The Only Major Actors Still Alive From Sanford And Son
Love it or hate it, “Sanford and Son” is one of the most groundbreaking American sitcoms of all time. The NBC series about a widowed get-rich-quick schemer (Redd Foxx) living in Los Angeles’ Watts neighborhood with his adult son (Demond Wilson) was an undeniable hit during its run.
It ushered in a Golden Age of Black family sitcoms thanks to dynamic performances, frank dialogue written from a working-class Black perspective, and its often uproarious scripts.
It was such a ratings juggernaut that it’s often credited for killing off its much more sanitized competition, “The Brady Bunch.”