Esther Rolle, the actress best known for her roles as Florida Evans — first on the television sitcom “Maude” and later the spin-off “Good Times” during the 1970s — would have ...

Esther Rolle, 78, who played the maid in the hit 1970s sitcom “Maude” and the strong-willed mother who kept her ghetto family together in the spinoff series “Good Times,” died Tuesday at a ...