12 Classic TV Stars Who Fooled Every Fan

They fooled an entire generation. The bigot was a liberal. The ditz owned the studio. The sweetest grandmother on television was terrified every single week. 12 Sitcom Stars Nothing Like Their Characters — the widest gaps between the people America loved on screen and the people they actually were when the cameras stopped. Featuring Carroll O'Connor, Lucille Ball, Betty White, Bob Saget, Desi Arnaz, Henry Winkler, Danny DeVito, Mary Tyler Moore, Sherman Hemsley, Fred MacMurray, Tina Louise, and Estelle Getty. A new classic TV countdown every day on The Sitcom Files.