George Jefferson

George Jefferson is a fictional character played by Sherman Hemsley in American television sitcoms All in the Family (from 1973 until 1975) and its spin-off The Jeffersons (1975–1985). Hemsley was the second actor (along with Isabel Sanford) to appear in all 253 episodes. George Jefferson was born in Harlem in 1929, an ambitious African American entrepreneur who started and managed a successful chain of seven dry cleaning stores in New York City. The only background on the Jefferson family is that they were Alabama sharecroppers. In a very early episode, George's wife Louise makes mention of a conversation she had with George's father after she and George were married about the Jeffersons family roots. However, the show's writers later...