Biography
George Wendt is an American actor and comedian best known for his role on the television sitcom Cheers, for which he received six Emmy nominations. He also appeared in his own sitcom, The George Wendt Show, which was terminated after only a few episodes. He has appeared in a variety of films, including Fletch, Gung Ho, Dreamscape, House, Forever Young, Hostage for a Day, Man of the House, and Lakeboat.
Age
He is 75 years old as of 17 October 2023. He was born in 1948 in Beverly, Chicago, Illinois, United States. His real name is George Robert Wendt Jr.
Family – Education
Wendt Jr. was born in the Beverly area on Chicago’s south side. His parents were Loretta Mary (née Howard) and George Robert Wendt, a Navy officer and realtor. He is one of nine children, including six sisters (Nancy, Karen, Mary Ann, Kathryn, Loretta, and Marti) and two brothers (Tom and Paul). His maternal grandfather was Tom Howard, a photographer. Wendt is of Irish and quarter-German ancestry.
He attended Campion High School in Prairie du Chien, Wisconsin. He was expelled from the University of Notre Dame after earning a 0.00 GPA during the first semester of his junior year. He later attended Jesuit Rockhurst College in Kansas City, Missouri, where he earned a B.A. in economics. Wendt is the uncle of Jason Sudeikis, an actor and former SNL writer and cast member who is the son of his sister Kathryn.
Wife – Children
Wendt is married to Bernadette Birkett, and they have three children: Hilary, Joseph, and Daniel.
Net Worth
He has an estimated net worth of $25 million.
The Masked Singer
Wendt appeared as “Moose” on season nine of The Masked Singer in 2023, and he spent the majority of the performance sitting down. He was ousted from “’80s Night” alongside Christine Quinn of Selling Sunsets as “Scorpio”.
Cheers
From 1982 until 1993, Wendt played Norm Peterson in all 275 episodes of Cheers. Wendt received six Primetime Emmy Award nominations for his role in Cheers as Best Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series. He also appeared in the short-lived spinoff The Tortellis in an episode of Wings.
Saturday Night Live
His first appearance on Saturday Night Live was in season 11 (1985-1986), when he co-hosted with director Francis Ford Coppola. In 1988, he played “Witten” in the New Zealand-made film Never Say Die. on the early 1990s, Wendt appeared on multiple episodes of SNL as Bob Swerski, one of the Chicago Superfans (along with cast members Chris Farley, Mike Myers, Robert Smigel, and one-time host Joe Mantegna). Wendt’s Bob Swerski character, who grew up as a lifelong supporter of his hometown Chicago White Sox and Chicago Bears, is regarded to be a “spot-on” representation of Chicago’s south side residents.
Career
George Wendt, a 1975 graduate of The Subsequent City, was enlivened by a review and joined the big time not long after school. He met his future spouse, Bernadette Birkett, who played Bluff’s Halloween date in the third time of Cheers and later played the voice of Norm’s never-seen wife, Vera.
Wendt showed up in the 1980 film My Protector and played little parts in the television series Taxi, Cleanser, and M*A*S*H. In 1982, he handled his most memorable job as a series customary on the CBS sitcom Measuring up. In 1989, Wendt showed up as the eponymous hero in a BBC television performance of Ivan Goncharov’s clever Oblomov. At any rate, he additionally showed up two times on the first English version of Whose Line Is It? in 1991’s Blameworthy by Doubt and with Mel Gibson in 1992’s Eternity Youthful.
Following his prosperity on Cheers, Wendt featured in the fleeting The George Wendt Show, which highlighted him as a carport specialist with a public broadcast in view of the NPR public broadcast Vehicle Talk. He featured as the executioner in one of the last episodes of the television series Columbo, depicting a pure breed horse proprietor in the 1995 episode Odd Partners. Wendt showed up as himself on Seinfeld and repeated the person Norm Peterson on The Simpsons episode “Apprehension about Flying”, two episodes of Family Fellow, “Street to Rupert” and “Three Rulers”, and the Frasier episode “Happy Farewells”.
In 1998, Wendt was one of the three characters in a London West End creation of ‘Workmanship’ with David Dukes and Stacy Keach. He would later join the Broadway creation of the play, featuring close by Judd Hirsch and Joe Morton. In 2003, Wendt showed up as a superstar angler in the music video for Cobra Verde’s “Mob Industry” alongside Rudy Beam Moore and The Minutemen’s Mike Watt. He showed up in a few episodes of The WB’s Sabrina, The Teen Witch in 2001 as the title character’s chief.
In 2006, Wendt showed up on The Larry Sanders Show as a visitor, showing up on Late Night with Conan O’Brien where he performed short productions. He showed up in a 2006 episode of Bosses of Ghastliness named “Family” coordinated by John Landis and played St Nick Claus in the ABC Family unique film St Nick Child. In 2009, Wendt featured as St Nick Claus in St Nick Mates and played a little part in the film Inverse Day.
During the 2010s, Wendt showed up in a creation of Hairspray, repeating his job as Edna Turnblad, from September 8 to October 9, 2010, at the Charlottetown Celebration in Sovereign Edward Island, Canada. He played St Nick in Mythical being the Melodic on Broadway and featured in a development of Hairspray as Edna Turnblad at Rainbow Stage in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, from August 2, 2011, to August 21, 2011.
Wendt is among the performers who partook in a banner mission promoting live venue in Chicago, with different superstars including John Mahoney, John Malkovich, Terry Kinney, and Martha Plimpton. He has an appearance as a journalist on Portlandia on January 25, 2013, and is set to assume the part of Pap in the Hank Williams bio melodic Lost Thruway at the Carousel Playhouse in Reddish, New York.
Starting in the fall of 2013, Wendt showed up in a TV plug for State Ranch Protection, highlighting Robert Smigel and Robert Smigel as the Chicago Superfans, who experience quarterback Aaron Rodgers. From November 6, 2013, to January 19, 2014, Wendt featured in Never Past the point of no return, a satire with his better half, entertainer Bernadette Birkett, at New Theater Eatery in Overland Park, Kansas. In this play, Wendt plays a fruitful wood yard proprietor who is ruler of his palace and whose life is going the very way he needs until his better half returns from a regular checkup with some large news.
In 2015, Wendt featured inverse his previous Second City co-star Tim Kazurinsky in Bruce Graham’s new satire Jokester at Northlight Theater. That very year, Wendt showed up in the TBS sitcom Cut, which broadcasted for one season.
Wendt showed up as Tracy Turnblad’s mom in a development of Hairspray highlighting John Waters and the Baltimore Ensemble Symphony in Baltimore in June 2016.
Wendt featured in The Astonishing Lipitones at New Theater Eatery in Overland Park, Kansas from November 30, 2016, to February 12, 2017. Wendt featured as Willy Loman in Death of a Sales rep at St. Jacob’s Country Playhouse in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada, from October 18 to November 4, 2017.
Movies
♦ 2000 – Garage: A Rock Saga
♦ 2001 – Prairie Dogs
♦ 2002 – Teddy Bears’ Picnic
♦ 2003 – My Dinner with Jimi
♦ 2005 – As Seen On TV
♦ 2007 – LA Blues
♦ 2008 – Clean Break
♦ 2009 – Opposite Day
♦ 2016 – Wake Up America!
♦ 2017 – Sandy Wexler
♦ 2018 – The Independents
♦ 2018 – Dream Flight
♦ 2018 – Dr. Sugar
♦ 2018 – The Deadbeat
♦ 2019 – Grand-Daddy Day
♦ 2020 – Stealing a Survivor
♦ 2021 – Americanish
♦ 2022 – Christmas with the Campbells
TV Shows
♦ 2007–2009 – Family Guy
♦ 2008 – A Colbert Christmas: The Greatest Gift of All!
♦ 2010 – Cubed
♦ 2010 – Less Than Kind
♦ 2010 – Ghost Whisperer
♦ 2011 – Hot in Cleveland
♦ 2012 – The Seven Year Hitch
♦ 2012 – Kickin’ It
♦ 2012 – A Christmas Wedding Date
♦ 2013 – Portlandia
♦ 2014 – Kirstie
♦ 2014 – Verdene and Gleneda
♦ 2014 – Franklin & Bash
♦ 2015 – Comedy Bang! Bang!
♦ 2016 – Childrens Hospital
♦ 2017 – Mommy, I Didn’t Do It
♦ 2018 – The Greatest American Hero
♦ 2018–2020 – Fancy Nancy
♦ 2019 – Eddie’s
♦ 2019 – Your Pretty Face Is Going to Hell
♦ 2019 – Peyton’s Places
♦ 2023 – The Masked Singer