Lynn Hamilton, the actress trained in theater who portrayed the girlfriend of the character of Redd Foxx on Sanford and son And the neighbor is missing verdie Waltonsis dead. She was 95 years old.
Hamilton died Thursday from natural causes at his home in Chicago, said his former director and advertising, Reverend Calvin Carson, said The Hollywood Reporter.
Hamilton also played the role of the Matriarch Vivian Potter on the day drama of the NBC 1989-91 Generations – Who had the unfortunate task of presenting himself against CBS Ratings Juggernaut Young people and agities -And like Cissie Johnson, one of the ex-consumers on syndicated night soap 1991-1992 Dangerous women.
She also played the cousin Georgia Anderson on the 1979 mini-series Roots: the following generations and had recurring roles as Emma Johnson Snippy on NBC 227 And as a judge on ABC Practice.
The actress raised in Chicago made her debut on the big screen in John Cassavetes’ Shadows (1959) and continued to appear in other films such as Brother John (1971), Buck and the preacher (1972) – Both with Sidney Poitier – Lady sings the blues (1972), Lead thief (1976) and Legal eagles (1986).
Hamilton appeared for the first time on NBC Sanford and son During his seventh episode in February 1972, playing an owner who gave Demond Wilson Lamont Sanford a difficult period after obtaining his own baccalaureate after an argument with his father, Fred (Foxx).
The producers were “so impressed by this only scene that a small scene or two later, they decided to give Fred Sanford a girlfriend,” said Hamilton in an interview of 2009. Hired to play the authorized nurse Donna Harris, the Bawdy Foxx told him that his program “needed someone worthy in front of him; he was aware of his land.”
She worked on the sitcom until 1977, and although Donna and Fred got engaged, they never made the knot. It was just very good with Lamont, who called him derisory “Le Barracuda”.
While she is recurrent Sanford and sonHamilton did it Waltis Beginning in February 1973 in the 21st episode of the CBS drama when John-Boy (Richard Thomas) gave Verdie reading and writing of course with his daughter about to obtain her university diploma. (The episode, “The Scholar”, won an Emmy of script for John McGreevey.)
She appeared on 16 other payments from the series until 1981 – Verdie ended up marrying Harley Foster, played by Hal Williams, also from Sanford and son And 227 – and on Waltis Holiday Telefilms in 1993 and 1997.
Alzenia Lynn Hamilton was born on April 25, 1930 in Yazoo City, Mississippi. Her parents, Nancy and Louis, moved the family to Chicago at the age of 4, and she attended Bloom High School in Chicago Heights.
Hamilton has mannequinat and graduated from the Goodman School of Drama Theater, but she “was the only black [actor] In my class, and therefore there was no role for me, ”she said.
However, she acquired an actor experience with a South Side theater company, and after having moved to New York in 1956, she appeared in Shadows and on Broadway in four short -term parts: 1959 Only in America1960 The cool world And Face of a hero and 1963 Tambourines to glory.
Hamilton made Shakespeare for producer Joseph Papp and turned worldwide The miracle And The skin of our teeth As a member of President Kennedy’s cultural exchange program, then joined the Seattle Repertory Theater in 1966.
She auditioned for a role in Funny girl (1968) and did not understand it but decided to stay in Los Angeles, and she made concerts in television shows, especially Salle 222,, Mannix,, Manure,, Rockford files,, Quincy me,, Golden Girls,, NYPD Blue,, Judge Amy And Cold case.
Hamilton was married to the poet and playwright Frank Jenkins (Drive black to Beverly Hills) From 1964 to her death at the age of 89 in 2014 – she returned to Chicago that year – and they collaborated on several productions.
