WHITMAN MAYO

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Whitman Mayo

Born: 15 / 11 / 1930 , New York , Usa – 22/05/2001

BIOGRAPHY:

In the early 1970s, while working for the New Lafayette Theatre, Norman Lear offered Mayo a role as Grady Wilson on Sanford and Son. The character’s name was based on Grady Demond Wilson, the actor who played Lamont Sanford. During a period where Redd Foxx did not appear on the show due to a contract dispute, Grady moved into the Sanford house and effectively starred in the show for six episodes.

Mayo later starred in Grady, an unsuccessful spin-off in which his character moved in with his daughter and her husband in Beverly Hills. After its cancellation in 1976, Mayo’s Grady character returned to Sanford and Son.

Mayo reprised the role in the unsuccessful 1977 NBC-TV spinoff series Sanford Arms opposite actor Theodore Wilson, and for two episodes of Sanford, another NBC-TV Sanford and Son spinoff, this time opposite Redd Foxx and actor Dennis Burkley, in 1981.

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MORE MOVIE WITH: Whitman Mayo

Boycott
(2001)
Play: Reverend Banyon

Boyz n the Hood
(1991)
Play: The Old Man

D.C. Cab
(1983)
Play: Mr. Rhythm

SERIES TV WITH: Whitman Mayo

Kenan & Kel (1996) Play: Oncle Raymond	Martin (1992) Play: Mr. Mackey	La Vie de Famille “Family Matters” (1989) Play: Fletcher	Sanford (1980) Play: Grady Wilson	Arnold & Willy (1978) Play: Jethro Simpson	Grady (1975) Play: Grady Wilson
Sanford and Son (1972) Play: Grady Wilson