Sanford, whose late mother played Louise "Weezy" Jefferson on the long-running CBS sitcom CBS via Getty Isabel Sanford as Louise "Weezy" Jefferson in a CBS promo shot. Isabel Sanford personified ...

See the full list. In casting Isabel Sanford for the role of Louise on the hit series “The Jeffersons,” Norman Lear says, “She wasn’t off the first page in the audition before I knew she w ...

Sanford, whose late mother played Louise "Weezy" Jefferson on the long-running CBS sitcom CBS via Getty Isabel Sanford personified royalty. For 11 seasons on The Jeffersons, Sanford — who died ...