TMZ<\/a>, adding Wilson died from complications of cancer at his home in Palm Springs, California.<\/p>\n\n\tThe Georgia-born, New York City-raised Wilson first performed on Broadway in his pre-teen years and, following a tour of duty in the Vietnam War, moved to Hollywood. Wilson made his big screen credited debut in the Sidney Poitier-starring The Organization in 1971, and on the small screen, on Mission: Impossible and All in the Family.<\/p>\n
\n\tIt was the latter role, where Wilson played a robber in the episode, that brought him to the attention of producer Bud Yorkin, who was developing an American remake of the British sitcom Steptoe and Son. Wilson was cast alongside comedian Redd Foxx in the series, retitled Sanford and Son and revolving around a father-and-son tandem at a Watts, Los Angeles salvage yard.<\/p>\n
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\n\tFrom 1972 to 1977, Sanford and Son was a ratings smash for NBC, and the show ran for six seasons, until Foxx\u2019s contract disputes and ultimately his exit to start his own variety show ended the series.<\/p>\n
\n\tFollowing the series\u2019 conclusion, Wilson starred in the short-lived series Baby\u2026 I\u2019m Back!, made multiple guest appearances on The Love Boat, and played Oscar Madison in 1982\u2019s The New Odd Couple. Following that series, Wilson dedicated his life to ministry, making one more small-screen appearance for a four-episode arc on UPN\u2019s Girlfriends in 2005.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Actor played Lamont Sanford alongside Redd Foxx’s Fred Sanford for six seasons of hit Seventies sitcom Demond Wilson,…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":557163,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[30],"tags":[171,32175,9455,4857,173,67,132,68],"class_list":["post-557162","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-entertainment","tag-obit","tag-obituary","tag-sanford-and-son","tag-tv","tag-united-states","tag-unitedstates","tag-us"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115991850781170946","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/557162","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=557162"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/557162\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/557163"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=557162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=557162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=557162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}