Norman Alden
Born: 1924-09-13 in Forth Worth, Texas, USA
Died: 2012-07-27
Known For: Acting
Biography
Norman Alden (né Adelberg; September 13, 1924 – July 27, 2012) was an American character actor. His career lasted nearly 50 years, including many diverse and memorable performances. Some of his notable roles include the voice of Sir Kay in The Sword in the Stone (1963), Dr. Linstrom in I Never Promised You a Rose Garden (1977), diner owner Lou in Back to the Future (1985), the voice of Kranix in The Transformers: The Movie (1986), the construction foreman in They Live (1988), and cameraman Bill in Ed Wood (1994). Alden also made numerous guest appearances in popular shows like Gunsmoke, Perry Mason, and The Twilight Zone. Alden first discovered his passion for acting while attending Texas Christian University, where he participated in on-campus theater productions. After serving in the United States Army during World War II, he pursued a career in acting, making his first television appearance in 1957 on The 20th Century Fox Hour. Alden continued to work steadily until his retirement in 2006.
Filmography
2009
- Looking Back to the Future as Self
2006
- Looking Back at the Future as Himself
2002
- Night of the Wolf as Carl Casey
2001
- K-PAX as Babbling Man
1998
- Patch Adams as Truck Driver
1996
1995
- JAG as Mr. Platt
1994
- Ed Wood as Cameraman Bill
1992
1991
- Rugrats as Plastic Piggy (voice)
1989
- Cutting Class as Officer Fondulac
- Man Against the Mob: The Chinatown Murders as Chief of Police
- Roller Blade Warriors: Taken by Force as Bartender
1988
- TV 101 as Ralphie
- They Live as Foreman
- Lady Mobster as Sal Borolo
- Man Against the Mob as Capt. Necker
1987
- 21 Jump Street
- Off the Mark as Coach Elam
- Destination: America as Tom Beller
1986
- The Transformers: The Movie as Kranix (voice)
- Sledge Hammer! as Roscoe
- The Hogan Family
- Sunday Drive as Norman
1985
- Back to the Future as Lou
- Heart of a Champion: The Ray Mancini Story as Ray Arcel
- California Girls as Mr. Pegem
1984
- Murder, She Wrote as Mercer Hawthorne
- Hunter as Jerry Walsh
1983
- The A-Team as Ed Maloney
- Hardcastle and McCormick
- Webster
- The Rousters as Jackson Cobb
1982
- Cagney & Lacey as Dan Cobbin
- Matt Houston
- Silver Spoons
- Victor/Victoria as Man in Hotel with Shoes (uncredited)
- Desperate Lives as Coach
1981
- Falcon Crest as Det. Bitterman
- Hill Street Blues as Art Eastland
- The Fall Guy
- Nero Wolfe
- Code Red as Robert Melton
- Foul Play
1980
- Enos
- Stone
- Borderline as Willie Lambert
- Back to the Planet of the Apes as Zako
- Flamingo Road as Pete
- Cloud Dancer as Dr. Putman
1979
- The Facts of Life
- Trapper John, M.D.
- California Fever
- No Other Love as Les Hollister
- Samurai as Lt. Al DeNisco
1978
- Dallas as Senator Orloff
- Vega$
- Ring of Passion as Max Machon
1977
- The Love Boat as Ralph
- Eight Is Enough
- The All-New Super Friends Hour as Aquaman (voice)
- Hunter
- What Really Happened to the Class of '65?
- Young Dan'l Boone
- I Never Promised You a Rose Garden as McPherson
- Semi-Tough as Coach Alvin Parks
1976
- Quincy, M.E.
- Charlie's Angels as Louis Fluellen
- Alice
- Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman as Coach Leroy Fedders
- Electra Woman and Dyna Girl as Professor Frank Heflin
1975
- Starsky & Hutch
- One Day at a Time
- Switch as Barney
- Bronk
- Fay as Al Cassidy
1974
- The Rockford Files as Roland Eddy
- The Manhunter
- Planet of the Apes
- Devlin
- Terror on the 40th Floor as Capt. Parker
- Cry Panic as Doc Potter
1973
- Barnaby Jones as Timmer
- Kojak as Foster
- Super Friends
1972
- The Rookies
- The Streets of San Francisco
- Ben as Policeman
- Kansas City Bomber as Horrible Hank Hopkins
- Where Does It Hurt? as Katzen
- Stand Up and Be Counted as Businessman
- Two for the Money ... (Producer's Assistant)
- Kung Fu as Sheriff Crossman
1971
- Cannon
- Owen Marshall: Counselor at Law as Henry Grover
- McMillan & Wife as Randy Baine
- The Trackers as Pete Dilworth
- Cannon as Mitchell
1970
- Dan August as Benjamin Marsh
- Tora! Tora! Tora! as Major Truman Landon
- The Psychiatrist: God Bless the Children as Sheriff Glenn
1969
- Hawaii Five-O as Cameron
- Love, American Style as Paul
- Medical Center
- The Bold Ones: The New Doctors as Frank Harmon
- To Rome with Love
- The Great Bank Robbery as The Great Gregory - Balloonist
- All the Loving Couples as Mitch Burnett
- The Pigeon as Carl
1968
- Adam-12 as Sgt. John Hardwick
- The Mod Squad
- The Devil's Brigade as MP Lieutenant
- Fever Heat as Herbert Hupgrove
- Killers Three as Guthrie
- Chubasco as Frenchy
1967
- Mannix
- The Guns of Will Sonnett
- The Danny Thomas Hour as Marshak
- Rango
- Good Times as Warren
- First to Fight as Sergeant Schmidtmer
1966
- Batman as Henchman #1
- Family Affair
- Run, Buddy, Run
- The Wild Angels as Medic
1965
- Hogan's Heroes as Sergeant Krebs
- The F.B.I. as Norman Frome
- The Big Valley as Jeff Bowden
- Honey West as Ben Fancher
- Red Line 7000 as Pat
- Andy as Andy Chadakis
1964
- The Cara Williams Show
- Man's Favorite Sport? as John Screaming Eagle
- The Patsy as Bully at the Gym
- Bedtime Story as Dubin
1963
- Burke's Law as Mark Hodges
- My Favorite Martian as Detective Harris
- The Dakotas
- The Sword in the Stone as Kay (voice)
- The Travels of Jaimie McPheeters as Broken Mouth
- Temple Houston as Carlton Owens
- The Nutty Professor as Football Player
1962
- Combat! as Pfc. Cooper
- Saints and Sinners as Frank Donelli
1961
- Dr. Kildare as Bernie (uncredited)
- Ben Casey
- Cain's Hundred as Fred Jackson
- Everglades
- Portrait of a Mobster as Bo Wetzel
- Secret of Deep Harbor as Barney Haines
- Operation Bottleneck as Cpl. Lester 'Merc' Davenport
1960
- The Andy Griffith Show as Tom Strongbow
- My Three Sons
- The Walking Target as Sam Russo
1959
- Bonanza as Teller
- The Untouchables as Barry Carlton
- Mr. Lucky as Mitch
- The Lawless Years
- Hennesey as Seaman Herman Pulaski
- Philip Marlowe
- Not for Hire
1958
- The Rifleman as Duff
- Lawman as Charley - Townsman
- 77 Sunset Strip as Rene
- The Texan as Ryan
- Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse
- Man with a Camera
- The Power of the Resurrection as Gate Guard
1957
- Perry Mason as Darrel Reed
- Leave It to Beaver as Water Worker
- Richard Diamond, Private Detective as Ben Regan
- The Thin Man
- Panic!
1955
- The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp as Johnny Ringo
- Gunsmoke as Purlie Loftus
- The 20th Century Fox Hour as Frank Fallom
1954
1950
- The Jack Benny Program as Man with Iron Bar