NEW YORK (AP) — George Wendt, an actor with an Everyman charm who played the affable, beer-loving barfly Norm on the hit 1980s TV comedy “Cheers” and later crafted a stage career that took him to ...

The hit sitcom Cheers helped launch the careers of several actors who stayed in the spotlight years after the series ended on May 20, 1993. The show lost a cast member on May 20, when Wendt died at ...

George Wendt, an actor with an Everyman charm who played the affable, beer-loving barfly Norm on the hit 1980s TV comedy “Cheers” and later crafted a stage career that took him to Broadway in “Art,” ...

Sadly, the world recently lost George Wendt, 76, who famously played Norm on Cheers. He passed away on May 20, 2025, the anniversary of the show’s finale. In honor of one of the most recognizable ...

Actor George Wendt died on Tuesday, TMZ reports. He was 76. The late Cheers star’s family informed the outlet that he passed away in his sleep, though a cause of death was not specified. In a ...

NEW YORK (AP) — George Wendt, an actor with an Everyman charm who played the affable, beer-loving barfly Norm on the hit 1980s TV comedy “Cheers” and later crafted a stage career that took him to ...

Ted Danson played bartender Sam Malone on Cheers and became a fan-favorite character. In fact, most sitcom fans still love Sam to this day. That doesn't mean that filming the show didn't have its off ...

Prior to about 1987, American sitcoms were — generally speaking — very different. No matter the premise or intended demographic, most sitcoms (and, again, this is a wide generality) focused on a ...