Esther Sutherland
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Esther Sutherland | |
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Los Angeles, California , U.S. | |
| Occupation | Actress |
| Years active | 1950–1986 |
Esther Sutherland (August 29, 1932 – December 31, 1986) was an American film actress who made a name for herself in several features of the 1970s and 1980s often portraying nurses, maids, spinster aunts, Jamaican women, cleaning ladies, and matriarch types.
Life and career
She was born on August 29, 1932, in
Methodist, a staunch Democrat
, and she also enjoyed writing poetry, painting in oils, sculpting, and was a volunteer in narrating audiobooks for the blind.
Filmography
- 1968: Riverrun - The Lady
- 1973: Hell Up in Harlem - The Cook
- 1974: Black Belt Jones - Lucy
- 1974: Foxy Brown - Nurse Crockett
- 1974: Truck Turner - Black Momma
- 1974: The Boys (TV Movie) - Cassie Ryan
- 1974: Act of Vengeance - woman at laundromat
- 1974: Kojak (TV Series, Episode: "Hush Now, Don't You Die") - Evangeline
- 1976: The Commitment
- 1973-1977: Sanford and Son (TV Series)
- The Engagement (1973) - Aunt Minnie
- The Reverend Sanford (1977) - Woman #1 (uncredited)
- 1977: The Goodbye Girl - Strip Club Manager
- 1978: Baby, I'm Back(TV Series, Episode: "The Confessions of Col. Wallace Dickey") - Ruby in 1978
- 1978: Battered (TV Movie) - Black Woman in Nursery
- 1980: Archie Bunker's Place (TV Series, Episode: "The Return of Sammy") - Nurse Wilson
- 1980: Stir Crazy - Sissie
- 1980: Lou Grant (TV Series, Episode: "Streets") - Etta
- 1980: 9 to 5 - Janitress
- 1982: Young Doctors in Love - The Nurses - Willa Mae
- 1981-1982: Hill Street Blues (TV Series)
- Film at Eleven (1981) - Haitian woman
- Domestic (1982) - landlady
- 1980-1983: The Jeffersons (TV Series) - Mary
- The Arrival: Part 1 (1980)
- The Arrival: Part 2 (1980)
- Men of the Cloth (1982)
- The Good Life (1983)
- 1985: UFOria - Deaf woman's aunt (final film role)
External links
- Esther Sutherland at IMDb
References
- ^ a b "Esther Sutherland Biography and Filmography 1932". Hollywood.com. August 29, 2017. Archived from the original on August 29, 2017. Retrieved March 2, 2018.
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