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George Wendt
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George Wendt was an American actor best known for playing the lovable bartender Norm Peterson on the hit television series "Cheers," which aired from 1982 to 1993. He became a recognizable face in American pop culture through this role and appeared in numerous other TV shows and films throughout his long career.
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Person · Open Library
- Works
- 1
Top works
- Drinking with George
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Film & TV
Acting · Chicago, Illinois, USA
George Robert Wendt Jr. (October 17, 1948 – May 20, 2025) was an American actor, best known for the role of Norm Peterson on the television show Cheers.
Known for
- SNL50: Beyond Saturday Night — Self2025
- Love's Second Act2024
- A History of the World in Six Glasses — Self2024
- What the Elf?!2023
- Christmas with the Campbells — Robert2022
- Aliens, Clowns & Geeks — Father Mahoney2021
- The Independents — Eduardo2021
- The Climb — Jim2020
- For Madmen Only: The Stories of Del Close — Self2020
- Stealing a Survivor — Mr. Martin2020
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Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- United States
- Active from
- 1948
- Active to
- 2025
Member of
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 1,969
- Total plays
- 7,566
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- A short history of<i>SHELX</i>
· 2007 · cited 79,955x
- Bias in meta-analysis detected by a simple, graphical test
· 1997 · cited 48,650x
- Crystal structure refinement with<i>SHELXL</i>
· 2015 · cited 40,940x
- <i>SHELXT</i>– Integrated space-group and crystal-structure determination
· 2015 · cited 27,696x
- A new and rapid colorimetric determination of acetylcholinesterase activity
· 1961 · cited 23,207x
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Encyclopedic overview
George Robert Wendt Jr. (October 17, 1948 – May 20, 2025) was an American actor . Wendt played Norm Peterson on the NBC sitcom Cheers from 1982 to 1993, which earned him six consecutive nominations for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series. After Cheers ended, he starred in his own short-lived CBS sitcom, The George Wendt Show (1995).
Wendt also appeared in the comedy films Airplane II: The Sequel (1982), No Small Affair (1984), Fletch (1985), The Little Rascals (1994), Man of the House (1995), Spice World (1997), Outside Providence (1999), and Sandy Wexler (2017), and the dramas Somewhere in Time (1980), Dreamscape (1984), Guilty by Suspicion (1991), Forever Young (1992), Lakeboat (2000), and The Climb (2019).
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