When Whitman Mayo would walk on stage at the old Hacienda Hotel and "surprise" Redd Foxx during his show, no one was more proud of the familiar character actor than the Strip resort's security ...

Surroudning them were recurring characters like LaWanda Page's ultra-religious Esther Anderson, Whitman Mayo's Grady Wilson, Nathaniel Taylor's Rollo Lawson, Gregory Sierra's (Chano from Barney Miller ...

ATLANTA (AP) -- Whitman Mayo, who played Grady Wilson on the 1970s television series "Sanford and Son," died Tuesday. He was 70. Mayo, who has taught drama at Clark Atlanta University since 1996, ...

Question: Whatever happened to Whitman Mayo? I heard he teaches at a college somewhere. And does Demond Wilson have a ministry that ministers to inmates? Answer: Mayo, who played Grady on TV’s ...

Whitman Mayo, the actor who made that phrase part of the 1970s American lexicon as Grady Wilson, the gray-bearded sidekick of Redd Foxx on television’s popular “Sanford and Son,” died Tuesday in ...

Whitman Mayo, the actor who made that phrase part of the 1970s American lexicon as Grady Wilson, the gray-bearded sidekick of Redd Foxx on television’s popular Sanford and Son, has died. He was 70. Mr ...

Whitman Mayo, the actor who made that phrase part of the 1970s American lexicon as Grady Wilson, the gray-bearded sidekick of Redd Foxx on television’s popular “Sanford and Son,” has died. He was 70.

Whitman B. Mayo (November 15, 1930 – May 22, 2001) was an American actor best known for his character Grady Wilson on the 1970s television sitcom Sanford and Son. Noted for portraying characters older ...