--- name: "Maidie Norman" canonical: "https://film.one/person/maidie-norman" fi1m_id: "maidie-norman" imdb_id: "nm0635564" tmdb_id: 103087 wikidata_id: "Q1885160" roles: ["Actor"] born: "16 October 1912" died: "2 May 1998" reviewed_on_fi1m: 2 average_fi1m_score: 82 average_as: "actor" average_over: 2 updated: "2026-09-26T14:42:45.675689+00:00" licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL." --- # Maidie Norman ## Identity Maidie Norman - **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/maidie-norman - **Type:** Person - **Fi1m ID:** maidie-norman - **IMDb ID:** nm0635564 - **TMDB ID:** 103087 - **Wikidata ID:** Q1885160 - **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maidie_Norman, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1885160, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0635564/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/103087 Actor. Born 16 October 1912 in Villa Rica, Georgia, USA. Died 2 May 1998. ## Details - **Work:** Actor - **Born:** 16 October 1912, Villa Rica, Georgia, USA - **Died:** 2 May 1998 - **Active:** 1956–1962 - **Also known as:** Mady Norman, Madie Norman, Maidie Ruth Norman - **Average Fi1m score:** 82, as actor, over 2 titles - **Fi1m score by decade:** 1950s 83 (1), 1960s 82 (1) - **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maidie_Norman, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1885160, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0635564/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/103087 ## Streaming the US now - **Tubi:** [*What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?*](https://film.one/film/what-ever-happened-to-baby-jane.md) (82) For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country. ## Biography Maidie Norman was an American actress and educator. Born Maidie Ruth Gamble on 16 October 1912 in Villa Rica, Georgia, she earned a B.A. from Bennett College in 1934 and an M.A. from Columbia University in 1937. She trained at the Actors Lab in Hollywood between 1946 and 1949. Norman made her film debut in *The Peanut Man* (1947) and appeared in supporting roles in films including *Written on the Wind* (1956) and *What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?* (1962), in which she played Elvira Stitt. She also had television roles in series such as *The Twilight Zone*, *Kung Fu*, *Little House on the Prairie* and *Roots: The Next Generation*. In the 1960s and 1970s she worked as an artist-in-residence at Stanford University and as a lecturer and teacher at UCLA, where she created a course on the history of Black theatre in America. Norman was a founding member of the American Negro Theater West. She was inducted into the Black Filmmakers Hall of Fame in 1977, and an annual award for undergraduate research in Black theatre is named after her at UCLA. She died on 2 May 1998 in San Jose, California. *Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com, latimes.com, nytimes.com.* ## On Fi1m (2) - *What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?* (1962), Fi1m 82, as Elvira Stitt — [page](https://film.one/film/what-ever-happened-to-baby-jane.md) - *Written on the Wind* (1956), Fi1m 83, as Bertha — [page](https://film.one/film/written-on-the-wind.md) ## Complete filmography (67) Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page. - *Terrorist on Trial: The United States vs. Salim Ajami* (1988), as Edna - *Secrets of a Mother and Daughter* (1983), as Neddy - *Halloween III: Season of the Witch* (1982), as Nurse Agnes - *Matt Houston* (1982), series, Actor - *Hotel* (1982), series, as Carrie Garland - *Cagney & Lacey* (1982), series, as Elevator Operator — Fi1m 81, [page](https://film.one/tv/cagney-and-lacey.md) - *Simon & Simon* (1981), series, Actor - *Thornwell* (1981), as Ruth Thornwell - *Roots: The Next Generations* (1979), series, as Sister Scrap Scott - *Movie Movie* (1978), as Gussie ("Baxter's Beauties of 1933") - *The Incredible Hulk* (1977), series, as Mrs. Dennison - *Airport '77* (1977), as Dorothy - *A Star Is Born* (1976), as Justice of the Peace (uncredited) - *The Jeffersons* (1975), series, Actor - *Baretta* (1975), series, Actor - *Kolchak: The Night Stalker* (1974), series, as Librarian - *Police Woman* (1974), series, Actor - *Harry O* (1974), series, Actor - *Little House on the Prairie* (1974), series, as Mrs. Henry - *Rhoda* (1974), series, Actor - *Sty of the Blind Pig* (1974), as Weedy Warren - *Good Times* (1974), series, Actor - *A Dream for Christmas* (1973), as Jennie Daley - *Maurie* (1973), as Mrs. Stokes - *The Lie* (1973), as Janine - *Kung Fu* (1972), series, as Omar's Mother - *Another Part of the Forest* (1972), as Coralee - *Say Goodbye, Maggie Cole* (1972), as Nurse Ferguson - *The Streets of San Francisco* (1972), series, Actor - *Sixteen* (1972), as Aunt Ada - *Funny Face* (1971), series, Actor - *Cannon* (1971), series, Actor - *Adam-12* (1968), series, as Ethel May, Mary Handlin - *Mannix* (1967), series, Actor - *Judd, for the Defense* (1967), series, Actor - *Ironside* (1967), series, Actor - *CBS Playhouse* (1966), series, as Mrs. Pierce - *The F.B.I.* (1965), series, as Caregiver - *The Man from U.N.C.L.E.* (1964), series, as Mama Lou - *4 for Texas* (1963), as Burden's Maid - *What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?* (1962), as Elvira Stitt — Fi1m 82, [page](https://film.one/film/what-ever-happened-to-baby-jane.md) - *Ben Casey* (1961), series, Actor - *Dr. Kildare* (1961), series, as Mrs. Johnson - *No Greater Love* (1960), as Queto's Mother - *The Twilight Zone* (1959), series, as Maid (uncredited) — Fi1m 84, [page](https://film.one/tv/the-twilight-zone.md) - *The Opposite Sex* (1956), as Violet (uncredited) - *Written on the Wind* (1956), as Bertha — Fi1m 83, [page](https://film.one/film/written-on-the-wind.md) - *Matinee Theater* (1955), series, Actor - *Man with the Gun* (1955), as Sarah (uncredited) - *Alfred Hitchcock Presents* (1955), series, as Eloise - *Mad at the World* (1955), as Miss Lovett - *Tarzan's Hidden Jungle* (1955), as Suma - *About Mrs. Leslie* (1954), as Camilla - *Susan Slept Here* (1954), as Georgette - *Executive Suite* (1954), as Housekeeper (uncredited) - *Forever Female* (1953), as Emma (uncredited) - *Torch Song* (1953), as Anne - *Letter to Loretta* (1953), series, as Flora, Josi - *Bright Road* (1953), as Mrs. Hamilton - Tanya's Mother - *Cavalcade of America* (1952), series, as Aunt Nellie - *Four Star Playhouse* (1952), series, as Coralee - *Hallmark Hall of Fame* (1951), series, as Lurie - *Dragnet* (1951), series, Actor - *The Well* (1951), as Martha Crawford - *Lux Video Theatre* (1950), series, as Flora, Maid - *Manhandled* (1949), as Christine, Bennet's Maid (uncredited) - *The Peanut Man* (1947), as Lucretia ## Gallery - ![Maidie Norman](https://film.one/media/person/3874429/gallery-1cbfa9f27a29.jpg) Maidie Norman — Carl Van Vechten, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/de/Maidie_Norman_%281951_-_Van_Vechten%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled) - ![Maidie Norman](https://film.one/media/person/3874429/gallery-2fe9e353bee3.jpg) Maidie Norman — Image via TMDB ## Awards ### Other awards — 1 won - Black Filmmakers Hall of Fame 1977: Black Filmmakers Hall of Fame (won) *From Wikidata, which records wins more completely than nominations.* --- © Fi1m Ltd. 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