On any other sitcom, it may have been a throwaway role. A quick cameo. That crazy weekend that grandma and grandpa came to visit. But on The Cosby Show, where family came first and respect for your elders was permanently ingrained, Anna Huxtable was much more than a recurring character.
Sadly, actress Clarice Taylor, known to TV fans everywhere as Grandma Huxtable, has died of heart failure at the age of 93.
According to the Internet Movie Database, Taylor made 19 appearances over The Cosby Show’s eight seasons. But it’s the 1985 episode titled “Happy Anniversary,” that remains not only Taylor’s, but perhaps the entire series’ most beloved show. The episode, of course, is best remembered for the family’s lip synced rendition of Ray Charles’ “Night Time is the Right Time,” a moment not lost on the actors being serenaded.
“It went over to a kind of reality,” recalled Taylor’s TV husband Earle Hyman on Just My Show in 2009. “We were no longer Clarice and Earle. We were really Anna and Russell Huxtable. It was just wonderful.”
Goodbye to America’s grandmother. You’ll be missed, but your contribution to classic TV will live on.
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