He was 76."I spoke to his family yesterday and just told them how much I liked him and, you know, choked up a little bit," Grammer, who went on to star in the spinoff series Frasier, said.Grammar also recalled how "hysterical" Wendt was as Norm on Cheers,

Wendt famously portrayed Norman Peterson, better known as just “Norm,” on the iconic ’80s/’90s sitcom Cheers.

George Wendt, an actor with an Everyman charm who played the affable, beer-loving barfly Norm on the hit 1980s TV comedy “Cheers” and later crafted a stage career that took him to Broadway in “Art,” “...