George Wendt Biography

Fast Facts

• Grandfather Tom Howard, a news photographer, snapped the infamous 1928 picture of murderer Ruth Snyder at the moment of her execution in the electric chair at Sing Sing Prison
• It appeared on the New York Daily News' front page
• Met his wife while both were members of Chicago's Second City comedy troupe
• Made his film debut in 1980's My Bodyguard
• Also played his beer-swilling Cheers character, Norm, on St
• Elsewhere, The Tortellis, The Simpsons, Wings, Frasier, and Family Guy
• Is one of three original cast members to have appeared in all 273 episodes of Cheers; Ted Danson and Rhea Perlman are the other two
• Played Macaulay Culkin's father in Michael Jackson's "Black or White" video
• Also appeared in videos for Ray Parker Jr
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