| LC control no. | n 88068076 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Rolle, Esther |
| Other standard no. | Q465676 0000000114661676 2682430 |
| Associated country | United States |
| Birth date | 1920-11-08 |
| Death date | 1998-11-17 |
| Place of birth | Pompano Beach (Fla.) |
| Place of death | Culver City (Calif.) |
| Field of activity | Acting |
| Affiliation | Maude (Television program) Good times (Television program) |
| Profession or occupation | Actresses |
| Found in | Ethnic notions [VR] 1986: credits (narrated by Esther Rolle) Washington Post, November 19, 1998: obituary (Esther Rolle, television and film actress, died November 17, 1998, Los Angeles, Calif.; aged 78; born Pompano Beach, Fla.; November 8, 1920; some reference sources incorrectly list 1922 as birth year; first woman to win the NAACP Chairman's Civil Rights Leadership Award in 1990 for her work in raising the image of Black people in the entertainment media) Wikipedia website, viewed October 3, 2024: Esther Rolle page (Esther Elizabeth Rolle born November 8, 1920 in Pompano Beach, Florida; died November 17, 1998 in Culver City, California; she was an American actress; she is best known for her role as Florida Evans, on the CBS television sitcom Maude, for two seasons 1972-1974, and its spin-off series Good Times 1974-1979, for which she was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for Best Actress, Television Series Musical or Comedy in 1976; in 1979, Rolle won the Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Limited Series or Special for the television film Summer of My German Soldier) <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Esther_Rolle> |
| Associated language | eng |
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