Sherman Hemsley of TV's 'The Jeffersons' dies

Much of that credit belongs to Sherman Hemsley, the gifted character actor who gave life to the blustering black Harlem businessman on "The Jeffersons," one of TV's longest running and most successful sitcoms—particularly noteworthy with its mostlyLet us now, in our hearts or with our bodies, do a funky little dance, a cocky little walk, in praise and memory of Sherman Hemsley, who played George Jefferson for a dozen years in the 1970s and 1980s -- and in scattered cameos thereafter -- and diedDeath Summary: Sherman Hemsley died of natural causes on July 24th, 2012. Hemsley

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