George Vandt, an actor with every person who played the same, beer-loving Barfali Norm on the 1980s TV comedy “Cheers” and later prepared a platform career, which took him to Broadway in “Art, Hairspray” and “Alph”. He was 76 years old.
Vandt’s family said that he died on Tuesday (May 20, 2025) in the morning, who stayed at home peacefully, according to the agency group, in his sleep.
The family said in a statement, “George was a dotting family man, a well -loving friend and a confidant to all those who knew him.” “He will be remembered forever.” The family has requested secrecy during this period.
Despite a long career on stage and on TV, it was the most connected to the “cheers” as a gentle and henpened normal Peterson, he was the most attached, earning six direct Amy award nominations for the best actor in a comedy series since 1984-89.
The series was focused on cute losses in a Boston Bar and starred Ted Danson, Shelley Long, Riya Parlman, Kelsey Grammar, John Ratzenberger, Kirsty Elle and Woody Harelson. This would close another MHz in the “Fragier” and was nominated for a stunning 117 Amy Awards, of which 28 wins.
Vendent, who spent six years in the Famous Mandali of the famous other city of Chicago, did not have high expectations on auditioning for “cheers” before sitting on a barns on a barrier at the place where everyone knows your name.
“My agent said,” This is a small role, honey. It’s a line. In fact, it is a word. ” The word was ‘beer’. I was believing at a difficult time that I was ‘right for the role of the man who looked like he wanted a beer.’ So I went in, and he said, ‘This is a very small role. And it was a person who never left the bar, ”Vandt told Giku In an oral history of “cheers”.
“Cheers” premiered on September 30, 1982, and spent the first season with a low rating. NBC President Brandon Tarticoff made the show champion, and was nominated for Amy for the Best Comedy Series in its first season. Some 80 million people will tune to see the conclusion of its series after 11 years.
A fan inside and outside the vendant bar became a favorite – his entrance a hot “ideal!” – And his intelligent always landed. “How is a beer sound, ideal?” He will be asked by the bartender. “I don’t know. I usually complete them before receiving a word,” he will answer.
While the cast was drank on the set was the beer nonclogic, members of the vendts and other “cheers” artists admitted that they were tipsy on May 20, 1993, when they watched the final episode of the show, they appeared together on a live broadcast in a live telecast from Bull and Finch Pub in Boston.
“We had been drinking heavy alcohol for two hours, but no one thought to feed us,” Vandt told that Beaver County Times In 2009 of Pennsylvania. “We were not as cute anywhere as we thought we were.”
Pearlman, who regularly served the vendt on “cheers”, in a statement he had “the most beloved, kind man I had ever found. It was impossible not to like him.
“As Carla, I was often standing next to her, as the Norm always took the same seat at the end of the bar, making her easy to catch and defeated the fuck out of it at least once a week. I loved to do so and she showed that she could not hurt it.
After “Cheers”, Vendt acted in his own short-term Sutcom “The George Vendent Show”-“Very badly he had to get out of the norm and down from the corner stool for his debut Stanza,” Sinkha, and “The Ghost Whisper,” The laws of “Harry” and “Harry’s law” and “Portlandia” were guests in TV shows. He was part of a brotherhood from Chicago, gathering on sausage and beer and staring at “da beer” on “Saturday night live”. In 2023, he competed on “The masked singer”.
But he found on the stable work stage: Vandt slipped on Housecot in Edna Turnbad in Broadway’s “Hareprepray” starting in 2007, and was in Tony Award winning play “Art” in New York and London.
He acted in the national tour of “12 Angry Men” and appeared in the production of David Mammate’s “Lakebot”. He also starred in “Death of a Salesman,” “The Odddi,” “Never to Late” and “Funman”.
“A. This is the most fun ever, but B, I think I have been dropped from television,” Vendant told the Canus City Star in 2011. “I welcomed myself. But the theater suits me.”
Vendent had an intimacy to play the role of Santa Claus, charity of red outfit in the stage music “Elf” on Broadway in 2017, TV film “Santa Baby” with Jenny Macarthi in 2006 and Dogi Disney Video “Santa Badij” in 2009. He also played Father Christmas for TV Special for Larry’s cable and Stephen Callbert.
The actor jokingly told AP in his broadway dressing room, “I think it just proves that if you are quite thick and get very old, then the offer starts rolling into the offer.”
Born in Chicago, Vendt attended the Campion High School, which is a Catholic boarding school in Prey Du Chion, Vicoconsin, and then the Notre Dame, where he rarely went to the classroom and was thrown out. He transferred to Rockharst University in Canasus City and graduated after studying in economics.
He found a house in another city in both the touring company and the mainstage.
“I think comedy is my long suit, of course. My approach to comedy is usually not a complete clownish,” he told AP. “If you are trying to show out or step out, it does not always work. There are some artists who are almost specialized in doing so, and they do it really well. But it’s not my approach.”
He had a lifetime relationship with beer. He took his first taste as an 8 -year -old child and was intoxicated at the age of 16 at the World Fair in New York.
His beer knowledge was put into a book and drinking with George: A-Farsul Professional’s guide to beer, “co-written with Jonathan Grotenstein. A line:” Will Rogers once said that he never met a person who did not like him. I think the same about beer. ,
Part autobiography, part beer drinker guide, the book had connivance tones and lists of the vendant, such as “Five Good Bar Bates,”, 77 Toasts from the World “and” more than “(more than), to say that you are intoxicated,” who lists 126 synonyms from “aanahilated” through “ahinahilated”.
He is alive by his wife, Second City Alum Burned Bircate, who never saw the norms on “cheers”-not seen a better half; His children, Hillary, Joe and Daniel; And their half -children, Joshua and Andrew.
“With its prestigious role with another city as a norm on cheers, George Vendent’s work showed how comedy can manufacture indelible characters that feel like family. During 11 sessions, he brought heat and humor in one of the most cute roles of television,” Gundarsan, executive director of the National Comedy Center, said in a statement.
Published – May 21, 2025 09:09 AM IST
