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Sherman commonly refers to:

• Sherman (name), a surname and given name (and list of persons with the name)
  • William Tecumseh Sherman (1820–1891), American Civil War General
• M4 Sherman, a tank

Sherman may also refer to:

Places[link]

United States[link]

• Sherman, Texas, a city
• Sherman Island (California)
• Mount Sherman, Colorado
• Sherman, Connecticut, a town
• Sherman, Illinois, a village
• Sherman, Maine, a town
• Sherman, Michigan, an unincorporated community
• Sherman, Minnesota, an unincorporated place in McLeod County, Minnesota
• Sherman, Mississippi, a town
• Sherman, Missouri, an unincorporated community
• Sherman (town), New York
  • Sherman (village), New York
• Sherman, South Dakota, a town
• Sherman, Washington, a ghost town
• Sherman, West Virginia, an unincorporated community
• Sherman, Clark County, Wisconsin, a town
• Sherman, Dunn County, Wisconsin, a town
• Sherman, Iron County, Wisconsin, a town
• Sherman, Sheboygan County, Wisconsin, a town

Elsewhere[link]

• Sherman Island (Antarctica)
• Fort Sherman, a former United States Army base at the Panama Canal
• Sherman Avenue (Hamilton, Ontario), Canada

Fictional characters[link]

• Sherman, the pet boy of the dog Mister Peabody on The Rocky and Bullwinkle Show
• Sherman, the eponymous character in the comic strip Sherman's Lagoon

Other uses[link]

• Sherman (constructor), a former American racing car constructor
• Sherman (Pacific Electric), a former railroad in California, USA
• 21621 Sherman, a main-belt asteroid
• USCGC Sherman (WHEC-720), a United States Coast Guard cutter
• The Sherman (Omaha, Nebraska), an apartment building on the National Register of Historic Places
• Sherman Mine, an abandoned open pit mine in Temagami, Ontario, Canada
• Sherman Mine (Colorado), a mine on Mount Sherman
• Sherman (US Supreme Court case), an 1888 United States Supreme Court case

See also[link]

• Sherman County (disambiguation)
• Sherman Township (disambiguation)
• Sherman Antitrust Act, a 1890 US act
• Sherman Silver Purchase Act, 1890 US act
• General Sherman (disambiguation)
• All pages beginning with "Sherman"
• All pages with titles containing "Sherman"
• Sharman (disambiguation)
• Shearman (disambiguation)
• Shurman

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Trent Williams

Williams at Redskins training camp in 2011.
No. 71     Washington Redskins
Offensive tackle
Personal information
Date of birth: (1988-07-19) July 19, 1988 (age 23)
Place of birth: Longview, Texas
Height: 6 ft 5 in (1.96 m) Weight: 318 lb (144 kg)
Career information
High school: Longview High School
College: Oklahoma
NFL Draft: 2010 / Round: 1 / Pick: 4
Debuted in 2010 for the Washington Redskins
Career history
Washington Redskins (2010–present)
Roster status: Suspended
Career highlights and awards
Consensus All-American (2009) First-team All-Big 12 (2008, 2009)
Career NFL statistics as of Week 17, 2011
Games played 24 Games started 23 Fumbles recovered 0 Stats at NFL.com

Trent Williams (born July 19, 1988) is an American football offensive tackle for the Washington Redskins of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the University of Oklahoma, and was recognized as an All-American. He was considered one of the best tackle prospects available for the 2010 NFL Draft, and was drafted 4th overall by the Washington Redskins.

Early years[link]

Williams was born in Longview, Texas. He attended Longview High School, where he played for the Longview Lobos high school football team. He was a unanimous first-team all-district selection as a senior. Considered a three-star recruit by Rivals.com, Williams was listed as the No. 28 offensive guard prospect in the nation.^[1]

College career[link]

Williams attended the University of Oklahoma, and played for coach Bob Stoops' Oklahoma Sooners football team from 2006 to 2009. Playing as a true freshman, Williams became the starter at right tackle just before the Missouri game in late October 2006 after Branndon Braxton went down with a broken leg, then started the last six games of the season. Williams played 462 snaps, had 75 knockdowns, and was named to The Sporting News' Freshman All-America second team.

In his sophomore year, Williams saw action in all 14 games and had six starts at right tackle, sharing time with Branndon Braxton. As a junior in 2008, he started all 14 games, the first at left tackle and the remaining 13 at right tackle, and registered 131 knockdowns. He was part of a dominant Sooners offensive line that included Duke Robinson, Phil Loadholt and Brandon Walker, and allowed only 11 sacks all season, the third-lowest total of any team in the country. The two teams that finished above them (Air Force and Navy) combined to attempt 231 passes. Oklahoma attempted 476, and became the highest-scoring team in the modern era (702 points).^[2]

The lone holdover from the 2008 offensive line, Williams was listed at No. 2 on Rivals.com′s 2009 preseason offensive tackle power ranking.^[3] He was also named to the 2009 Outland Trophy watch list.^[4] Despite missing the regular season finale due to injury, Williams led Oklahoma with 102 knockdown blocks and 885 plays, and was named an All-American by the American Football Coaches Association.^[5]

Professional career[link]

2010 NFL Draft[link]

Williams was considered one of the best offensive tackles available in the 2010 NFL Draft,^{[6][7][8][9][10]} and draws comparisons to Jammal Brown (who, coincidentally, would also join the Redskins that same offseason via trade).^[11] According to NFL.com's Gil Brandt, "Williams will be a first-round pick and can be a long-time starter in the NFL.".^[12]

Washington Redskins[link]

2010 Season - Present[link]

Williams was drafted fourth overall by the Washington Redskins and agreed to a six-year, $60 million contract on July 30, 2010.^[14] In the 2010 NFL season, Williams made his NFL debut, as well as his first career start, in Week 1 against the Dallas Cowboys.

In the 2011 NFL season, Williams was made a offensive co-captain along with veteran teammate, Santana Moss.^[15] In Week 14, Williams and teammate, Fred Davis, were suspended for four games after repeatedly failing league drug tests.^[16]

References[link]

External links[link]

• Oklahoma Sooners bio
• Washington Redskins bio

Sherman Alexie
Sherman Alexie in 2007
Born	Sherman Joseph Alexie, Jr. (1966-10-07) October 7, 1966 (age 45) Wellpinit, Washington
Occupation	Poet, Short-Story Writer, Novelist, Screenwriter, Filmmaker
Nationality	Spokane/Coeur d'Alene/American
Genres	Native American literature, Humor, Documentary fiction
Literary movement	Indigenous Nationalism
Notable work(s)	• The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian • Smoke Signals (film) • Reservation Blues • The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven • War Dances
Notable award(s)	American Book Award 1996 National Book Award 2007 PEN/Faulkner 2010

Sherman Joseph Alexie, Jr. (born October 7, 1966) is a poet, writer, filmmaker, and occasional comedian. Much of his writing draws on his experiences as a Native American growing up on the Spokane Indian reservation. He currently lives in Seattle, Washington.^[1]

His combinations of poetry, short stories, novels, and films have won several awards. Some of his best known works are The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven (1994), a book of short stories, and Smoke Signals (1998), a film of his screenplay based on The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven.

His first novel, Reservation Blues, received one of the fifteen 1996 American Book Awards.^[2] His first young adult novel, The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian, is a semi-autobiographical novel that won the 2007 U.S. National Book Award for Young People's Literature^[3] and the Odyssey Award as best 2008 audiobook for young people (read by Alexie).^[4] His collection of short stories and poems, entitled War Dances, won the 2010 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction.^[5]

Life[link]

Childhood[link]

Sherman Alexie was born on October 7, 1966^[6] on the Spokane Indian Reservation in Wellpinit, Washington. His father, Sherman Joseph Alexie, was of Coeur d'Alene descent and his mother, Lillian Agnes Cox, of Colville, Flathead, Spokane and white descent.^[7] He was born with hydrocephalus, a condition that occurs when there is an abnormally large amount of cerebral fluid in the cranial cavity.^[8] Because of the hydrocephalus, Alexie underwent brain surgery when he was only six months old.^[7] It was a surgery that he was not expected to survive.^[7] The doctors said that if by chance he were to make it through the surgery, he was expected to suffer from permanent mental disabilities.^[7] However, Alexie's surgery was successful and surprised everyone by surviving with highly advanced mental faculties.^[8] Alexie grew up in Wellpinit, Washington, on the Spokane Indian reservation, in a rough environment with challenging circumstances.^[8] His father was an alcoholic who often left the house for days at a time.^[8] To support her six children, Alexie's mother, Lillian, sewed quilts and worked as a clerk at the Wellpinit Trading Post.^[8]

Alexie's life at the reservation school was also challenging because he was constantly teased by other kids on the reservation. They called him "The Globe" because he had a large head due to the hydrocephalus.^[8] It also didn't help that he had to wear government-issued glasses.^[8] Until the age of seven, Alexie suffered from seizures and bedwetting and had to take strong drugs to control them.^{[9] [8]} He was excluded from many of the activities that are rites of passage for young Indian males because of his health problems.^[9] Despite this rough upbringing, Alexie excelled academically. He loved to read and he read everything he could get his hands on, including auto repair manuals.^[10] By the age of twelve he had read every book in the entire library at his school.^[8] It was clear he was looking for a greater challenge in his education.

Education[link]

In order to better his education, Alexie made the decision to leave the reservation and attend Reardan High School in Reardan.^[8] The school was thirty miles off the reservation and Alexie was the only student of Native heritage among mostly white students.^[9] He excelled at this new school and became a star player on the basketball team, not to mention the only Indian.^{[8] [9]} The team was ironically called the Reardan High Indians.^[8] Along with the basketball team, Alexie was also class president and a member of the debate team.^[8]

His successes in high school won him a scholorship in 1985 to Gonzaga University, a Roman Catholic school in Spokane. ^{[8] [9]} Originally Alexie enrolled in the pre-med program at Gonzaga with hopes of becoming a doctor.^[9] However, he became squeamish in his anatomy classes.^[9] After an unsuccessful try at medicine, Alexie switched to law, but that didn’t work out either.^[9] The pressure of succeeding in college became too much for Alexie and he began drinking heavy amounts of alcohol to cope.^[11] Though he was not happy with his choice of career path, Alexie found comfort in literature classes.^[9] In 1987 he dropped out of Gonzaga University and enrolled at Washington State University (WSU).^[9]

At Washington State, Alexie enrolled in a creative-writing course taught by Alex Kuo. Kuo was also of Indian descent. Alexie was at a low point in his life and Kuo served as a mentor to him.^[7] Kuo gave Alexie an anthology entitled Songs of This Earth on Turtle’s Back by Joseph Bruchac, which is a book that changed his life.^{[7] [9]} The book inspired Alexie to start writing. He was inspired from reading works of poetry that were written by other Native Americans.^[7] With his new appreciation of poetry, Alexie started work on his first collection, The Business of Fancydancing: Stories and Poems, which was published in 1992 through Hanging Loose Press.^{[12] [7]} With the success of his first published work of poetry, Alexie stopped drinking alcohol and quit school just three credits short of a degree. However in 1995 he was awarded a bachelor’s degree from Washington State University.^[9]

Today[link]

In 2005, Alexie became a founding Board Member of Longhouse Media, a non-profit organization that is committed to teaching filmmaking skills to Native American youth, and to use media for cultural expression and social change. Mr. Alexie has long supported youth programs and initiatives dedicated to uplifting at-risk Native youth.^[13]

Alexie is married to Diane Tomhave, who is of Hidatsa, Ho-Chunk and Potawatomi heritage. They live in Seattle with their two sons.^[12]

Literary Works[link]

Alexie's stories have been included in several prestigious short story anthologies, including The Best American Short Stories 2004, edited by Lorrie Moore; and Pushcart Prize XXIX of the Small Presses. Additionally, a number of his pieces have been published in various literary magazines and journals, as well as online publications.

Themes[link]

All of Alexie’s poetry, short stories and novels all assert the same themes: despair, poverty, and alcoholism among the lives of the Native American people.^[11] According to Sarah A. Quirk from the Dictionary of Library Biography, Alexie asks three questions across all of his works: "What does it mean to live as an Indian in this time? What does it mean to be an Indian man? Finally, what does it mean to live on an Indian reservation?"^[7] The protagonists in most of his literary works exhibit a constant struggle with themselves and their own sense of powerlessness among white American society.^[11]

Influences[link]

Alexie’s writings are meant to evoke sadness, but at the same time he uses humor and pop culture that leaves the readers with a sense of respect, understanding, and compassion.^[11] Alexie’s influences for his literary works do not rely solely on “traditional” Indian forms, but instead he “blends elements of popular culture, Indian spirituality, and the drudgery of poverty-ridden reservation life to create his characters and the world they inhabit,” according to Quirk.^[7] As mentioned, Alexie uses humor in all of his works. According to Quirk, he does this as a "means of cultural survival for American Indians-survival in the face of the larger American culture's stereotypes of American Indians and their concomitant distillation of individual tribal characteristics into one pan-Indian consciousness."^[7]

Poetry[link]

Alexie’s career began with the publishing of his first two collections of poetry in 1992, entitled, I Would Steal Horses and The Business of Fancydancing.^[7] In these poems Alexie uses humor to express the struggles of contemporary Indians on reservations. Common themes include: alcoholism, poverty and racism.^[7] Although he uses humor to express his feelings, the underlying message is very somber and serious. The Business of Fancydancing was very well received, selling over 10,000 copies.^[9] Alexie actually refers to his writing as “fancydancing,” which is the name given to the changes made to the traditional dances by Native American veterans from World War II.^[10] To him, it is the mental, emotional, and spiritual outlet that he finds in his writings.^[11] Leslie Ullman commented on The Business of Fancydancing in the Kenyon Review where she wrote that Alexie “weaves a curiously soft-blended tapestry of humor, humility, pride and metaphysical provocation out of the hard realities…: the tin-shack lives, the alcohol dreams, the bad luck and burlesque disasters, and the self-destructive courage of his characters.”^[11]

Alexie’s other works of poetry include:

• Old Shirts and New Skins (1993)^[11]
• First Indian on the Moon (1993)^[11]
• Seven Mourning Songs For the Cedar Flute I Have Yet to Learn to Play (1994)^[11]
• Water Flowing Home (1994)^[11]
• The Summer of Black Widows (1996)^[11]
• The Man Who Loves Salmon (1998)^[11]
• One Stick Song (2000)^[11]
• Face (2009), Hanging Loose Press (April 15, 2009) hardcover, 160 pages, ISBN 978-1-931236-71-3 ^[11]

Fiction[link]

Short Stories[link]

Although well reviewed as a poet, Alexie published his first prose work, entitled The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven, in 1993.^[7] The book consists of a series of short stories that are interconnected throughout the book. There are no dominant characters, but instead, several prominent characters that appear in other works by Alexie. According to Sarah A. Quirk, The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven can be considered a bildungsroman with dual protagonists, “Victor Joseph and Thomas Builds-the-Fire, moving from relative innocence to a mature level on experience.”^[7]

Ten Little Indians is a collection of “nine extraordinary short stories set in and around the Seattle area, featuring Spokane Indians from all walks of urban life,” according to Christine C. Menefee of the School Library Journal.^[11] In this collection, Alexie “challenges stereotypes that whites have of Native Americans and at the same time shows the Native American characters coming to terms with their own identities.”^[11]

War Dances is a collection of short stories, poems, and short works. It won the 2010 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction. The collection, however, received mixed reviews.^[11]

Other short stories by Alexie include:

• The Toughest Indian in the World (2000) (collection of short stories)^[14]
• What You Pawn I Will Redeem (2003), published in The New Yorker[1]

Novels[link]

In his first developed novel, Reservation Blues(1995), Alexie expanded the characters of The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven. He expands on the characters Thomas Builds-the-Fire, Victor Joseph, and Junior Polatkin who have grown up on the Spokane Indian reservation. While in the short story collection they were in their teens, Reservation Blues show the boys in their thirties.^[15] Verlyn Klinkenborg of the Los Angeles Times wrote in a review of Reservation Blues from 1995, "you can feel Alexie's purposely divided attention, his alertness to a divided audience, Native American and Anglo."^[15] Klinkenborg goes on to say that Alexie is "willing to risk didacticism whenever he stops to explain the particulars of the Spokane and, more broadly, the Native American experience to his readers."^[15]

Alexie's young adult novel, The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian is a coming-of-age story that began as a memoir of Alexie's life and family on the Spokane Indian reservation.^[11] The novel focuses on a fourteen year old Indian named Arnold Spirit. The novel is semi-autobiographical in that it includes many of the events and characteristics of Alexie's life.^[11] For example, Arnold was born with hydrocephalus, and was teased a lot as a child, as was Alexie. Also, the story centers around Arnold's transfer to Reardan High School, the same high school that Alexie transferred to as a teenager.^[11] The novel received great reviews. Bruce Barcott from the New York Times Book Review observed, "Working in the voice of a 14-year-old forces Alexie to strip everything down to action and emotion, so that reading becomes more like listening to your smart, funny best friend recount his day while waiting afer school for a ride home."^[11]

Other Novels by Sherman Alexie include:

• Indian Killer (1996)^[11]
• Flight (2007)^[11]

Films[link]

In 1998 Alexie broke barriers by creating the first all-Indian movie, Smoke Signals.^[11] Alexie based the screenplay off of his collection of short stories The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven.^[11] The film was directed by Chris Eyre, a filmmaker Cheyenne-Arapaho heritage and it was produced and acted by Native Americans.^[9] It tells the story of two young Native Americans, Victor Joseph and Thomas Builds-the-Fire, who leave the reservation on a road trip to retrieve the body of Victor’s dead father.^[11] The film took top honors at the Sundance Film Festival.^[11]

Other film projects include:

• The Business of Fancydancing (writer and director, 2002)
• 49? (writer, 2003)
• The Exiles (presenter, 2008)

Awards and honors[link]

1992

• National Endowment for the Arts Poetry Fellowship

1993

• PEN/Hemingway Award for Best First Book of Fiction for the story collection The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven^[7]

1994

• Lila Wallace-Reader's Digest Writers' Award^[7]

1996

• American Book Award (Before Columbus Foundation) for Reservation Blues^[2]
• Granta Magazine: Twenty Best American Novelists Under the Age of 40
• New York Times Notable Book for Indian Killer
• People Magazine: Best of Pages

1999

• The New Yorker: 20 Writers for the 21st Century

2007

• National Book Award, Young People's Literature, for The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian^[3]

2009

• American Library Association Odyssey Award as the year's "best audiobook for children or young adults", read by Alexie (Frederick, MD: Recorded Books, LLC, 2008, ISBN 1-4361-2490-5)^[4]

2010

• PEN/Faulkner Award for War Dances^[5]
• Native Writers' Circle of the Americas Lifetime Achievement Award
• Puterbaugh Award", the first American Puterbaugh fellow
• California Young Reader Medal for The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian^[16]

Translators of Sherman Alexie's works[link]

Alexie's works have been translated into many languages. His translators include:

• Czech - Jiri Hruby, Lubos Snizek
• Hebrew - Lia Nirgad
• Hungarian - Zoltán Holbok
• Japanese - Mizuhito Kanehara
• Punjabi - Gurjap Toor
• Swahili - Kudus Babatunde Akinwande
• Swedish - Ingela Jernberg
• Persian - Amir Mehdi Haghighat
• Tamil - Velupillai Prabhakaran
• French - Valérie Le Plouhinec
• Finnish - Jussi Hirvi
• Dutch - Aleid van Eekelen-Benders

See also[link]

	Poetry portal
	Literature portal

• List of writers from peoples indigenous to the Americas
• Native American Renaissance
• Native American studies

References[link]

Sources[link]

• Nygren, Åse. "A World of Story-Smoke: A Conversation with Sherman Alexie." MELUS 30.4 (Winter 2005): 149-169.
• West, Dennis, and Joan M. West. "Sending Cinematic Smoke Signals: An Interview with Sherman Alexie". Cineaste 23.41998 29-33.
• Alexie, Sherman; Bill Clinton and Tom Lehrer. "A Dialogue on Race with President Clinton". News Hour (July 9, 1998).

External links and further reading[link]

Wikiquote has a collection of quotations related to: Sherman Alexie

• Fallsapart.com, Official Sherman Alexie Site
• Sherman Alexie at the Internet Movie Database
• Voice of the New Tribes article by Duncan Campbell in "The Guardian" January 3, 2003
• Berglund, Jeff and Jan Roush, eds. Sherman Alexie: A Collection of Critical Essays, (2010) ISBN 978-1-60781-008-7.

Interviews

• Identity Theory, Robert Capriccioso interviews Sherman Alexie
• Iowa Review Joelle Fraser interviews Sherman Alexie
• OPB.org, Interview on Oregon Public Broadcasting radio show Think Out Loud (aired October 8, 2009)
• National Book Foundation "Interview With Sherman Alexie" as 2007 Award winner, by Rita Williams-Garcia

Sherman Hemsley
Hemsley in December 1999
Born	Sherman Alexander Hemsley (1938-02-01) February 1, 1938 (age 74) Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.
Occupation	Actor
Years active	1968–present
Signature

Sherman Alexander Hemsley (born February 1, 1938) is an American actor, most famous for his role as George Jefferson on the CBS television series All in the Family and The Jeffersons, and as Deacon Ernest Frye on the NBC series Amen. He also played Earl Sinclair's horrifying boss, a Triceratops named B.P. Richfield, on the Jim Henson sitcom Dinosaurs.

Career[link]

Early life[link]

Hemsley was born and raised in South Philadelphia by his mother, who was a factory worker. He dropped out of school and joined the Air Force, where he served for four years. On leaving the Air Force, he returned to Philadelphia where he worked for the Post Office during the day while attending acting school at night. He then moved to New York, continuing to work for the Post Office during the day while working as an actor at night. He starred as the character Gitlow in the early 1970s Broadway play Purlie.^[1][2]

Work with Norman Lear[link]

Sherman Hemsley performed with local groups in Philadelphia before moving to New York to study with Lloyd Richards at the Negro Ensemble Company. Shortly after, he joined Vinnette Carroll's Urban Arts Company appearing in these productions; "But Never Jam Today", "The Lottery", "Old Judge Mose is Dead", "Moon On A Rainbow Shawl", "Step Lively Boys", "Croesus" and "The Witch". He made his Broadway debut in Purlie and toured with the show for a year. In the summer of 1972 he joined the Vinnette Carroll musical "Sorry, I Cant Cope" ensemble in Toronto, followed a month later in the American Conservatory Theatre production at the Geary Theatre. In this production with arrangement with Edward Padula & Arch Lusterg with music and lyrics by Micki Grant had Hemsley in Act I performing the solo "Lookin' Over From Your Side" and in Act II "Sermon."

While Hemsley was on Broadway with Purlie, Norman Lear called him in 1971 to play the role of George Jefferson on his burgeoning new sitcom, All in the Family. Hemsley was reluctant to leave his theatre role, but Lear told him that he would hold the role open for him. Hemsley joined the cast two years later. The characters of Hemsley and co-star Isabel Sanford were secondary on All in the Family, but were given their own spin-off series, The Jeffersons, less than two years after Hemsley made his debut on the show. Such was Hemsley's and Sanford's compatibility and credibility as a married couple that no one seemed to notice or care that in real life Sanford was twenty years older than Hemsley. The Jeffersons proved to be one of Lear's most successful shows, enjoying a run of 11 seasons through 1985.

1980s and 1990s[link]

Though Hemsley was largely typecast as George Jefferson, he continued to work steadily after the show's cancellation. He teamed up with the show's original cast members when The Jeffersons moved to Broadway for a brief period.

Hemsley joined the cast of NBC's Amen in 1986 as Ernest Frye, an unscrupulous church deacon much like his George Jefferson character. The show enjoyed a run of five seasons, ending in 1991. Hemsley then was a voice actor in the ABC live-action puppet series Dinosaurs, where he played Bradley P. Richfield, main character Earl's sadistic boss. The show ran for five seasons, ending in 1994.

Hemsley has largely retired from television acting, although he and Isabel Sanford appeared together in the late '90s and in the early 2000s, reprising their roles in guest spots on television programs such as The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, commercials for The Gap, Old Navy and Denny's, and dry cleaning conventions. He and Sanford also made a cameo appearance in the film Sprung. They continued to work together on occasion until Sanford began having health problems leading to her death in 2004.

Personal life[link]

Hemsley is a self-proclaimed fan of 1970s progressive rock bands^[3] including Yes,^[3] Gentle Giant and Nektar. On his appearance on Dinah!, Hemsley performed a dance to the Gentle Giant song "Proclamation" from The Power and the Glory. After his dance, Shore was laughing and asked what kind of music that was. Sherman then proceeded to give a 5-minute speech on Gentle Giant.^[4] Hemsley can also been seen wearing a Nektar T-shirt during his interview with Norman Lear when Lear hosted Saturday Night Live from Season 2 Episode 26. In 1999, he collaborated with Yes founder Jon Anderson on an album titled Festival of Dreams which was not released.^[5]

He currently resides in El Paso, Texas.^[3]

Filmography[link]

• Love at First Bite (1979)
• Stewardess School (1986)
• Ghost Fever (1987)
• Club Fed (1990)
• Mr. Nanny (1993)
• Home of Angels (1994)
• The Misery Brothers (1995)
• Sprung (1997)
• Senseless (1998)
• Jane Austen's Mafia! (1998)
• Up, Up, and Away (2000)
• Screwed (2000)
• For the Love of a Dog (2007)
• Hanging in Hedo (2008)
• American Pie Presents: The Book of Love (2009)

Discography[link]

• Dance (1992)

Television work[link]

• All in the Family (1973–1975)
• The Jeffersons (1975–1985)
• The Incredible Hulk (season 2 episode 18 "No Escape")
• Pink Lady (1980) (Guest starred as himself)
• Purlie (1981)^[6]
• E/R (1984–1985) (guest spots as Nurse Julie Williams' uncle George Jefferson)
• The Twilight Zone (1985) as Sam ("I of Newton")
• Alice in Wonderland (1985)
• Candid Camera (1986) as Dick Sherman
• Amen (1986–1991)
• Combat High (1986)
• Camp Cucamonga (1990)
• Martin (guest starred)
• The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air (guest starred as Judge Carl Robertson, and George Jefferson)
• Dinosaurs (1991–1994)
• Townsend Television (1993) (canceled after 4 months)
• The Magic School Bus (1995) (guest starred as Mr. Junkit, in "Revved Up")
• Goode Behavior (1996–1997)
• All That (1997) guest starred in two episodes
• Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman (Portrayed Winslow Schott a.k.a. Toyman in the 1994 Episode "Seasons Greatings")
• Casper: A Spirited Beginning (1997)
• Sister, Sister (guest spots as Tia and Tamera's grandfather)
• Senseless (Smythe-Bates Doorman)
• Clips' Place (1998) (unsold pilot)
• The Hughleys (played Yvonne Hughley's father)
• Figure It Out (1999) (Guest Panelist)
• Up, Up, and Away (2000)
• Mister Ed (2004) (unsold pilot)
• The Surreal Life (cast member in 2006)
• Family Matters (Captain Marion Savage - Carl's superior)
• All That (Good Burger food critic)
• Family Guy, himself in a voice cameo ("The Father, the Son, and the Holy Fonz")
• Tyler Perry's House of Payne (guest starred as George Jefferson)

References[link]

External links[link]

• Sherman Hemsley at the Internet Movie Database
• Archive of American Television interview
• Sherman Hemsley at the Internet Broadway Database