Maidie Norman

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 f...

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What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?

As Elvira Stitt

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Halloween III: Season of the Witch

As Nurse Agnes

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The Well

As Martha Crawford

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Executive Suite

As Housekeeper

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Written on the Wind

As Bertha

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Susan Slept Here

As Georgette

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Tarzan's Hidden Jungle

As Suma

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Bright Road

As Mrs. Hamilton - Tanya's Mother

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About Mrs. Leslie

As Camilla

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Forever Female

As Emma

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The Lie

As Janine

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Airport '77

As Dorothy

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A Star Is Born

As Justice of the Peace (uncredited)

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Manhandled

As Christine, Bennet's Maid (uncredited)

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Sixteen

As Aunt Ada

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Another Part of the Forest

As Coralee

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Maurie

As Mrs. Stokes

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The Opposite Sex

As Violet (uncredited)

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The Peanut Man

As Lucretia

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Torch Song

As Anne

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Say Goodbye, Maggie Cole

As Nurse Ferguson

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Thornwell

As Ruth Thornwell

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Secrets of a Mother and Daughter

As Neddy

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4 for Texas

As Burden's Maid

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A Dream for Christmas

As Jennie Daley

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Mad at the World

As Miss Lovett

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Sty of the Blind Pig

As Weedy Warren

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Movie Movie

As Gussie ("Baxter's Beauties of 1933")

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Man with the Gun

As Sarah (uncredited)

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Delphine and Carole

As Self (archive footage)

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Be Pretty and Shut Up!

As Self

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Good Times

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Rhoda

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Kung Fu

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Little House on the Prairie

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The F.B.I.

As Caregiver

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Simon & Simon

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The Jeffersons

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The Streets of San Francisco

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Baretta

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Mannix

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Hotel

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Dragnet

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Cagney & Lacey

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Cannon

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Hallmark Hall of Fame

As Lurie

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Ironside

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Kolchak: The Night Stalker

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Alfred Hitchcock Presents

As Eloise

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The Twilight Zone

As Maid (uncredited)

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Harry O

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Funny Face

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Police Woman

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Lux Video Theatre

As Flora

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Matt Houston

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Judd for the Defense

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Matinee Theater

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Ben Casey

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CBS Playhouse

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Cavalcade of America

As Aunt Nellie

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Dr. Kildare

As Mrs. Johnson

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Letter to Loretta

As Flora

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Adam-12

As Ethel May

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Four Star Playhouse

As Coralee

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The Man from U.N.C.L.E.

As Mama Lou

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Roots: The Next Generations

As Sister Scrap Scott

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The Incredible Hulk

As Mrs. Dennison