Personal Info
Norman Abbott
Directing
Biography
Norman Abbott (July 11, 1922 – July 9, 2016) was an American vaudevillian, actor, producer and television director.
Abbott was born in New York City, where his uncle, comedian Bud Abbott, and his mother raised him. His early experience in entertainment was as a vaudeville performer, including summers working the 'borscht circuit" in resorts in the Catskill Mountains of New York.
In the early 1940s, he and Pat Costello (brother of Lou Costello) worked as stand-ins for the better-known act during filming of Who Done It? (1942).[3]
During World War II, Abbott served as a member of the original…
Filmography
Movies
Empire of the Censors
as Self
Anything Goes
as Radio Announcer
Walking My Baby Back Home
as Doc
Keep 'Em Slugging
as Ape
Who Done It?
as 'Murder at Midnight' Organist
Rio Rita
as Hotel Laundry Boy (uncredited)
The Affairs of Martha
as Newsboy (uncredited)
Grand Central Murder
as Whistling Messenger (uncredited)
