* 1920 – Esther Rolle, American actress ( d. 1998 )

* 1998 – Esther Rolle, American actress ( b. 1920 )

** Esther Rolle, American actress ( b. 1920 )

Mrs. (" Miss ") Daisy Werthan ( Jessica Tandy ), a 72-year-old wealthy Jewish widow, lives in Atlanta, Georgia, alone except for an African American housemaid named Idella ( Esther Rolle ).

* Esther Rolle as Idella

John Amos and Esther Rolle, 1974

The series stars Esther Rolle as Florida Evans and John Amos as her husband, James Evans, Sr.

For season six, Esther Rolle agreed to return to the show.

Esther Rolle ( November 8, 1920 November 17, 1998 ) was an American actress.

Esther Rolle was born in Pompano Beach, Florida, to Bahamian immigrants Jonathan Rolle ( a farmer ) and Elizabeth Rolle.

Esther Rolle appears early in her career in the 1964 feature film, Nothing But a Man.

For example, when Good Times premiered in 1974 she was 28 while the show made her out to be much closer in age to Esther Rolle, who was 53 at the time.

; Esther Rolle as Julia ( Season 2 only ).

Dan Aykroyd, Lauren Bacall, Esther Rolle, John Heard, Wilford Brimley, Bradley Whitford and Jeff Yagher also appear in supporting performances.

* Esther Rolle ...... Rita, the White House Chef

* TCM Remembers 1998: composer John Addison, Gene Autry, Binnie Barnes, Lloyd Bridges, Dane Clark, art director George Davis, John Derek, special effects visual Linwood G. Dunn, Alice Faye, Norman Fell, editor Gene Fowler, Jr., Douglas Fowley, Patricia Hayes, Valerie Hobson, Josephine Hutchinson, director Alan J. Pakula, Leonid Kinskey, director Akira Kurosawa, cinematographer Charles Lang, Phil Leeds, Jean Marais, E. G. Marshall, Roddy McDowall, Jeanette Nolan, Lucille Norman, Maidie Norman, Dick O ' Neill, Maureen O ' Sullivan, composer Gene Page, choreographer Jerome Robbins, Gene Raymond, Roy Rogers, Esther Rolle, Frank Sinatra, J. T. Walsh, Vincent Winter, O.

Also appearing were actors Esther Rolle, Roger E. Mosley, Diahann Carroll, Ruby Dee, and Madge Sinclair.

Some of the contemporary television sitcoms which featured mammies include Maude, where Esther Rolle, who played the character Florida, worked as a domestic for a white family.

* Esther Rolle – Good Times as Florida Evans

Moore's grandson is actor / producer Kirk Kelley-Kahn, who is CEO / President of " Cambridge Players-Next Generation ", a theatre troupe whose founding members included Moore, Esther Rolle, Helen Martin, Lynn Hamilton and Royce Wallace.

The film uses a narrative voice-over provided by African-American actress Esther Rolle in explaining striking film footage and historical stills which expose the blatant racism of the era immediately following the Civil War.

* Esther Rolle

* 1814 – Esther Morris, American jurist ( d. 1902 )

* 1921 – Esther Williams, American actress and swimmer

* 1952 – Esther Roth-Shahamorov, Israeli track and field athlete

* 1970 – Esther Schweins, German actress and comedienne

In Esther 2: 5 – 6, either Mordecai or his great-grandfather Kish is identified as having been exiled from Jerusalem to Babylon by King Nebuchadnezzar in 597 BCE: " Mordecai son of Jair, the son of Shimei, the son of Kish, who had been carried into exile from Jerusalem by Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, among those taken captive with Jeconiah king of Judah.

Those arguing in favour of an historical reading of Esther, most commonly identify Ahasuerus with Artaxerxes II ( ruled 405 – 359 BCE ) although in the past it was often assumed that he was Xerxes I ( ruled 486 – 465 BCE ).

Based on the view that the Ahasuerus of the Book of Tobit is identical with that of the Book of Esther, some have also identified him as Nebuchadnezzar's ally Cyaxares ( ruled 625 – 585 BCE ).

Depending on the interpretation of Esther 2: 5 – 6, Mordecai or his great-grandfather Kish was carried away from Jerusalem with Jeconiah by Nebuchadnezzar, in 597 BCE.

* Sasson, Jack M. “ Esther ” in Alter and Kermode, pp. 335 – 341, literary view

* Sasson, Jack M. " Esther " in Alter and Kermode, pp. 335 – 341, literary

* 1941 – Esther Ofarim, Israeli singer

* 1979 – Esther Anderson, Australian actress and model

* 1970 – Esther Hart, Dutch singer-songwriter

* 1940 – Esther Rantzen, English journalist

He co-starred with Esther Williams in Billy Rose's Aquacade during the NEW YORK World's Fair, 1939 – 41, pursuing her throughout a span of two years.

* 1977 – Esther Cañadas, Spanish actress and model

* 1961 – The United States National Hurricane Research Project drops eight cylinders of silver iodide into the eyewall of Hurricane Esther.

* 1935 – Esther Vilar, German-Argentinian author

* April 2 – Esther Hobart Morris, American suffragist judge ( b. 1814 )

* June 28 – Esther Forbes, American Writer ( d. 1967 )

* August 8 – Esther Morris, American suffragist and judge ( d. 1902 )

Ingres ' pupil Théodore Chassériau ( 1819 – 1856 ) had already achieved success with his nude The Toilette of Esther ( 1841, Louvre ) and equestrian portrait of Ali-Ben-Hamet, Caliph of Constantine and Chief of the Haractas, Followed by his Escort ( 1846 ) before he first visited the East, but in later decades the steamship made travel much easier and increasing numbers of artists traveled to the Middle East and beyond, painting a wide range of Oriental scenes.