George Wendt, who won six consecutive nominations to the Emmy Award at the Emmy Award for his role as Bearish-Quaffing Everyman Peterson on the Sustainable Sitcom “Cheers”, died Tuesday morning at home in Studio City, California. He was 76 years old.
His death was confirmed by his manager, Geoff Cheddy, who did not specify.
During more than four decades, Mr. Wendt accumulated around 170 cinematographic and television credits. But he was best known for “Cheers”. He appeared on each episode of the sitcom during his 11 -year -old race on NBC, which began in 1982. His sequence of Emmy’s appointments for the exceptional support actor in a comedy series started in 1984.
Mr. Wendt, originally from the southern side of Chicago, began his entertainment career in the inglative way, sweeping the floors of the second City, the famous improvisation comedy club in his hometown who helped launch the career of generations of stars, including John Belushi, Mike Myers, Tina Fey and Amy Poehler.
In 1974, he became part of the production company and resident of Second City. “I had no actor experience in my history,” he said in an interview in 2013 with the newspaper Democrat and Chronicle of Rochester, NY, “but something just clicked.” He stayed with the company until 1980.
With his easy charm and his minor behavior, Mr. Wendt went to Hollywood to appear in the pilot for an NBC program entitled “Nothing but the comedy” “He then arose in popular television shows like” Taxi “,” Alice “and” Hart to Hart “before becoming one of the favorite barflies of America on” Cheers “.
He later said that his pronounced circumference was the key to the role, making the standard the guy that viewers would feel as sitting next to their neighborhood bar.
“A good thing to be big to make a living is that you don’t worry about losing weight or following a diet,” said Wendt. “I do not know how much I should lose before it is noticeable. Anyway, if I lost 100 pounds, people would say:” Oh, no, not another big actor wanting to be a leading man! “”
While the character of the norm was natural from whom he was, he said, there were certainly differences between fiction and reality.
“The standard you see in” applause “has been ongoing years,” he said. “I have characteristics in common with him in addition to our inclination for beer. But I think I am much happier than the norm.”
He added: “I was a beer drinker long before” Cheers “. When I put some packs on my grocery basket, people are satisfied.
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Ash wu Contributed reports.
