
Norman Alden
Acting • Born 1924-09-13 – Died 2012-07-27
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
203 credits
Ed Wood
Movie • 1994
Cameraman Bill

Sunday Drive
Movie • 1986
Norman

The Transformers: The Movie
Movie • 1986
Kranix (voice)

Borderline
Movie • 1980
Willie Lambert

The Sword in the Stone
Movie • 1963
Kay (voice)

The Wild Angels
Movie • 1966
Medic

Man's Favorite Sport?
Movie • 1964
John Screaming Eagle

The Nutty Professor
Movie • 1963
Football Player

All the Loving Couples
Movie • 1969
Mitch Burnett

The Psychiatrist: God Bless the Children
Movie • 1970
Sheriff Glenn

The Walking Target
Movie • 1960
Sam Russo

Looking Back to the Future
Movie • 2009
Self

Portrait of a Mobster
Movie • 1961
Bo Wetzel

Kansas City Bomber
Movie • 1972
Horrible Hank Hopkins

Operation Bottleneck
Movie • 1961
Cpl. Lester 'Merc' Davenport

Back to the Future
Movie • 1985
Lou

The Trackers
Movie • 1971
Pete Dilworth

Secret of Deep Harbor
Movie • 1961
Barney Haines

Cloud Dancer
Movie • 1980
Dr. Putman

Cannon
Movie • 1971
Mitchell

Destination: America
Movie • 1987
Tom Beller

Red Line 7000
Movie • 1965
Pat

Good Times
Movie • 1967
Warren

First to Fight
Movie • 1967
Sergeant Schmidtmer

Flamingo Road
Movie • 1980
Pete

They Live
Movie • 1988
Foreman

Stand Up and Be Counted
Movie • 1972
Businessman

Off the Mark
Movie • 1987
Coach Elam

Andy
Movie • 1965
Andy Chadakis

Killers Three
Movie • 1968
Guthrie

Looking Back at the Future
Movie • 2006
Himself

California Girls
Movie • 1985
Mr. Pegem

Lady Mobster
Movie • 1988
Sal Borolo

Back to the Planet of the Apes
Movie • 1980
Zako

Fever Heat
Movie • 1968
Herbert Hupgrove

Cry Panic
Movie • 1974
Doc Potter

Heart of a Champion: The Ray Mancini Story
Movie • 1985
Ray Arcel

Ben
Movie • 1972
Policeman

Man Against the Mob: The Chinatown Murders
Movie • 1989
Chief of Police

Samurai
Movie • 1979
Lt. Al DeNisco

Roller Blade Warriors: Taken by Force
Movie • 1989
Bartender

Ring of Passion
Movie • 1978
Max Machon

Cutting Class
Movie • 1989
Officer Fondulac

Tora! Tora! Tora!
Movie • 1970
Major Truman Landon

Semi-Tough
Movie • 1977
Coach Alvin Parks

Night of the Wolf
Movie • 2002
Carl Casey

Terror on the 40th Floor
Movie • 1974
Capt. Parker

Where Does It Hurt?
Movie • 1972
Katzen

No Other Love
Movie • 1979
Les Hollister

Man Against the Mob
Movie • 1988
Capt. Necker

I Never Promised You a Rose Garden
Movie • 1977
McPherson

The Patsy
Movie • 1964
Bully at the Gym

The Devil's Brigade
Movie • 1968
MP Lieutenant

The Pigeon
Movie • 1969
Carl

Desperate Lives
Movie • 1982
Coach

The Great Bank Robbery
Movie • 1969
The Great Gregory - Balloonist

Patch Adams
Movie • 1998
Truck Driver

Victor/Victoria
Movie • 1982
Man in Hotel with Shoes (uncredited)

K-PAX
Movie • 2001
Babbling Man

The Power of the Resurrection
Movie • 1958
Gate Guard

Bedtime Story
Movie • 1964
Dubin

Chubasco
Movie • 1968
Frenchy

Planet of the Apes
TV • 1974

Falcon Crest
TV • 1981
Det. Bitterman

Murder, She Wrote
TV • 1984
Mercer Hawthorne

The Andy Griffith Show
TV • 1960
Tom Strongbow

Alice
TV • 1976

Hardcastle and McCormick
TV • 1983

Family Affair
TV • 1966

Sledge Hammer!
TV • 1986
Roscoe

Super Friends
TV • 1973

Burke's Law
TV • 1963
Mark Hodges

Cain's Hundred
TV • 1961
Fred Jackson

The Rookies
TV • 1972

Trapper John, M.D.
TV • 1979

The A-Team
TV • 1983
Ed Maloney

My Three Sons
TV • 1960

Starsky & Hutch
TV • 1975

The Facts of Life
TV • 1979

The F.B.I.
TV • 1965
Norman Frome

The Love Boat
TV • 1977
Ralph

Mr. Lucky
TV • 1959
Mitch

Silver Spoons
TV • 1982

Batman
TV • 1966
Henchman #1

Hawaii Five-O
TV • 1968
Cameron

Quincy, M.E.
TV • 1976

The Streets of San Francisco
TV • 1972

Tracey Takes On...
TV • 1996

The Travels of Jaimie McPheeters
TV • 1963
Broken Mouth

Webster
TV • 1983

Charlie's Angels
TV • 1976
Louis Fluellen

Mannix
TV • 1967

The Mod Squad
TV • 1968

Kojak
TV • 1973
Foster

Medical Center
TV • 1969

Hogan's Heroes
TV • 1965
Sergeant Krebs

Gunsmoke
TV • 1955
Purlie Loftus

Perry Mason
TV • 1957
Darrel Reed

Cagney & Lacey
TV • 1982
Dan Cobbin

Electra Woman and Dyna Girl
TV • 1976
Professor Frank Heflin

Combat!
TV • 1962
Pfc. Cooper

Dallas
TV • 1978
Senator Orloff

Cannon
TV • 1971

Lassie
TV • 1954

JAG
TV • 1995
Mr. Platt

Eight Is Enough
TV • 1977

California Fever
TV • 1979

Man with a Camera
TV • 1958

The Hogan Family
TV • 1986

Saints and Sinners
TV • 1962
Frank Donelli

Hunter
TV • 1984
Jerry Walsh

The Fall Guy
TV • 1981

Leave It to Beaver
TV • 1957
Water Dept. Worker

Run, Buddy, Run
TV • 1966

Everglades
TV • 1961

Philip Marlowe
TV • 1959

The Lawless Years
TV • 1959

Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse
TV • 1958

McMillan & Wife
TV • 1971
Randy Baine

To Rome with Love
TV • 1969

Vega$
TV • 1978

Switch
TV • 1975
Barney

Hennesey
TV • 1959
Seaman Herman Pulaski

The All-New Super Friends Hour
TV • 1977

Young Dan'l Boone
TV • 1977

Matt Houston
TV • 1982

The Thin Man
TV • 1957

Richard Diamond, Private Detective
TV • 1957
Ben Regan

The Big Valley
TV • 1965
Jeff Bowden

Enos
TV • 1980

The Adventures of Rin Tin Tin
TV • 1954

The Dakotas
TV • 1963

Ben Casey
TV • 1961

The Guns of Will Sonnett
TV • 1967

Fay
TV • 1975
Al Cassidy

The Manhunter
TV • 1974

The Cara Williams Show
TV • 1964

Devlin
TV • 1974

Honey West
TV • 1965
Ben Fancher

Rango
TV • 1967

Nero Wolfe
TV • 1981

Love, American Style
TV • 1969
Paul

Dr. Kildare
TV • 1961
Bernie (uncredited)

Panic!
TV • 1957

The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp
TV • 1955
Johnny Ringo

Stone
TV • 1980

Hunter
TV • 1977

What Really Happened to the Class of '65?
TV • 1977

Not for Hire
TV • 1959

Bronk
TV • 1975

Bodies of Evidence
TV • 1992

The Untouchables
TV • 1959
Barry Carlton

The Adventures of Rin Tin Tin
TV • 1954
Black Cloud

Murder, She Wrote
TV • 1984
Bart Klapper

Hunter
TV • 1984
Mike, Missing Persons

The Texan
TV • 1958
Ryan

Love, American Style
TV • 1969
Barry

Mr. Lucky
TV • 1959
Devil

The F.B.I.
TV • 1965
Worth

Combat!
TV • 1962
Pvt. Buford

The Jack Benny Program
TV • 1950
Man with iron bar

The Untouchables
TV • 1959
John Henry Whitmore

The Andy Griffith Show
TV • 1960
Hank

Gunsmoke
TV • 1955
Deke Franklin

Gunsmoke
TV • 1955
Berber

Gunsmoke
TV • 1955
Amos Potter

Gunsmoke
TV • 1955
Tom Hart

Adam-12
TV • 1968
Sgt. John Hardwick

Temple Houston
TV • 1963
Carlton Owens

Adam-12
TV • 1968
Charley Baker

Love, American Style
TV • 1969
Bernie

Honey West
TV • 1965
Artie Dixon

Code Red
TV • 1981
Robert Melton

Dan August
TV • 1970
Benjamin Marsh

The Rifleman
TV • 1958
Duff

Kung Fu
TV • 1972
Sheriff Crossman

Mannix
TV • 1967
Travers

The A-Team
TV • 1983
Mickey Stern

The Rockford Files
TV • 1974
Roland Eddy

TV 101
TV • 1988
Ralphie

The Danny Thomas Hour
TV • 1967
Marshak

21 Jump Street
TV • 1987

The Mod Squad
TV • 1968
Parker

My Favorite Martian
TV • 1963
Detective Harris

Charlie's Angels
TV • 1976
P. J. Wilkes

Charlie's Angels
TV • 1976
Jake Barnett

Hunter
TV • 1984
Mike, Missing Persons (uncredited)

77 Sunset Strip
TV • 1958
Rene

Lawman
TV • 1958
Charley - Townsman

One Day at a Time
TV • 1975

Bonanza
TV • 1959
Teller

Owen Marshall: Counselor at Law
TV • 1971
Henry Grover

Super Friends
TV • 1973
Aquaman (voice)

The 20th Century Fox Hour
TV • 1955
Frank Fallom

The Streets of San Francisco
TV • 1972
Sgt. Dan Healy

Hill Street Blues
TV • 1981
Art Eastland

Mannix
TV • 1967
Lou Griswold

The Wonderful World of Disney
TV • 1954
Norman

The Mod Squad
TV • 1968
Russ Barry

Matt Houston
TV • 1982
Sheriff Tim Keeler

Barnaby Jones
TV • 1973
Timmer

The Rousters
TV • 1983
Jackson Cobb

Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman
TV • 1976
Coach Leroy Fedders