Updated 05-May-2020.
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My botty best at summarizing from Wikipedia: George Robert Wendt III (born October 17, 1948) is an American actor and comedian . he is best known for playing Norm Peterson on the television sitcom Cheers . his maternal grandfather was photographer Tom Howard . Wendt is an uncle of actor and former SNL writer and cast member Jason Sudeikis . he was expelled from the university of Notre Dame after he received a 0.00 GPA . wend wendt appeared in the 1980 film My Bodyguard . he played a handyman working behind the check-in counter at the Ambassador East Hotel . in 1981 he appeared on an episode of the TV series Taxi as wendt earned six primetime emmy award nominations for his work on Cheers . he first appeared on a season 11 episode with director Francis Ford Coppola . in the early 1990s, wend wendt’s character is said to be a “spot-on” characterization of Chicago’s south-side citizens . he has roles opposite Robert De Niro in Guilty by Suspicion wendt appeared as himself on seinfeld and has reprised the character Norm Peterson . he appeared in the film Man of the House as the stepfather of Norman (zachary browne) in 1994, Wendt was one of three characters in a production of ‘Art’ with David Dukes and Stacy Keach . in 2003, he appeared as a celebrity fisherman in the music video for “Ri in 2006, wendt made several appearances on Late Night with Conan O’Brien . he starred in a 2006 episode of Masters of Horror entitled “Family” Wendt performed alongside Richard Thomas in George starred in the Broadway musical Hairspray as the character of Edna Turnblad until November 2008 . he appeared with his former Cheers co-star John Ratzenberger as a talent scout Wendt briefly appeared as Santa Claus in A Colbert Christmas: The Greatest Gift of All! . he also appeared in the 2008 horror film Bryan Loves You directed by Seth Landau . on October 1, 2009, Wendt played Santa in Elf the Musical on Broadway . he starred in a production of Hairspray as Edna Turnblad . wendt guest-starred in the tv series hot wendt is among the thespians who participated in a poster campaign touting live theatre in Chicago . other celebrities included John Mahoney, John Malkovich, Terry Kinney and Martha Plimpton . we Wendt starred in Never Too Late, a comedy with his wife, actress Bernadette Birkett . in 2015, wendt appeared opposite his former Second City co-star Tim Kazurinsky in funnyman They have three children: Hilary (b. 1985), Joe (b . 1987), and Daniel (c. 1990). They have two children: Daniel (b (c) 1990; Hilary (1985).