# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/george-wendt
# Generated: 2026-08-13T15:42:06.242Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/george-wendt"
name: "George Wendt"
slug: "george-wendt"
description: "George Robert Wendt Jr. was an American actor. Wendt played Norm Peterson on the NBC sitcom Cheers from 1982 to 1993, which earned him six consecutive nominations for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series. After Cheers ended, he starred in his own short-lived CBS sitcom, The George Wendt Show (1995)."
tagline: "American actor (1948–2025)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/George_Wendt_1989.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
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  slug: "actors"
profileType:
  name: "Actor"
  slug: "actor"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1948-10-17"
deathDate: "2025-05-20"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             8.364088344966056
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  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump