{"id":31318,"date":"2026-07-20T10:42:49","date_gmt":"2026-07-20T10:42:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/?p=31318"},"modified":"2026-07-20T10:42:49","modified_gmt":"2026-07-20T10:42:49","slug":"sanford-and-son-star-hal-williams-dies-at-91","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/?p=31318","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Sanford and Son&#8217; Star Hal Williams Dies at 91"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cSanford and Son\u201d and \u201c227\u201d actor <strong data-start=\"49\" data-end=\"65\">Hal Williams<\/strong> has died at the age of 91. He passed away Wednesday at his home in Rancho Mirage, California, of natural causes. Williams enjoyed a career spanning nearly six decades, earning fame as Officer \u201cSmitty\u201d Smith on <em data-start=\"276\" data-end=\"293\">Sanford and Son<\/em> and Lester Jenkins on <em data-start=\"316\" data-end=\"321\">227<\/em>. He is survived by two children, three grandchildren, and three great-grandchildren.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cSanford and Son\u201d and \u201c227\u201d actor Hal Williams has died at the age of 91. He passed away Wednesday at his home in Rancho Mirage, California, of natural causes. Williams enjoyed a career spanning nearly six decades, earning fame as Officer \u201cSmitty\u201d Smith on Sanford and Son and Lester Jenkins on 227. He is survived&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-wrap\"><a href=\"https:\/\/albotips.com\/?p=31318\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;&#8216;Sanford and Son&#8217; Star Hal Williams Dies at 91&rdquo;<\/span> &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":31319,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31318","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31318","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31318"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31318\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31320,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31318\/revisions\/31320"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/31319"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}