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The Simmses were old neighbors and friends of George and Louise when they lived in Harlem who visit them in the episode "Former Neighbors" in Season 1. | ||||
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Gender: | Male (Roy Simms) Female (Natalie Simms) | |||
Occupation/ Career: |
Waiter (Roy's Job) Seamstress/domestic (Natalie's job) | |||
Character description: |
Old friends of George and Louise who visit when George had a meeting arranged with snobbish socialite Coleman Harris. | |||
Character information | ||||
Appeared on: | The Jeffersons in the episode titled "Former Neighbors" in Season 1 | |||
Character played by: | Ernie Lee Banks and Maye Henderson |
Roy and Natalie Simms were old accquaintances and friends of George and Louise Jefferson in a Season one episode of The Jeffersons titled "Former Neighbors". The parts of the Simmses were played by veteran character actors Ernie Lee Banks and Maye Henderson.
About The Simmses[]
Roy and Natalie, who were old neighbors of the Jeffersons when they lived in Harlem, had planned to visit George and Louise at the same time a wealthly socialite named Coleman Harris (Santiago González) was to visit, which threw a monkey wrench into George's plan to impress Harris. When Harris puts down the Simmses simple, down-home ways by insinuating that they were the type of people who lived "lazy on welfare", George defends them, and throws Harris out instead! He also offers Roy, who was out of work at the time, a job in one of his cleaning stores.