Witman Mayo , Whitman B. Mayo , Grady , Whitman Blount Mayo
Awards
NBA All-Rookie Team
Movies
Boycott, Waterproof, The Seventh Coin, You Must Remember This, Boyz n the Hood, D.C. Cab, The Main Event, The Black Klansman
TV Shows
The Cape, Hell Town, Grady, The Van Dyke Show
Star Sign
Scorpio
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Quote
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I've always played older parts. When I was 19, I played 60. When I was a kid I got pleasure out of studying old people. I took joy in their idiosyncrasies. Older folk are like children. They can do and say what they want and get away with it.
Coincidentally, he died at Atlanta's Grady Memorial Hospital, which bears the same name as his most famous role.
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His last two wives were more than ten years younger than him.
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Is a member of Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity, Incorporated.
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Although he had not disappeared, nor was he hiding, when in 1996 the "Late Night with Conan O'Brien" show wished to use him in a sketch and were unable to locate him or his agent, the show launched a three-week nationwide "Where's Grady" search. The search's hotline received over 50,000 calls of sightings. Mayo eventually did surface and gladly appeared on the show.
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Taught drama at Clark Atlanta University in Atlanta Georgia from 1996 until his death.
Actor
Title
Year
Status
Character
Boycott
2001
TV Movie
Reverend Banyon
Waterproof
2000
Sugar
ER
1999
TV Series
Jesse Morgan
Kenan & Kel
1997
TV Series
Uncle Raymond
The Cape
1996-1997
TV Series
Sweets (owner of the Moonshot Bar & Grill) / Sweets
$1 Million
Grady was a funny character on Sanford and Son.