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Grady Demond Wilson<\/a>, who starred on the 1970s sitcom Sanford and Son<\/a> under the stage name Demond Wilson<\/a>, is dead at 79. Demond Wilson Jr., the actor\u2019s son, told TMZ that his father died of cancer-related complications and was pronounced dead at his home in Palm Springs, California, on Friday, January 30. \u201cI loved him,\u201d Demond Jr. added. \u201cHe was a great man.\u201d Grady<\/a> was one of two leads of Sanford and Son<\/a>, playing Lamont Sanford, the long-suffering son of cantankerous junk dealer Fred G. Sanford (Redd Foxx<\/a>). An American adaptation of the British sitcom Steptoe and Son<\/a>, Sanford and Son<\/a> aired six seasons on NBC<\/a> between 1972 and 1977 and ranked as…<\/div>\n

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Grady Demond Wilson, who starred on the 1970s sitcom Sanford and Son under the stage name Demond Wilson, is dead at 79. Demond Wilson Jr., the actor\u2019s son, told TMZ that his father died of cancer-related complications and was pronounced dead at his home in Palm Springs, California, on Friday, January 30. \u201cI loved him,\u201d […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2259882,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25177],"tags":[25538,31714,21751,22556,21993,22860,21912,21738,24141,22205,21913],"class_list":["post-2259881","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities","tag-actors","tag-actresses","tag-celebrities","tag-directors","tag-films","tag-hollywood","tag-movies","tag-news","tag-stars","tag-television","tag-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Demond-Wilson-Dies-\u2018Sanford-and-Son-Star-Was-79.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2259881","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2259881"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2259881\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2259883,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2259881\/revisions\/2259883"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2259882"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2259881"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2259881"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2259881"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}