Maidie Norman
Actor/Actriz
31
Películas
33
Series
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.
Como Actor/Actriz
La familia Ingalls
Mrs. Henry
Mannix
Dragnet
Ironside
La Dimensión Desconocida
Maid (uncredited)
Adam-12
Ethel May
Hotel
Cannon
Dr. Kildare
Mrs. Johnson
Ben Casey
El F.B.I. en Acción
Caregiver
Mujer Policía
El increíble Hulk
Mrs. Dennison
Simon & Simon
Baretta
Cagney & Lacey
Elevator Operator
Los Jeffersons
Rhoda
Matinee Theater
The Man from U.N.C.L.E.
Mama Lou
Las calles de San Francisco
Matt Houston
Good Times
Alfred Hitchcock Presenta
Eloise
Judd, for the Defense
Harry O
Kolchak: el acechador nocturno
Librarian
Cavalcade of America
Aunt Nellie
Raíces: La nueva generación
Sister Scrap Scott
Halloween III: El imperio de las brujas
Nurse Agnes