'Jeffersons' star Sherman Hemsley dies

Wednesday, July 25, 2012

EL PASO, Texas -- Sherman Hemsley, the actor who made the irascible, bigoted George Jefferson of "The Jeffersons" one of television's most memorable characters and a symbol for urban upward mobility, has died. He was 74.

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