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The news of Wilson’s death was confirmed to TMZ by his son, who said the actor died due to complications from cancer.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Wilson is best known for playing Lamont Sanford, the son of Redd Foxx<\/a>‘s Fred, on “Sanford and Son<\/a>” throughout the show’s entire six-season run from 1972 to 1977.<\/p>\n After the NBC sitcom wrapped, Wilson went on to star as Raymond Ellis<\/a> in the first and only season of “Baby… I’m Back!<\/a>” Later, the actor starred in “The New Odd Couple<\/a>,” ABC’s 1982 remake of…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.imdb.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Grady Demond Wilson, who starred in the NBC sitcom “Sanford and Son,” has died. He was 79.\u00a0 The news of Wilson’s death was confirmed to TMZ by his son, who said the actor died due to complications from cancer.\u00a0 Wilson is best known for playing Lamont Sanford, the son of Redd Foxx‘s Fred, on “Sanford […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2260157,"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-2260156","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\/Grady-Demond-Wilson-Sanford-And-Son-Actor-Dead-At-79.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2260156","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=2260156"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2260156\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2260158,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2260156\/revisions\/2260158"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2260157"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2260156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2260156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2260156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}