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Cover died at the Lillian Booth Actors Home in Englewood, New Jersey, on February 5, 2006. He had been living there since December 2005 while recovering from a heart condition, and died of pneumonia.
Feb 11, 2006 · LOS ANGELES, Feb. 10 - Franklin Cover, who became a familiar face as George and Louise Jefferson's neighbor in the long-running sitcom "The Jeffersons," died on Sunday in Englewood, N.J. He was 77....
Feb 10, 2006 · Franklin Cover, who became a familiar face as George and Louise Jefferson’s white neighbor in the long-running TV sitcom “The Jeffersons,” has died, his publicist said Thursday. He was 77.
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- Isabel Sanford. It takes a special kind of person to keep a guy like George Jefferson in check. The gentle but extremely sharp-tongued Louise Jefferson is the perfect foil to her angry and opinionated husband, and Isabel Sanford played the role so well that she was nominated for the Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series Emmy for seven consecutive years between 1979 and 1985 — and won the award in 1981.
- Sherman Hemsley. Sherman Helmsley's George Jefferson was a truly trailblazing television protagonist, and the actor was nominated for multiple awards for the role, winning a NAACP Image Award in 1982 and a joint TV Land Award with Isabel Sanford in 2004.
- Zara Cully. Olivia Jefferson was one of the great sitcom moms. Like the rest of her family, Mother Jefferson debuts in "All in the Family" and immediately develops an antagonistic relationship with Archie Bunker (Carroll O'Connor), thanks to the latter's characteristically ham-fisted comments.
- Roxie Roker. Roxie Roker, who played Helen Willis in "The Jeffersons," was 66 years old when she died on December 2, 1995 in Los Angeles (per The New York Times).
Franklin Cover, the Broadway actor who played the interracially married white neighbor, Tom Willis, on TV's "The Jeffersons," died Feb. 5 at age 77, his publicist said.
Franklin Cover Birthday and Date of Death. Franklin Cover was born on November 20, 1928 and died on February 5, 2006. Franklin was 77 years old at the time of death. Birthday: November 20, 1928. Date of Death: February 5, 2006. Age at Death: 77.
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Franklin Cover. Actor: Wall Street. Franklin Cover was born on 20 November 1928 in Cleveland, Ohio, USA. He was an actor, known for Wall Street (1987), Almost Heroes (1998) and The Stepford Wives (1975). He was married to Mary Bradford Stone. He died on 5 February 2006 in Englewood, New Jersey, USA.
