Maidie Norman
Birthday
1912/10/16
Day of death
1998/05/02 (85 years old)
Gender
Female
Place of Birth
Also know as
Mady Norman, Madie Norman
Biography
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 a...Read more
Acting
(1962) What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?
as Elvira Stitt
(1982) Halloween III: Season of the Witch
as Nurse Agnes
(1951) The Well
as Martha Crawford
(1954) Executive Suite
as Housekeeper
(1956) Written on the Wind
as Bertha
(1954) Susan Slept Here
as Georgette
(1955) Tarzan's Hidden Jungle
as Suma
(1953) Bright Road
as Mrs. Hamilton - Tanya's Mother
(1954) About Mrs. Leslie
as Camilla
(1953) Forever Female
as Emma
(1973) The Lie
as Janine
(1977) Airport '77
as Dorothy
(1976) A Star Is Born
as Justice of the Peace (uncredited)
(1949) Manhandled
as Christine, Bennet's Maid (uncredited)
(1972) Sixteen
as Aunt Ada
(1972) Another Part of the Forest
as Coralee
(1973) Maurie
as Mrs. Stokes
(1956) The Opposite Sex
as Violet (uncredited)
(1947) The Peanut Man
as Lucretia
(1953) Torch Song
as Anne
(1972) Say Goodbye, Maggie Cole
as Nurse Ferguson
(1981) Thornwell
as Ruth Thornwell
(1983) Secrets of a Mother and Daughter
as Neddy
(1963) 4 for Texas
as Burden's Maid
(1973) A Dream for Christmas
as Jennie Daley
(1955) Mad at the World
as Miss Lovett
(1974) Sty of the Blind Pig
as Weedy Warren
(1978) Movie Movie
as Gussie ("Baxter's Beauties of 1933")
(1955) Man with the Gun
as Sarah (uncredited)
(1981) Be Pretty and Shut Up!
as Self
(2020) Delphine and Carole
as Self (archive footage)
(1974) Good Times
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(1974) Rhoda
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(1972) Kung Fu
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(1974) Little House on the Prairie
as ---
(1965) The F.B.I.
as Caregiver
(1981) Simon & Simon
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(1975) The Jeffersons
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(1972) The Streets of San Francisco
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(1975) Baretta
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(1967) Mannix
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(1982) Hotel
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(1951) Dragnet
as ---
(1982) Cagney & Lacey
as ---
(1971) Cannon
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(1951) Hallmark Hall of Fame
as Lurie
(1967) Ironside
as ---
(1974) Kolchak: The Night Stalker
as Librarian
(1955) Alfred Hitchcock Presents
as Eloise
(1959) The Twilight Zone
as Maid (uncredited)
(1974) Harry O
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(1971) Funny Face
as ---
(1974) Police Woman
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(1950) Lux Video Theatre
as Flora
(1982) Matt Houston
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(1967) Judd for the Defense
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(1955) Matinee Theater
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(1961) Ben Casey
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(1966) CBS Playhouse
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(1952) Cavalcade of America
as Aunt Nellie
(1961) Dr. Kildare
as Mrs. Johnson
(1953) Letter to Loretta
as Flora
(1968) Adam-12
as Ethel May
(1953) Letter to Loretta
as Josi
(1968) Adam-12
as Mary Handlin
(1950) Lux Video Theatre
as Maid
(1952) Four Star Playhouse
as Coralee
(1964) The Man from U.N.C.L.E.
as Mama Lou
(1979) Roots: The Next Generations
as Sister Scrap Scott
(1977) The Incredible Hulk
as Mrs. Dennison