{"id":2260189,"date":"2026-01-31T19:52:26","date_gmt":"2026-01-31T19:52:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2260189"},"modified":"2026-01-31T19:52:26","modified_gmt":"2026-01-31T19:52:26","slug":"sanford-and-son-star-grady-demond-wilson-dies-at-79-reports-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/sanford-and-son-star-grady-demond-wilson-dies-at-79-reports-say\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Sanford and Son&#8217; star Grady Demond Wilson dies at 79, reports say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<div id=\"beyondwords-wrapper\" class=\"beyondwords-wrapper\">\n<p><span class=\"label-bg\">NEW<\/span>You can now listen to Fox News articles!\n  <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"speakable\">Grady Demond Wilson, the actor best known for playing Lamont Sanford on the popular 1970s series &#8220;Sanford and Son,&#8221; has died at his home in California, according to The New York Times. Wilson was 79 years old at the time of his death.<\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable\"><i>This is a developing story. Please check back for updates.<\/i><\/p>\n<p> <!----> <\/p>\n<div class=\"article-meta\">\n<div class=\"author-bio\">\n<p>Rachel Wolf is a breaking news writer for Fox News Digital and FOX Business.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.foxnews.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Grady Demond Wilson, the actor best known for playing Lamont Sanford on the popular 1970s series &#8220;Sanford and Son,&#8221; has died at his home in California, according to The New York Times. Wilson was 79 years old at the time of his death. This is a developing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2260190,"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":[25172],"tags":[21741,351250,22542],"class_list":["post-2260189","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","tag-entertainment","tag-fox-news-media","tag-obituary"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Sanford-and-Son-star-Grady-Demond-Wilson-dies-at-79.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2260189","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=2260189"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2260189\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2260191,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2260189\/revisions\/2260191"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2260190"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2260189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2260189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2260189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}