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George Wendt
WikiPop's Pick · May 20, 2025

George Wendt

American actor (1948–2025)

On May 20, 2025, the most-viewed article on Wikipedia was George Wendt, with 461,659 views. The rest of the day's top 10 is below.

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).

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