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Lynn Hamilton, known in part for her roles in the classic TV shows The Waltons and Sanford and Son, has passed away.

Per The Hollywood Reporter, it has been reported that Hamilton died on Thursday at her home in Chicago, Illinois. According to her publicist, Rev. Calvin Carson, Hamilton died of natural causes. She was 95 years old.

Hamilton was born on April 25, 1930, in Yazoo City, Mississippi, to parents Nancy and Louis. Raised in Chicago, she graduated from the Goodman School of Drama Theater, but as the only Black performer in her class, she said "there weren't any roles" for her at the time. However, she continued to perform and gain experience after moving to New York in 1956. She would act on Broadway in the late 1950s and early 60s.

Hamilton made her feature film debut in 1959 with a role in the movie Shadows. She would later appear in the Sidney Poitier...

Lynn Hamilton, the theater-trained actress who portrayed the girlfriend of Redd Foxx’s character on Sanford and Son and the neighborly Miss Verdie on The Waltons, has died. She was 95.

Hamilton died Thursday of natural causes at her home in Chicago, her former manager and publicist, Rev. Calvin Carson, told The Hollywood Reporter.

Hamilton also starred as the matriarch Vivian Potter on the 1989-91 NBC daytime drama Generations — which had the unfortunate task of running up against CBS ratings juggernaut The Young and the Restless — and as Cissie Johnson, one of the ex-cons featured on the 1991-92 syndicated nighttime soap Dangerous Women.

She also played Cousin Georgia Anderson on the 1979 miniseries Roots: The Next Generations and had recurring roles as the snippy Emma Johnson on NBC’s 227 and as a judge on ABC’s The Practice.

The Chicago-raised actress made her big-screen debut in John Cassavetes’ Shadows (1959) and went...

The cultural impact of satanic megahit Rosemary’s Baby (1968) was substantial and immediate. All of a sudden supernatural horror was in vogue, whether directly mentioning the Big S or delving into covens and cults. Somehow if money was to be made, Lucifer would be there with his asbestos lined suitcase ready to take donations from one and all. Which brings us to the small screen’s Crowhaven Farm (1970), an ABC Movie of the Week that terrified TV audiences with the knowledge that not all evil has to be metropolitan.

Originally airing on Tuesday, November 24th, Crowhaven Farm’s closest competition was CBS’s Hee Haw, but even those yokels couldn’t beat ABC’s juggernaut, which always won its time slot. And while it may not be a match for Rosemary’s devilish wit and urbane horror (not much is), Crowhaven Farm still offers plenty of spooky, countrified atmosphere.

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A memorial service in honour of literary agent Lew Weitzman, who died on Jun 30 aged 76, has been set for Jul 24 in Los Angeles.

Weitzman specialised in International Relations at UCLA and following military service joined McA, then the world’s largest talent agency.

In 1966 he moved to William Morris Agency for seven years, specialising in writers and producers, before going on to found Lew Weitzman and Associates, which he supervised for the next ten years.

In 1983 Weitzman sold the agency to the Sy Fisher Company and became head of the agency unit. He remained there until 1988, when the Writers Guild strike forced him to establish Preferred Artists Agency, which endures to this day.

His career clients included Dallas producer Leonard Katzman, Smokey And The Bandit and The Green Berets writer James Lee Barrett, as well as Jim Byrnes, John McGreevey, John Baskin and Roger Shullman, Jay Moriarity and Mike Milligan, Ann Beckett, [link...

Longtime literary agent Lew Weitzman died June 30 at the age of 75. During his 40-plus year career Weitzman represented dozens of TV and film writers including Dallas producer/writer Leonard Katzman, Smokey And The Bandit and The Green Berets scribe James Lee Barrett, Jim Byrnes, John McGreevey, John Baskin, Roger Shulman, Jay Moriarty, Mike Milligan, Ann Beckett, Paul Cooper, and Dick Christie. Weitzman started out at McA then in 1966 moved on to the William Morris Agency where he spent the next seven years specializing in writers and producers. Weitzman formed his own agency, Lew Weitzman and Associates which he sold in 1983 to the Sy Fisher Company, a division of Taft Entertainment. He became head of the agency unit, and remained there until the Writers Guild strike in 1988. He later formed Preferred Artists Agency, where his son Paul Weitzman currently is a literary agent. His other son, TV writer Matt Weitzman is a co-creator of American Dad!