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George Wendt

Age: 61
Height: 5' 8"

Birth Place: Chicago, Illinois, USA
Born: Oct. 17th, 1948

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George Wendt's Main TV Roles

Show	Character(s)
Cheers	Norm Peterson
Making the Grade	Gus Bertoia
Modern Men	Tug
Good Company	George Wendt
The Building	Cappucino Guy
The George Wendt Show	George Coleman
The Martin Short Show (1994)	George Wendt
The Tortellis	Norm Peterson

NOTE: Complete List of Works can be found at IMDB

BIOGRAPHY:

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, who provided the rare offscreen voice of Norm's unseen wife Vera. The couple have two sons and a daughter. They met while working at the Second City in Chicago.

TRIVIA:

In a tribute George wrote for the Second City book, he said that when he joined Second City, it wasn't directly through the troupe as a performer. He had studied the shows for a while and befriended an employee whom he asked about joining. She told him to show up after a performance one day in the afternoon, which he subsequently did. The stage area was littered with cigarette butts, when the woman handed him a broom and said "Welcome to the theater, kid."
Graduate of Rockhurst College (now known as Rockhurst University) in Kansas City, MO.
Is an avid Notre Dame football fan. Always attends the notorious Notre Dame vs. USC game when held in Pasadena, California, every two years.
Played 'Macaulay Culkin' (qv)'s father in 'Michael Jackson (I)' (qv)'s video 'Black or White'.
Attended University of Notre Dame in South Bend, Indiana for 2 years.
Along with 'Ted Danson' (qv) and 'Rhea Perlman' (qv), he is one of only three actors to appear in all 273 episodes of _"Cheers" (1982)_ (qv).
Uncle of 'Jason Sudeikis' (qv).
Wendt's maternal grandfather was Tom Howard, a photographer for the Washington bureau of P & A Photographs, who took one of the most famous news photos ever: of murderess Ruth Snyder as she was executed at Sing Sing Prison on January 12, 1928. He modified his miniature plate camera with a long shutter release, then smuggled it into the witness room by strapping it onto his left ankle. The photo was on the front page of the next morning's New York Daily News under the headline: DEAD! The camera is at the Smithsonian Institution.