Episode 2940
George Wendt
Wed, 2025-May-21 09:43 UTC
Length - 1:37
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Welcome to Popular Wiki of the Day, spotlighting Wikipedia's most visited pages, giving you a peek into what the world is curious about today.
With 462,413 views on Tuesday, 20 May 2025 our article of the day is George Wendt.
George Robert Wendt Jr. (October 17, 1948 – May 20, 2025) was an American actor. From 1982 to 1993, Wendt played Norm Peterson on the NBC sitcom Cheers, 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 sitcom, The George Wendt Show (1995), but it was cancelled after only a few episodes. Wendt also appeared in the films Airplane II: The Sequel (1982), No Small Affair (1984), Fletch (1985), The Little Rascals (1994), Man of the House (1995), Spice World (1997), Outside Providence (1999), Santa Buddies (2009), and Sandy Wexler (2017).
This recording reflects the Wikipedia text as of 09:43 UTC on Wednesday, 21 May 2025.
For the full current version of the article, see George Wendt on Wikipedia.
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