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Norma Crane

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Norma Crane

Born November 10, 1928 in New York City, New York, U.SDied September 28, 197312 films

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Norma Crane (November 10, 1928 — September 28, 1973) was an actress of stage, film and television. Among her best known roles was that of Golde in the 1971 film adaptation of Fiddler on the Roof. She also starred in They Call Me MISTER Tibbs! and Penelope. Crane was born in New York City but raised in El Paso, Texas.

Born as Norma Anna Bella Zuckerman, she was a member of Elia Kazan's Actors Studio and debuted on Broadway in Arthur Miller's play The Crucible.

Throughout the 1950s, she appeared on a variety of live television dramas, first gaining recognition in a televised adaptation of George Orwell's 1984. Crane guest-starred in a 1959 episode of the TV series Have Gun – Will Travel as Eileen Tuttle ("Episode in Laredo").

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Fiddler on the Roof posterFirst watchFiddler on the Roof19717.7as GoldeIn a pre-revolutionary Russia, a poor Jewish milkman struggles with the challenges of a changing world as his daughters fall in love and antisemitism grows.View film

Essential films

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Tea and Sympathy poster7.0Tea and Sympathy1956They Call Me Mister Tibbs! poster5.9They Call Me Mister Tibbs!1970

Filmography

12 films as actor
  1. 1974Double SolitaireSylvia
  2. 1971Fiddler on the RoofGolde
  3. 1970They Call Me Mister Tibbs!Marge Garfield
  4. 1970The Movie MurdererEllen Farrington
  5. 1969Night GalleryGretchen
  6. 1969Shadow GamePatti
  7. 1968The Sweet RideMrs. Cartwright
  8. 1966PenelopeMildred Halliday
  9. 1961All in a Night's WorkMarge Coombs
  10. 1960The Snows of Kilimanjaro
  11. 1956Tea and SympathyEllie Martin
  12. 19531984Julia