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TaraDeS — 10 months ago(May 21, 2025 05:32 PM)
NothingButTheBest May 20, 2025 10:25 PM
Member since November 10, 2024
R.I.P. 'Norm'.
Since early this morning, our news are full of George Wendt too.
The series
CHEERS
and especially
"Norm!"
were also very beloved here.
Actor George Wendt has died
US actor George Wendt, who rose to fame through his role in the cult series
CHEERS
has died.
According to his family, he died
"peacefully at home in his sleep"
at the age of 76.
George Robert Wendt Jr.
(October 17, 1948 – May 20, 2025)
In the popular sitcom about a fictional Boston bar, which ran from 1982 to 1993, he played regular customer
Norm Peterson
, who always sat at the bar with a beer. Wendt was nominated for six Emmy Awards for his role. He also appeared as
Norm
in several other series, including
"The Simpsons"
and "Frazier". In addition to dozens of TV and movie productions, Wendt also performed on Broadway.
George Wendt grew up in Chicago with six sisters and two brothers.
He is the uncle of comedian and actor Jason Sudeikis (
"Ted Lasso," "Kill the Boss"
).
In 1974, Wendt met actress Bernadette Birkett at the
Second City Theater
in Chicago.
They married in 1978 and Birkett voiced his on-screen wife
Vera
in
CHEERS
.
George Wendt is survived by his wife and their three children.
https://www.deutschlandfunk.de/schauspieler-george-wendt-ist-tot-100.html
May 21, 2025
https://www.berliner-zeitung.de/news/george-wendt-gestorben-biertrinker-norm-aus-cheers-stirbt-mit-76-li.2326728
May 21, 2025
Eine gute und friedliche Reise über den Regenbogen für Sie, Herr Wendt.
Vielen Dank für die vielen fröhlichen Stunden, wir werden Sie nicht vergessen.
Ruhen Sie sanft.
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sheetsadam1 — 1 month ago(February 02, 2026 11:19 PM)
https://apnews.com/article/woodie-king-jr-dies-e772bbc62b139f815f30bc968a817d7b
Woodie King Jr., an actor, director and producer who founded the New Federal Theatre to give voice and employment to Black playwrights, actors, directors, designers and young people entering the American theater, has died. He was 88.
His off-Broadway theater company said King died Thursday at Weill Cornell Medical Center in New York City of complications from emergency heart surgery.
King was inducted into the American Theatre Hall of Fame in 2012 and received the Tony Honors for Excellence in Theatre in 2020.
“We have lost a giant,” said Emmy Award-winning actor and educator Erin Cherry on Instagram. “I am here because of Woodie King Jr. My very first introduction to the Black theater scene was the play ‘Knock Me a Kiss’ produced by New Federal Theatre. It changed my life. I’m forever grateful.”
The New Federal Theatre produced such key works as “Black Girl” by J.E. Franklin, “The Taking of Miss Janie” by Ed Bullins — which jumped to Lincoln Center and won the Drama Critics Circle Award — and “For Colored Girls Who Considered Suicide When the Rainbow is Enuf” by Ntozake Shange, which landed on Broadway in 1976 and was nominated for the best new play Tony Award.
The New Federal Theatre was a springboard for many playwrights, including Charles Fuller — later to win the Pulitzer Prize for “A Soldier’s Play” — who premiered two plays — “In My Many Names and Days” and “The Candidate.” David Henry Hwang premiered “The Dance and the Railroad” at the New Federal and would later win the Tony for “M. Butterfly.”
Some performers who got early career boosts thanks to the company include Chadwick Boseman, Debbie Allen, Morgan Freeman, Phylicia Rashad, Denzel Washington, LaTanya Richardson Jackson, Samuel L. Jackson and Issa Rae.
King was born in Alabama, raised in Detroit and earned his bachelor’s degree from Lehman College and later his master’s from Brooklyn College. He served as the cultural director of Mobilization for Youth for five years, before founding New Federal Theatre in 1970.
King is survived by his wife, Elizabeth Van Dyke, and his three children, Geoffrey King, Michael King and Michelle King Huger, whom he shared with ex-wife Willie Mae Washington, as well as five grandchildren.
Tyler Fauntleroy, an actor who has toured in “Hamilton,” took to Instagram to recall working at the New Federal in 2019 on a show called “Looking for Leroy” that would change his career. “His belief in me came at a time when my own was at an all time low. What a champion he was for Black artists. It was an honor to witness. Thank you, sir and rest easy.”
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AnthonySocksss — 7 months ago(August 26, 2025 07:27 AM)
Another dead sopranos cast member
Melton1 Wanted for Pedophilia:
https://i.ibb.co/6cnPmJVr/IMG-0830.jpg
https://m.youtube.com/shorts/Zjxk307CND0
