tom willis. helmsley played george jefferson on all in the family.
tom willis. helmsley played george jefferson on all in the family.
who played george jefferson on all in the family?
tom willis. helmsley
the third episode of "all in the family" explained how george jefferson started his dry-cleaning business. george jefferson's son lionel explains that the family used a $3,200 (around $.00, adjusted for current inflation) insurance settlement from a car accident to start jefferson's cleaners. season one, episode nine (3/15/75) indicates it was a $5,000 ($22,658.89 in 2016) whiplash settlement from the city of new york. a christmas flashback episode, which featured sherman hemsley playing his character's father, explained how he got the idea to open a dry cleaning business as a child after his father told him that dry cleaning was expensive. this episode also showed how george had been involved in money-making schemes since childhood, with him working as a shoe-shine boy and paying a schoolmate to push people into mud puddles, forcing them to get their shoes shined. he started his opening his business in 1968 in queens, earned enough money for three years to move into the suburbs of a working-class neighborhood of queens in 1971. over the two years george made enough money to start a chain of dry cleaning stores with locations in manhattan as well as queens. with that, george and louise have enough money to move on up from queens to manhattan and left queens in style with a limousine in an episode in all in the family season 5 to a deluxe penthouse apartment and live the life of luxury.
george jefferson
the lingering cultural impact of the george jefferson character is such that michelle obama, the wife of then-presidential candidate barack obama, referenced george jefferson in a june 2008 interview with the "new york times". referring to an unfounded rumor discussed by a blogger that she had once used the word "whitey" in a speech, michelle obama told the "times": "you are amazed sometimes at how deep the lies can be . . . i mean, ‘whitey’? that's something that george jefferson would say."
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