Most Recent Role: Self on Late Night with Conan O'Brien
Alias Name(s): George R. Wendt
Birthplace: Chicago, Illinois, USA
Birthday: 10-17-1948
Alias Name(s): George R. Wendt
Birthplace: Chicago, Illinois, USA
Birthday: 10-17-1948
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George Wendt was born and raised in Chicago, Illinois, USA. He attended a strict Jesuit prep school and then dropped out of Notre Dame University after a few uneventful years. He worked with the Windy City's famed Second City comedy troupe from 1974-1980. He is best known for playing Norm Peterson on the hit televison series, "Cheers" (1982).
He is married to actress Bernadette Birkett,...
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George Wendt, Howard Bach, Hot Chip
Monday 7 April 2008 on NBC
Tonight's guests are George Wendt, Olympic badminton player Howard Bach and musical guest, Hot Chip.
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George's favorite movies are The Godfather and The Godfather II. His favorite line from a movie is "Take the gun, leave the cannoli." He loves the book Grapes of Wrath and the TV show The Honeymooners.
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George Wendt played a character named Norm Peterson on 6 shows: Cheers (1982), St. Elsewhere (1982), The Tortellis (1987), The Simpsons (1989), Wings (1990), and Frasier (1993).
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George is an avid Notre Dame football fan.
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George is one of 3 original actors that played in all 269 episodes of Cheers.
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George is only one of 4 different actors who has played his character in six different shows.
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George Wendt: (about his favorite comedian George Carlin) He's so outrageous. He doens't hit on all the cylinders all the time for me, but he's just so courageous.
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George Wendt: My look hasn't changed in 30 years.
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George Wendt: Improvising is best left to those who really love it. Improvising itself is kind of fun, but the apprehension before the improv is not. I don't think that fast; I can't write that fast. Some people can look at a bunch of suggestions and can come up with a premise, but that was never my long suit.
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George Wendt: It's really an honor to help raise a memorial for the guys who fell in the line of duty.
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George Wendt: I not only get recognized - I get recognized from behind.
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Other Appearances
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Cheers
Hilary Norman "Norm" Peterson |
House of Dreams
Host |
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Making the Grade
Gus Bertoia |
Modern Men
Tug |
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The George Wendt Show
George Coleman |
The Naked Truth
Les Polonsky |
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Late Night With David Letterman
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Sabrina, the Teenage Witch
Mike Shebly |
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Saturday Night Live
Bob Swerski |
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Alice
Monty Falls for Alice Monty |
Becker
V-Day Frank |
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Birds of a Feather
It Happened In Hollywood Himself |
Bob
Da Game Himself |
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Columbo
Strange Bedfellows Graham McVeigh |
Day by Day
Fraternity Stan |
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Cheers
Airport V |
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Family Guy
Road to Rupert Norm (from Cheers) |
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The George Wendt Show was an unsuccessful spin-off show for actor George Wendt. It was about a man named George Coleman (Wendt). The comedy only lasted 7 episodes, which is nothing compared to... more The Naked Truth
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