1. Theodore Rosevelt Wilson was an American stage, film, and television actor.
12 Facts About Theodore Wilson
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Theodore Wilson is best known for his recurring roles as Earl the Postman on the ABC sitcom That's My Mama, and Sweet Daddy Williams on the CBS sitcom Good Times and Phil Wheeler on the NBC sitcom Sanford Arms.
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Theodore Wilson made his acting debut in the blaxploitation film, Cotton Comes to Harlem, in 1970.
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Theodore Wilson made his television debut in a two-episode role as Hawthorne Dooley on the television series The Waltons.
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In 1973, Theodore Wilson was cast as the character High Strung on the CBS sitcom Roll Out.
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In September 1976, Theodore Wilson was offered and signed a contract with Tandem Productions, the production company owned by Bud Yorkin and Norman Lear, who produced some of the most popular television sitcoms of the 1970s.
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In 1976, Theodore Wilson was cast as Sweet Daddy Williams, a street hustler on the CBS sitcom Good Times.
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In Sanford Arms, Wilson starred as Phil Wheeler, an Army veteran and widower who has purchased the Sanford Arms, a rooming house, from his old Army buddy Fred G Sanford, the Foxx character from Sanford and Son.
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Theodore Wilson continued to work throughout the late 1980s and early 1990s, appearing in Alien Nation, Dallas, Family Matters, Tales from the Crypt, Gabriel's Fire, Mama's Family, and Quantum Leap.
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Theodore Wilson made his last onscreen appearance in Blood In Blood Out, a 1993 crime drama released after his death.
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On July 21,1991, Theodore Wilson died of complications from a stroke at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, at the age of 47.
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Theodore Wilson had undergone open-heart surgery several years prior to his death.