Norman Alexander Gibbs

Norman Gibbs was born in the Bronx, NYC, and attended DeWitt Clinton High School before studying theatre at California Institute of the Arts. In 1972, he was indicted for the illegal importation of and possession with the intent to distribute approximately fourteen pounds of cocaine, worth over $1,500,000 from Mexico, this after the actor had recently appeared in two films with similar fictional plots to his crime, The French Connection (1971) and The Godfather (1972) He later had featured roles in Disaster on the Coastliner (1979, with Lloyd Bridges, William Shatner, Michael Pataki and Jerry Ayres) and in episodes of The Bionic Woman (1977, starring Lindsay Wagner, with Whit Bissell), Salvage 1 (1979, with Paul Sorensen), Trapper John, M.D. (1979), and Palmerstown, U.S.A. (1980, with Don Keefer and John Schuck). Gibbs is perhaps best known on screen for his part as the First Jive Dud…