Maidie Norman
- Recitazione
- 16 ottobre 1912 · Villa Rica, Georgia, USA
- 2 maggio 1998
Biografia
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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Filmografia
- Delphine et Carole, insoumuses · In persona
- Terrorist on Trial: The United States vs. Salim Ajami · Edna
- Secrets of a Mother and Daughter · Neddy
- Halloween III - Il signore della notte · Nurse Agnes
- Matt Houston
- Hotel · Carrie Garland
- New York New York · Elevator Operator
- Simon & Simon
- Be Pretty and Shut Up! · In persona
- Thornwell · Ruth Thornwell
- Radici - Le nuove generazioni · Sister Scrap Scott
- Il boxeur e la ballerina · Gussie ("Baxter's Beauties of 1933")
- L'incredibile Hulk · Mrs. Dennison
- Airport '77 · Dorothy
- È nata una stella · Justice of the Peace (uncredited)
- I Jefferson
- Baretta
- Kolchak: The Night Stalker · Librarian
- Pepper Anderson agente speciale
- Harry O
- La casa nella prateria · 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
- Arrivederci Maggie Cole · Nurse Ferguson
- Le strade di San Francisco
- Sixteen · Aunt Ada
- Funny Face
- Cannon
- Adam-12 · Ethel May, Mary Handlin
- Mannix
- Al banco della difesa
- Ironside
- CBS Playhouse · Mrs. Pierce
- F.B.I. · Caregiver
- Organizzazione U.N.C.L.E. · Mama Lou
- I 4 del Texas · Burden's Maid
- Che fine ha fatto Baby Jane? · Elvira Stitt
- Ben Casey
- Dottor Kildare · Mrs. Johnson
- No Greater Love · Queto's Mother
- Ai confini della realtà · Maid (uncredited)
- Sesso debole? · Violet (uncredited)
- Come le Foglie al Vento · Bertha
- Matinee Theater
- Sangue caldo · Sarah (uncredited)
- Alfred Hitchcock presenta · Eloise
- Mad at the World · Miss Lovett
- Tarzan nella jungla proibita · Suma
- Addio signora Leslie · Camilla
- Susanna ha dormito qui · Georgette
- La sete del potere · Housekeeper (uncredited)
- Eternamente femmina · Emma (uncredited)
- Torch Song · 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
- La bambina nel pozzo · Martha Crawford
- Lux Video Theatre · Flora, Maid
- La traccia del serpente · Christine, Bennet's Maid (uncredited)
- The Peanut Man · Lucretia