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Ned Wertimer has been a familiar TV face since the early 1960s. Best known as Ralph Hart, George Jefferson’s opportunistic doorman, this Buffalo native and graduate of the University of Pennsylvania began his career onstage as an assistant stage manger and an actor. He made his small-screen debut in The Alcoa Hour. In addition to several film credits, he was a guest star on many of the classic TV shows of the 1960s and 1970s: Gunsmoke, Hogan’s Heroes, Get Smart, Car 54, Where Are You?, McMillan And Wife, Sanford and Son, and The Mary Tyler Moore Show. Concurrent with his stint on The Jeffersons, he also appeared on Happy Days, Starsky and Hutch, Welcome Back, Kotter, WKRP in Cincinnati, and Mork & Mindy. His most recent TV spot was as a judge on The Practice. He appeared with his The Jeffersons co-stars on both 227 and Sherman Hemsley’s episode of Living in TV Land.
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