Maidie Norman
- Schauspiel
- 16. Oktober 1912 · Villa Rica, Georgia, USA
- 2. Mai 1998
Biografie
Maidie Norman was born Maidie Ruth Gamble on October 16, 1912, in Villa Rica, Georgia, to Louis and Lila Gamble. She received a B.A. from Bennett College in 1934 and a master's degree from Columbia University three years later. She also attended the Actors Lab in Hollywood from 1946 to 1949. Norman first appeared on film in The Peanut Man in 1947. Throughout the fifties-not a good time for film roles for black women-she appeared in a number of films, such as Bright Road with Dorothy Dandridge and Sidney Poitier and Torch Song, both in 1953; About Mrs. Leslie and Susan Slept Here in 1954; and 1956's Written on the Wind. These were often servant roles, with a special fifties blandness. Still, Norman was skillful and professional in her execution of them. In 1962, she got a chance to chew up the scenery with Bette Davis and Joan Crawford in What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? In 1968-69, Norman was an artist-in-residence at Stanford University and, throughout the seventies, she was lecturer, director, and acting teacher at UCLA. At the same time, Norman was highly visible on television, appearing in Mannix, Adam 12, Streets of San Francisco, Kung Fu, The Jeffersons, and others. She was also part of the cast of Roots: The Next Generation in 1979. Norman was a founding member of the American Negro Theater West; in 1977, she was inducted into the Black Filmmakers Hall of Fame; and an award in her name is presented each year for outstanding research by an undergraduate in Black Theater at UCLA. She died on May 6, 1998.
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Filmografie
- Delphine et Carole, insoumuses · Selbst
- Terrorist on Trial: The United States vs. Salim Ajami · Edna
- Secrets of a Mother and Daughter · Neddy
- Halloween III - Die Nacht der Entscheidung · Nurse Agnes
- Matt Houston
- Hotel · Carrie Garland
- Cagney & Lacey · Elevator Operator
- Simon & Simon
- Sois belle et tais-toi ! · Selbst
- Thornwell · Ruth Thornwell
- Roots - Die nächsten Generationen · Sister Scrap Scott
- Movie Movie · Gussie ("Baxter's Beauties of 1933")
- Der unglaubliche Hulk · Mrs. Dennison
- Airport '77 - Verschollen im Bermuda-Dreieck · Dorothy
- A Star Is Born · Justice of the Peace (uncredited)
- Die Jeffersons
- Baretta
- Der Nachtjäger · Librarian
- Make-Up und Pistolen
- Harry O
- Unsere kleine Farm · Mrs. Henry
- Rhoda
- Sty of the Blind Pig · Weedy Warren
- Good Times
- A Dream for Christmas · Jennie Daley
- Maurie · Mrs. Stokes
- The Lie · Janine
- Kung Fu · Omar's Mother
- Another Part of the Forest · Coralee
- Say Goodbye, Maggie Cole · Nurse Ferguson
- Die Straßen von San Francisco
- Sixteen · Aunt Ada
- Viel Lärm um Sandy
- Cannon
- Adam-12 · Ethel May, Mary Handlin
- Mannix
- Der Strafverteidiger
- Der Chef
- CBS Playhouse · Mrs. Pierce
- F.B.I. · Caregiver
- Solo für O.N.C.E.L. · Mama Lou
- Vier für Texas · Burden's Maid
- Was geschah wirklich mit Baby Jane? · Elvira Stitt
- Ben Casey
- Dr. Kildare · Mrs. Johnson
- No Greater Love · Queto's Mother
- Twilight Zone - Unwahrscheinliche Geschichten · Maid (uncredited)
- Das schwache Geschlecht · Violet (uncredited)
- In den Wind geschrieben · Bertha
- Matinee Theater
- Der Einzelgänger · Sarah (uncredited)
- Alfred Hitchcock präsentiert · Eloise
- Mad at the World · Miss Lovett
- Tarzan und der schwarze Dämon · Suma
- About Mrs. Leslie · Camilla
- Eine Nacht mit Susanne · Georgette
- Die Intriganten · Housekeeper (uncredited)
- Die pikanten Jahre einer Frau · Emma (uncredited)
- Herzen im Fieber · Anne
- Ihr Star: Loretta Young · Flora, Josi
- Bright Road · Mrs. Hamilton - Tanya's Mother
- Cavalcade of America · Aunt Nellie
- Four Star Playhouse · Coralee
- Hallmark Hall of Fame · Lurie
- Polizeibericht
- The Well · Martha Crawford
- Lux Video Theatre · Flora, Maid
- Manhandled · Christine, Bennet's Maid (uncredited)
- The Peanut Man · Lucretia