Wilson died Friday of complications from cancer at his home in Palm Springs, his son Demond Wilson Jr. told TMZ.
On the strength of his performance on the 1971 All in the Family episode “Edith Writes a Song” — he and Cleavon Little are burglars from Harlem who hold the Bunkers hostage in their home — Wilson was hired as Lamont Sanford, the son of aging widower Fred G. Sanford, proprietor of Sanford and Son Salvage at 9114 South Central Ave. in Watts.
“After learning about the series format, I was doubtful about my involvement in the project. I thought about it long and hard and decided to take a chance,” Wilson says in the 2011 book Black and Blue: The Redd Foxx Story. “Redd and…
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