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 f...
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What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?
As Elvira Stitt
Halloween III: Season of the Witch
As Nurse Agnes
The Well
As Martha Crawford
Executive Suite
As Housekeeper
Written on the Wind
As Bertha
Susan Slept Here
As Georgette
Tarzan's Hidden Jungle
As Suma
Bright Road
As Mrs. Hamilton - Tanya's Mother
About Mrs. Leslie
As Camilla
Forever Female
As Emma
The Lie
As Janine
Airport '77
As Dorothy
A Star Is Born
As Justice of the Peace (uncredited)
Manhandled
As Christine, Bennet's Maid (uncredited)
Sixteen
As Aunt Ada
Another Part of the Forest
As Coralee
Maurie
As Mrs. Stokes
The Opposite Sex
As Violet (uncredited)
The Peanut Man
As Lucretia
Torch Song
As Anne
Say Goodbye, Maggie Cole
As Nurse Ferguson
Thornwell
As Ruth Thornwell
Secrets of a Mother and Daughter
As Neddy
4 for Texas
As Burden's Maid
A Dream for Christmas
As Jennie Daley
Mad at the World
As Miss Lovett
Sty of the Blind Pig
As Weedy Warren
Movie Movie
As Gussie ("Baxter's Beauties of 1933")
Man with the Gun
As Sarah (uncredited)
Be Pretty and Shut Up!
As Self
Delphine and Carole
As Self (archive footage)
Good Times
Rhoda
Kung Fu
Little House on the Prairie
The F.B.I.
As Caregiver
Simon & Simon
The Jeffersons
The Streets of San Francisco
Baretta
Mannix
Hotel
Dragnet
Cagney & Lacey
Cannon
Hallmark Hall of Fame
As Lurie
Ironside
Kolchak: The Night Stalker
As Librarian
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
As Eloise
The Twilight Zone
As Maid (uncredited)
Harry O
Funny Face
Police Woman
Lux Video Theatre
As Flora
Matt Houston
Judd for the Defense
Matinee Theater
Ben Casey
CBS Playhouse
Cavalcade of America
As Aunt Nellie
Dr. Kildare
As Mrs. Johnson
Letter to Loretta
As Flora
Adam-12
As Ethel May
Four Star Playhouse
As Coralee
The Man from U.N.C.L.E.
As Mama Lou
Roots: The Next Generations
As Sister Scrap Scott
The Incredible Hulk
As Mrs. Dennison