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Lynn Hamilton

Acting

Born April 25, 1930 · Yazoo City, Mississippi, USA

Died June 19, 2025

Also known as Alzenia Lynn Hamilton

Biography

Alzenia Lynn Hamilton was an American actress. She was best known for her recurring roles as Donna Harris, Fred Sanford's girlfriend and later fiancée on the sitcom Sanford and Son (1972–1977) and Verdie Grant Foster on The Waltons (1973–1981). She also portrayed cousin Georgia Anderson in Roots: The Next Generations.

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Filmography37 titles

A Star Without a Star: The Untold Juanita Moore Story

2022as Self

Curb Your Enthusiasm

2000as Wanda's Mom

The Jesse Owens Story

1984as Mamma Solomon

Good Times

1974as Mrs. Edwards

Cold Case

2003as Mary Chisolm (2009)

The Practice

1997as Judge Fulton

The Golden Girls

1985as Trudy

The Rockford Files

1974as Eunice Charles Bingham

Life's Work

1996as Mrs. Rader

Knight Rider

1982as Susan Wade

Roots: The Next Generations

1979as Cousin Georgia Anderson

Quincy, M.E.

1976as Mrs. Kellough

Sanford and Son

1972as Donna Harris

Highway to Heaven

1984as Mattie Taylor

Starsky & Hutch

1975as Edith Dobey

Sisters

1991as Alma Hayes

Hawaii Five-O

1968as Mae

Moesha

1996as Ruth Mitchell

NYPD Blue

1993as Doris Becker

Hunter

1984as Velma

The Waltons

1972as Verdie Grant Foster

Sister, Sister

1994as Mother Palmer

Barnaby Jones

1973as Laura Padget

Mannix

1967as Eve Chancellor

Shadows

1958as Girl at Party

227

1985as Emma Johnson

Riptide

1984as Sarah Tolley

Ironside

1967as Nurse Clark

The Learning Tree

1969as Funeral Attendee (uncredited)

Gunsmoke

1955as Mother Tabitha

Murphy Brown

1988as Woman #1

Brother John

1971as Sarah

Leadbelly

1976as Sally Ledbetter

Buck and the Preacher

1972as Sarah

The Vanishing

1993as Miss Carmichael

Legal Eagles

1986as Doreen

Webster

1983as Mrs. Matthews