Biography
Zack Norman was an American actor, comedian and producer. Born Howard Jerrold Zuker in Boston on 27 May 1940 and raised in nearby Revere, he began as a stand-up comic, appearing on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson in 1969, and later worked as a film financier and producer, notably on the Oscar-winning documentary Hearts and Minds (1974).
He is best known for playing Ira, the crocodile-loving antiquities smuggler, in Romancing the Stone (1984). Norman had recurring television roles including on The Nanny (1993–1995) and appeared in films such as Ragtime (1981), Cadillac Man (1990) and several directed by Henry Jaglom, among them Festival in Cannes (2001). He died in Burbank, California, on 28 April 2024.
