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Lynn Hamilton, Actress on ‘Sanford and Son’ and ‘The Waltons,’ Dies at 95

She also appeared four times on Broadway and on the soap operas 'Generations' and 'Dangerous Women.'

Hamilton also starred as the matriarch Vivian Potter on the 1989-91 NBC daytime drama Generations — which had the unfortunate task of running up against CBS ratings juggernaut The Young and the Restless — and as Cissie Johnson, one of the ex-cons featured on the 1991-92 syndicated nighttime soap Dangerous Women. While she was recurring on Sanford and Son, Hamilton made her Waltons debut in February 1973 on the 21st episode of the CBS drama when John-Boy (Richard Thomas) gives Verdie reading and writing lessons with her daughter about to graduate from college. Hamilton did Shakespeare for producer Joseph Papp and toured around the world in The Miracle Worker and The Skin of Our Teeth as a member of President Kennedy’s cultural exchange program, then joined the Seattle Repertory Theatre in 1966.

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