Mabel King

Actress

Date of birth : 12/25/1932

Date of death : 11/09/1999

City of birth : Charleston, South Carolina, USA

Mabel King is best-known for the role of Mama on the 1970's sitcom What's Happening!, but she also appeared in the films The Jerk with Steve Martin and The Wiz with Michael Jackson. Before What's Happening!, she portrayed the Wicked Witch of the West in the Broadway version of The Wiz.