Maidie Norman
- Interpretación
- 16 de octubre de 1912 · Villa Rica, Georgia, USA
- 2 de mayo de 1998
Biografía
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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Filmografía
- Delphine y Carole · En persona
- Terrorist on Trial: The United States vs. Salim Ajami · Edna
- Secrets of a Mother and Daughter · Neddy
- Halloween III: El día de la bruja · Nurse Agnes
- Matt Houston
- Hotel · Carrie Garland
- Cagney & Lacey · Elevator Operator
- Simon & Simon
- Sois belle et tais-toi ! · En persona
- Thornwell · Ruth Thornwell
- Raíces: La nueva generación · Sister Scrap Scott
- Movie Movie · Gussie ("Baxter's Beauties of 1933")
- El increíble Hulk · Mrs. Dennison
- Aeropuerto 77 · Dorothy
- Ha nacido una estrella · Justice of the Peace (uncredited)
- Los Jeffersons
- Baretta
- Kolchak: The Night Stalker · Librarian
- La mujer policia
- Harry O
- La casa de la pradera · 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
- Las calles de San Francisco
- Sixteen · Aunt Ada
- Funny Face
- Cannon
- Área 12 · Ethel May, Mary Handlin
- Mannix
- Judd, for the Defense
- Ironside
- CBS Playhouse · Mrs. Pierce
- The F.B.I. · Caregiver
- El agente de CIPOL · Mama Lou
- Cuatro tíos de Texas · Burden's Maid
- ¿Qué fue de Baby Jane? · Elvira Stitt
- Ben Casey
- Dr. Kildare · Mrs. Johnson
- No Greater Love · Queto's Mother
- La dimensión desconocida · Maid (uncredited)
- El sexo opuesto · Violet (uncredited)
- Escrito sobre el viento · Bertha
- Matinee Theater
- Con sus mismas armas · Sarah (uncredited)
- Alfred Hitchcock presenta · Eloise
- Mad at the World · Miss Lovett
- Tarzán en la selva escondida · Suma
- El amor de la señora Leslie · Camilla
- Las tres noches de Susana · Georgette
- La torre de los ambiciosos · Housekeeper (uncredited)
- Por siempre mujer · Emma (uncredited)
- La canción de la antorcha · Anne
- Letter to Loretta · Flora, Josi
- Bright Road · Mrs. Hamilton - Tanya's Mother
- Cavalcade of America · Aunt Nellie
- Four Star Playhouse · Coralee
- Hallmark Hall of Fame · Lurie
- Dragnet
- The Well · Martha Crawford
- Lux Video Theatre · Flora, Maid
- La maltratada · Christine, Bennet's Maid (uncredited)
- The Peanut Man · Lucretia