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Whitman Mayo is a Actor American born on 15 november 1930 at New York City (USA)

Whitman Mayo

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Birth name Whitman Blount Mayo
Nationality USA
Birth 15 november 1930 at New York City (USA)
Death 22 may 2001 (at 70 years) at Atlanta (USA)

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

Biography

Early years

Whitman Blount Mayo was born in New York City, New York, and grew up in Harlem and Queens. At the age of seventeen he moved with his family to Southern California and from there entered the United States Army, serving from 1951 to 1953 during the Korean War. Upon release, he studied at Chaffey College, Los Angeles City College, and UCLA. During this time he began acting in small parts, while waiting tables, working in the vineyards and as a probation officer as well as a variety of other small jobs. He also spent seven years as a counselor to delinquent boys.


Career

In the early 1970s, while working for the New Lafayette Theatre, Norman Lear offered Mayo a role as Grady Wilson on Sanford and Son. The character's name was based on Grady Demond Wilson, the actor who played Lamont Sanford. During a period where Redd Foxx did not appear on the show due to a contract dispute, Grady moved into the Sanford house and effectively starred in the show for four episodes.

Mayo would later star in Grady, an unsuccessful spin-off in which his character moved in with his daughter and her husband in Beverly Hills. After its cancellation in 1976, Mayo's Grady character returned to Sanford and Son.

Mayo reprised the role in the unsuccessful 1977 NBC-TV spinoff series Sanford Arms opposite actor Theodore Wilson, as well as for two episodes of Sanford, another NBC-TV Sanford and Son spinoff, this time opposite Redd Foxx and actor Dennis Burkley, in 1981.

Also in the late 1970s, Mayo appeared on the Los Angeles children's television program That's Cat, offering sage advice in a sweet manner to the main character, Alice.

In 1991 he appeared in an episode of Full House called "The Volunteer". He played a senior named Eddie Johnson.

In 1996, Late Night with Conan O'Brien spent several weeks trying to have Mayo appear on the show. The show aired a mock episode of Unsolved Mysteries. On February 8, 1996, Mayo appeared on Late Night, to much fanfare.

Mayo also played a role in The Cape as Sweets, the owner of Moonshot Bar and Grill.

Mayo made several film appearances, including The Main Event with Barbra Streisand, D.C. Cab, Boyz n the Hood and Waterproof with Burt Reynolds. Mayo also appeared as Reverend Banyon on the BET TV Movie Boycott in 2001 and in an episode of Martin. He hosted Liars and Legends on Turner South.

Mayo taught drama at Clark Atlanta University. He opened a travel agency in Inglewood, California.


Death
Mayo died of a heart attack at Atlanta's Grady Memorial Hospital. He had resided in Atlanta's Historic Collier Heights community since 1994 and was survived by his third wife, Gail Mayo. His son, Rahn Mayo, became a member of the Georgia House of Representatives in 2009.

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Jon Peters
Jon Peters
(2 films)
Dror Soref
Dror Soref
(1 films)
Source : Wikidata

Filmography of Whitman Mayo (7 films)

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The Seventh Coin, 1h32
Directed by Dror Soref
Origin USA
Genres Adventure
Actors Peter O'Toole, Navin Chowdhry, Alexandra Powers, John Rhys-Davies, Ally Walker, Jill Novick
Roles Propriétaire du magasin du coin de la rue
Rating46% 2.332652.332652.332652.332652.33265
Peter O'Toole is Emil Saber, a retired British soldier and collector of ancient coins and Biblical artifacts. To complete his collection of king Herod's coins, Emil travels to Jerusalem to seek out the seventh and final one. In his search for the coin, Emil begins to lose his mind and eventually believes that he is the reincarnated Herod himself.
Final Shot: The Hank Gathers Story, 1h32
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Themes Sports films, Basketball films
Actors Duane Davis, George Kennedy, Nell Carter, Sam Hennings, Reynaldo Rey, Whitman Mayo
Roles Nick
Rating68% 3.432853.432853.432853.432853.43285
This film follows the life of basketball legend Eric "Hank" Gathers, from his growing up in the ghettos of Philadelphia to his freshman year at USC through his brief career playing basketball for Loyola Marymount University, where he collapsed during a game and died of a heart ailment.
Boyz n the Hood, 1h42
Directed by John Singleton
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Crime, Romance
Themes Films about families, Films about music and musicians, Hip hop films, Musical films, Gangster films
Actors Ice Cube, Cuba Gooding Jr., Morris Chestnut, Laurence Fishburne, Nia Long, Angela Bassett
Roles The Old Man
Rating77% 3.8988053.8988053.8988053.8988053.898805
In 1984, ten-year-old Tre Styles lives with his single mother Reva in Inglewood, California. After Tre gets involved in a fight at school, his teacher informs Reva that Tre is rather intelligent, but he is immature and lacks respect. Worried about Tre's future, Reva sends him to live in the Crenshaw neighborhood of South Central Los Angeles with his father, Furious Styles, from whom she hopes Tre will learn valuable life lessons. In Crenshaw, Tre reunites with his friends, Darrin "Doughboy" Baker, Doughboy's maternal half-brother Ricky, and Chris, their mutual friend. That night, Tre hears his father shooting at a burglar who tried to rob the house. Police officers arrive more than an hour later, and while the Caucasian officer is civil, the African-American officer treats Furious with disrespect and contempt.
D.C. Cab
D.C. Cab (1983)
, 1h40
Directed by Joel Schumacher
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Action, Adventure, Crime
Themes Transport films, Films about the labor movement, Films about automobiles
Actors Adam Baldwin, Max Gail, Mr. T, Gary Busey, Charlie Barnett, Gloria Gifford
Roles Mr. Rhythm
Rating54% 2.7496952.7496952.7496952.7496952.749695
Naive but good natured young man Albert Hockenberry (Baldwin) arrives in Washington, D.C. with plans to work for his late father's army buddy Harold (Gail), owner of the run-down District of Columbia Cab company. Aware of the sorry state of his business and from the growing competition from the popular Emerald Cab Company, Harold wants to clean it up but doesn't have the financial means to do so. Complicating matters is the motley group of cab drivers that he has working for him. They all see driving as a dead end job while they wait for better lives, until Albert inspires them to work as a team.
The Main Event, 1h52
Directed by Howard Zieff
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Romantic comedy, Romance
Themes Sports films, Martial arts films, Boxing films, Le boxe anglaise
Actors Barbra Streisand, Ryan O'Neal, Paul Sand, Patti D'Arbanville, Whitman Mayo, Earl Boen
Roles Percy
Rating54% 2.7486552.7486552.7486552.7486552.748655
Hillary Kramer (Streisand), a successful perfume magnate awakes one morning to find that her accountant has robbed her blind and left for South America. Going through all of her remaining assets she finds a boxer, purchased as a tax write off. She decides to take Eddie "Kid Natural" Scanlon (Ryan O'Neal) who is much more at home giving driving lessons, into the ring and use him as her key to riches. Eddie thinks this will only get him killed and resists.