The Work of George Wendt
Notes on the life and times of the late George Wendt, an actor with some size on him
George Wendt died yesterday at the age of 76. The big man who sat on that corner barstool for 11 seasons played a character of quiet truth that America understood immediately. Norm Peterson was the working stiff who needed a seat at the bar more than he needed the beer. We saw our sad, intelligent uncles in him. We saw the fathe…
