hemsley and Isabel Sanford who ran a successful dry cleaning business in Manhattan. Hemsley

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