- Known For
- Acting
- Born
- October 16, 1912
- Place of Birth
- Villa Rica, Georgia, USA
- Died
- May 2, 1998
Maidie Norman
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 and Sidney Poitier and Torch Song, both in 1953; About Mrs. Leslie and Susan Slept Here in 1954; and 1956's Written on the Wind. These were often servant roles, with a special fifties blandness. Still, Norman was skillful and professional in her execution of them. In 1962, she got a chance to chew up the scenery with Bette Davis and Joan Crawford in What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? In 1968-69, Nor…
Filmography
movieDelphine and Carole
2020 · Self (archive footage)
movieTerrorist on Trial: The United States vs. Salim Ajami
1988 · Edna
movieSecrets of a Mother and Daughter
1983 · Neddy
movieHalloween III: Season of the Witch
1982 · Nurse Agnes
tvMatt Houston
1982
tvHotel
1982 · Carrie Garland
tvCagney & Lacey
1982 · Elevator Operator
tvSimon & Simon
1981
movieBe Pretty and Shut Up!
1981 · Self
movieThornwell
1981 · Ruth Thornwell
tvRoots: The Next Generations
1979 · Sister Scrap Scott
movieMovie Movie
1978 · Gussie ("Baxter's Beauties of 1933")
tvThe Incredible Hulk
1977 · Mrs. Dennison
movieAirport '77
1977 · Dorothy
movieA Star Is Born
1976 · Justice of the Peace (uncredited)
tvThe Jeffersons
1975
tvBaretta
1975
tvKolchak: The Night Stalker
1974 · Librarian
tvPolice Woman
1974
tvHarry O
1974
tvLittle House on the Prairie
1974 · Mrs. Henry
tvRhoda
1974
movieSty of the Blind Pig
1974 · Weedy Warren
tvGood Times
1974
movieA Dream for Christmas
1973 · Jennie Daley
movieMaurie
1973 · Mrs. Stokes
movieThe Lie
1973 · Janine
tvKung Fu
1972 · Omar's Mother
movieAnother Part of the Forest
1972 · Coralee
movieSay Goodbye, Maggie Cole
1972 · Nurse Ferguson
tvThe Streets of San Francisco
1972
movieSixteen
1972 · Aunt Ada
tvFunny Face
1971
tvCannon
1971
tvAdam-12
1968 · Ethel May, Mary Handlin
tvMannix
1967
tvJudd, for the Defense
1967
tvIronside
1967
CBS Playhouse
tvCBS Playhouse
1966 · Mrs. Pierce
tvThe F.B.I.
1965 · Caregiver
tvThe Man from U.N.C.L.E.
1964 · Mama Lou
movie4 for Texas
1963 · Burden's Maid
movieWhat Ever Happened to Baby Jane?
1962 · Elvira Stitt
tvBen Casey
1961
tvDr. Kildare
1961 · Mrs. Johnson
No Greater Love
movieNo Greater Love
1960 · Queto's Mother
tvThe Twilight Zone
1959 · Maid (uncredited)
movieThe Opposite Sex
1956 · Violet (uncredited)
movieWritten on the Wind
1956 · Bertha
movieMan with the Gun
1955 · Sarah (uncredited)
tvMatinee Theater
1955
tvAlfred Hitchcock Presents
1955 · Eloise
movieMad at the World
1955 · Miss Lovett
movieTarzan's Hidden Jungle
1955 · Suma
movieAbout Mrs. Leslie
1954 · Camilla
movieSusan Slept Here
1954 · Georgette
movieExecutive Suite
1954 · Housekeeper (uncredited)
movieForever Female
1953 · Emma (uncredited)
movieTorch Song
1953 · Anne
tvLetter to Loretta
1953 · Flora, Josi
movieBright Road
1953 · Mrs. Hamilton - Tanya's Mother
tvCavalcade of America
1952 · Aunt Nellie
tvFour Star Playhouse
1952 · Coralee
tvHallmark Hall of Fame
1951 · Lurie
tvDragnet
1951
movieThe Well
1951 · Martha Crawford
Lux Video Theatre
tvLux Video Theatre
1950 · Flora, Maid
movieManhandled
1949 · Christine, Bennet's Maid (uncredited)
movieThe Peanut Man
1947 · Lucretia