Rosalind Cash

Biography Early life and education Cash was the second of four children born in Atlantic City, New Jersey, to John O. Cash Sr., a clerk, and Martha Elizabeth Cash. Her siblings were John Jr., Robert, and Helen. Cash graduated with honors from Atlantic City High School in 1956. After high school, Cash attended City College of New York. Her career extended to theater, television, film, and recording.

Career Cash appeared in the 1962 revival of Fiorello! and was an original member of the Negro Ensemble Company, founded in 1968. In 1973, Cash played the role of Goneril in King Lear at the New York Shakespeare Festival alongside James Earl Jones's Lear. Cash appeared on the New York-area television show Callback!, which featured musical director Barry Manilow. The episode on which Cash was featured was filmed on March 31, 1969, at the Village Gate in New York City. The episode aired on Saturday, April 19, 1969 at 3:30 pm on CBS. Cash performed "God Bless the Child" on the show. No recordings of the performance are known to exist. Her other television credits include The Cosby Show, What's Happening!!, A Different World, Good Times, The Mary Tyler Moore Show, Frank's Place, Kojak, Barney Miller, Benson, Roc, Police Woman, Family Ties, Head of the Class, The Golden Girls, and L.A. Law.

Cash was nominated for an Emmy Award for her work on the Public Broadcasting Service production of Go Tell It on the Mountain. In 1996, she was posthumously nominated for an Emmy Award, Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series, for her role on General Hospital. Cash's films included Omega Man (1971), Klute (1971), The New Centurions (1972) with George C. Scott and Stacy Keach, Uptown Saturday Night (1974) with Bill Cosby and Sidney Poitier, and Wrong Is Right (1982). In 1995, she appeared in Tales from the Hood, her last film appearance.

Cash supplied the voices of Sesame Street Muppet Roosevelt Franklin's mother and his sister, Mary Frances, on the 1970 record album The Year of Roosevelt Franklin, Gordon's Friend from Sesame Street alongside Matt Robinson's voices for Roosevelt and his brother, Baby Ray, and friend, A.B. Cito.

Personal life and death Cash never married nor had children. She died of cancer on October 31, 1995, at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, California, aged 56.

Filmography Year Title Role Notes 1961 The Hustler Waitress Uncredited 1971 Klute Pat 1971 The Omega Man Lisa 1972 The New Centurions (also known as Precinct 45: Los Angeles Police) Lorrie 1972 Melinda Terry Davis 1972 Hickey & Boggs Nyona 1973 The All-American Boy Poppy 1974 King Lear (TV series) Goneril 1974 Uptown Saturday Night Sarah Jackson 1974 Amazing Grace Creola Waters 1975 Ceremonies in Dark Old Men Adele TV movie 1975 Cornbread, Earl and Me (also known as Hit the Open Man) Sarah Robinson 1976 Dr. Black, Mr. Hyde (also released as Dr. Black and Mr. White; The Watts Monster) Dr. Billie Worth 1976 The Monkey Hu$tle Mama 1974 The Mary Tyler Moore Show (episode "A Girl Like Mary") Enid Berringer TV 1976 Good Times Jessica Bishop TV series 1976–1977 What's Happening!! Loretta TV series 1977 Starsky & Hutch (Episode: "The Crying Child") Sgt. Sheila Peterson TV 1977 A Killing Affair (also known as Behind the Badge) Beverly York TV movie 1978 The Class of Miss MacMichael Una Ferrar 1978 Death Drug Doctor 1978 Barney Miller (episode "Dog Days") Carol Slade TV 1979 Flashpoint – TV movie 1980 Guyana Tragedy: The Story of Jim Jones (also known as The Mad Messiah) Jenny Hammond TV movie 1981 Benson (Episode: "Rainbow's End") Elizabeth TV 1981 The Sophisticated Gents Christine Jackson TV series 1981 Keeping On TV movie 1982 Wrong Is Right (also known as The Man with the Deadly Lens) Mrs. Ford 1982 Sister, Sister Freida Lovejoy-Burton TV movie 1983 Special Bulletin Frieda Barton TV movie 1983 This Is the Life Herself TV series 1983 Just an Overnight Guest TV short 1984 The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension John Emdall 1985 Go Tell It on the Mountain Florence TV movie 1986 Knight Rider (episode "Voo Doo Knight") Harana TV 1986 The Cosby Show (Episode: "Denise Gets a D") Dr. Hughes TV 1987 Mighty Pawns Mrs. Robinson TV movie 1987 From a Whisper to a Scream Snake Woman 1987 Highway to Heaven (episode "A Song of Songs") Ellie Livingston TV 1988 The Golden Girls (episode "Mixed Blessings") Lorraine TV 1988 Death Spa (also known as Witch Bitch) Sgt. Stone 1989 Forced March 1989 Family Ties (two-part episode "All in the Neighborhood") Maya Thompson TV 1989 A Different World (episodes "To Have and Have Not" and "Under One Roof") Dean Hughes TV 1992 You Must Remember This (also known as Wonderworks: You Must Remember This) Janet Mickens TV movie 1992 The Second Coming Short 1993 The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air Mrs. Bassin TV series 1994–1995 General Hospital Mary Mae Ward TV series 1995 A Dangerous Affair Dr. Robertson TV movie 1995 Tales from the Hood Dr. Cushing 1996 Circle of Pain Final film role; TV movie, released posthumously