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Known For
Acting
Birthday
September 13, 1924
Died
July 27, 2012
Place of Birth
Forth Worth, Texas, USA
Norman Alden
6.1 Popularity
Biography
Norman Alden (né Adelberg; September 13, 1924 – July 27, 2012) was an American character actor. His career lasted nearly 50 years, including many diverse and memorable performances. Some of his notable roles include the voice of Sir Kay in The Sword in the Stone (1963), Dr. Linstrom in I Never Promised You a Rose Garden (1977), diner owner Lou in Back to the Future (1985), the voice of Kranix in The Transformers: The Movie (1986), the construction foreman in They Live (1988), and cameraman Bill in Ed Wood (1994). Alden also made numerous guest appearances in popular shows like Gunsmoke, Perry Mason, and The Twilight Zone. Alden first discovered his passion for acting while attending Texas Christian University, where he participated in on-campus theater productions. After serving in the United States Army during World War II, he pursued a career in acting, making his first television appearance in 1957 on The 20th Century Fox Hour. Alden continued to work steadily until his retirement in 2006.
Known For
7.3
Self
Looking Back to the Future
2009
🎬
7.3
Himself
Looking Back at the Future
2006
5.3
Carl Casey
Night of the Wolf
2002
7.2
Babbling Man
K-PAX
2001
7.3
Truck Driver
Patch Adams
1998
8.5
Tracey Takes On...
1996
7.3
Mr. Platt
JAG
1995
7.5
Cameraman Bill
Ed Wood
1994
7.5
Bodies of Evidence
1992
2.9
Bartender
Roller Blade Warriors: Taken by Force
1989
Credits
Looking Back to the Future
as Self
2009
7.3
🎬
Looking Back at the Future
as Himself
2006
7.3
Night of the Wolf
as Carl Casey
2002
5.3
K-PAX
as Babbling Man
2001
7.2
Patch Adams
as Truck Driver
1998
7.3
Tracey Takes On...
1996
8.5
JAG
as Mr. Platt
1995
7.3
Ed Wood
as Cameraman Bill
1994
7.5
Bodies of Evidence
1992
7.5
Roller Blade Warriors: Taken by Force
as Bartender
1989
2.9
Cutting Class
as Officer Fondulac
1989
5.0
Man Against the Mob: The Chinatown Murders
as Chief of Police
1989
5.5
TV 101
as Ralphie
1988
5.0
They Live
as Foreman
1988
7.3
Lady Mobster
as Sal Borolo
1988
4.2
Man Against the Mob
as Capt. Necker
1988
0.0
Off the Mark
as Coach Elam
1987
3.3
21 Jump Street
1987
7.2
Destination: America
as Tom Beller
1987
0.0
Sunday Drive
as Norman
1986
0.0
Sledge Hammer!
as Roscoe
1986
7.9
The Transformers: The Movie
as Kranix (voice)
1986
7.1
The Hogan Family
1986
6.8
Back to the Future
as Lou
1985
8.3
Heart of a Champion: The Ray Mancini Story
as Ray Arcel
1985
5.7
California Girls
as Mr. Pegem
1985
3.4
Murder, She Wrote
as Mercer Hawthorne
1984
7.5
Murder, She Wrote
as Bart Klapper
1984
7.5
Hunter
as Jerry Walsh
1984
7.1
Hunter
as Mike, Missing Persons
1984
7.1
Hunter
as Mike, Missing Persons (uncredited)
1984
7.1
Hardcastle and McCormick
1983
6.4
Webster
1983
5.8
The A-Team
as Ed Maloney
1983
7.5
The A-Team
as Mickey Stern
1983
7.5
Matt Houston
1982
6.2
Matt Houston
as Sheriff Tim Keeler
1982
6.2
Silver Spoons
1982
6.3
Victor/Victoria
as Man in Hotel with Shoes (uncredited)
1982
7.3
Cagney & Lacey
as Dan Cobbin
1982
7.0
Desperate Lives
as Coach
1982
6.0
Nero Wolfe
1981
7.4
Falcon Crest
as Det. Bitterman
1981
5.6
The Fall Guy
1981
7.5
Code Red
as Robert Melton
1981
5.5
Hill Street Blues
as Art Eastland
1981
7.6
Borderline
as Willie Lambert
1980
6.0
Back to the Planet of the Apes
as Zako
1980
5.5
Enos
1980
7.0
Cloud Dancer
as Dr. Putman
1980
5.6
Flamingo Road
as Pete
1980
0.0
Stone
1980
6.0
California Fever
1979
5.0
Trapper John, M.D.
1979
6.5
The Facts of Life
1979
7.1
Samurai
as Lt. Al DeNisco
1979
0.0
No Other Love
as Les Hollister
1979
7.0
Vega$
1978
7.0
Dallas
as Senator Orloff
1978
6.8
Ring of Passion
as Max Machon
1978
7.0
What Really Happened to the Class of '65?
1977
4.5
Semi-Tough
as Coach Alvin Parks
1977
5.5
The Love Boat
as Ralph
1977
6.3
Young Dan'l Boone
1977
5.0
The All-New Super Friends Hour
1977
7.4
I Never Promised You a Rose Garden
as McPherson
1977
5.8
Eight Is Enough
1977
6.1
Hunter
1977
8.0
Quincy, M.E.
1976
7.5
Charlie's Angels
as Louis Fluellen
1976
6.7
Charlie's Angels
as P. J. Wilkes
1976
6.7
Charlie's Angels
as Jake Barnett
1976
6.7
Electra Woman and Dyna Girl
as Professor Frank Heflin
1976
6.1
Alice
1976
7.1
Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman
as Coach Leroy Fedders
1976
7.1
One Day at a Time
1975
6.7
Starsky & Hutch
1975
7.3
Switch
as Barney
1975
6.7
🎬
Fay
as Al Cassidy
1975
5.0
Bronk
1975
6.2
Terror on the 40th Floor
as Capt. Parker
1974
4.2
The Rockford Files
as Roland Eddy
1974
7.6
Planet of the Apes
1974
6.9
The Manhunter
1974
5.0
Devlin
1974
5.0
Cry Panic
as Doc Potter
1974
6.8
Kojak
as Foster
1973
7.0
Super Friends
1973
7.6
Super Friends
as Aquaman (voice)
1973
7.6
Barnaby Jones
as Timmer
1973
6.9
Kung Fu
as Sheriff Crossman
1972
7.7
The Streets of San Francisco
1972
7.0
The Streets of San Francisco
as Sgt. Dan Healy
1972
7.0
The Rookies
1972
6.8
Kansas City Bomber
as Horrible Hank Hopkins
1972
5.9
Where Does It Hurt?
as Katzen
1972
5.1
Ben
as Policeman
1972
5.9
Stand Up and Be Counted
as Businessman
1972
7.0
The Trackers
as Pete Dilworth
1971
5.7
McMillan & Wife
as Randy Baine
1971
6.9
Owen Marshall: Counselor at Law
as Henry Grover
1971
6.3
Cannon
1971
6.6
Cannon
as Mitchell
1971
4.5
The Psychiatrist: God Bless the Children
as Sheriff Glenn
1970
0.0
Dan August
as Benjamin Marsh
1970
6.8
Tora! Tora! Tora!
as Major Truman Landon
1970
7.1
The Pigeon
as Carl
1969
0.0
Love, American Style
as Paul
1969
6.1
Love, American Style
as Barry
1969
6.1
Love, American Style
as Bernie
1969
6.1
To Rome with Love
1969
5.0
Medical Center
1969
6.1
The Great Bank Robbery
as The Great Gregory - Balloonist
1969
6.3
All the Loving Couples
as Mitch Burnett
1969
2.7
Killers Three
as Guthrie
1968
3.8
The Mod Squad
1968
6.2
The Mod Squad
as Parker
1968
6.2
The Mod Squad
as Russ Barry
1968
6.2
Adam-12
as Sgt. Hardwick
1968
7.0
Adam-12
as Charley Baker
1968
7.0
Hawaii Five-O
as Cameron
1968
7.1
🎬
Fever Heat
as Herbert Hupgrove
1968
0.0
The Devil's Brigade
as MP Lieutenant
1968
6.3
Chubasco
as Frenchy
1968
3.0
Mannix
1967
6.7
Mannix
as Travers
1967
6.7
Mannix
as Lou Griswold
1967
6.7
The Danny Thomas Hour
as Marshak
1967
5.0
The Guns of Will Sonnett
1967
6.2
Good Times
as Warren
1967
5.1
First to Fight
as Sergeant Schmidtmer
1967
7.9
Rango
1967
0.0
Family Affair
1966
6.7
Run, Buddy, Run
1966
7.0
The Wild Angels
as Medic
1966
5.5
Batman
as Henchman #1
1966
7.3
Red Line 7000
as Pat
1965
5.2
The F.B.I.
as Norman Frome
1965
5.4
The F.B.I.
as Worth
1965
5.4
Hogan's Heroes
as Sergeant Krebs
1965
7.5
Honey West
as Ben Fancher
1965
7.0
Honey West
as Artie Dixon
1965
7.0
The Big Valley
as Jeff Bowden
1965
6.1
Andy
as Andy Chadakis
1965
8.0
The Cara Williams Show
1964
5.0
The Patsy
as Bully at the Gym
1964
6.2
Bedtime Story
as Dubin
1964
6.2
Man's Favorite Sport?
as John Screaming Eagle
1964
6.9
The Sword in the Stone
as Kay (voice)
1963
7.2
The Travels of Jaimie McPheeters
as Broken Mouth
1963
5.3
My Favorite Martian
as Detective Harris
1963
5.9
Burke's Law
as Mark Hodges
1963
6.0
Temple Houston
as Carlton Owens
1963
5.7
The Nutty Professor
as Football Player
1963
6.5
The Dakotas
1963
5.7
Combat!
as Pfc. Cooper
1962
7.7
Combat!
as Pvt. Buford
1962
7.7
Saints and Sinners
as Frank Donelli
1962
6.0
Everglades
1961
8.5
Ben Casey
1961
5.6
Dr. Kildare
as Bernie (uncredited)
1961
5.5
Cain's Hundred
as Fred Jackson
1961
4.7
Secret of Deep Harbor
as Barney Haines
1961
1.0
Portrait of a Mobster
as Bo Wetzel
1961
0.0
Operation Bottleneck
as Cpl. Lester 'Merc' Davenport
1961
5.5
The Andy Griffith Show
as Tom Strongbow
1960
7.6
The Andy Griffith Show
as Hank
1960
7.6
The Walking Target
as Sam Russo
1960
5.0
My Three Sons
1960
6.5
Mr. Lucky
as Mitch
1959
6.4
Mr. Lucky
as Devil
1959
6.4
🎬
Not for Hire
1959
0.0
The Untouchables
as Barry Carlton
1959
7.8
The Untouchables
as John Henry Whitmore
1959
7.8
Philip Marlowe
1959
5.0
Hennesey
as Seaman Herman Pulaski
1959
6.0
Bonanza
as Teller
1959
7.5
The Lawless Years
1959
7.0
77 Sunset Strip
as Rene
1958
6.7
Man with a Camera
1958
4.6
Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse
1958
5.8
Lawman
as Charley - Townsman
1958
5.6
The Rifleman
as Duff
1958
7.1
The Texan
as Ryan
1958
5.5
The Power of the Resurrection
as Gate Guard
1958
0.0
Leave It to Beaver
as Water Dept. Worker
1957
6.9
Perry Mason
as Darrel Reed
1957
7.7
The Thin Man
1957
7.5
Richard Diamond, Private Detective
as Ben Regan
1957
6.2
Panic!
1957
0.0
The 20th Century Fox Hour
as Frank Fallom
1955
5.4
Gunsmoke
as Purlie Loftus
1955
6.6
Gunsmoke
as Deke Franklin
1955
6.6
Gunsmoke
as Berber
1955
6.6
Gunsmoke
as Amos Potter
1955
6.6
Gunsmoke
as Tom Hart
1955
6.6
The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp
as Johnny Ringo
1955
6.8
The Wonderful World of Disney
as Norman
1954
7.8
The Adventures of Rin Tin Tin
1954
6.9
The Adventures of Rin Tin Tin
as Black Cloud
1954
6.9
Lassie
1954
6.1
The Jack Benny Program
as Man with iron bar
1950
7.8