Audree Norman Deaf actress dies

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Audree Norman

Audree Norton, a deaf actress whose fight to be cast on a television show in the late 1970s effectively ended her career in the medium but greatly helped the careers of deaf actors who followed her, died on April 22 at her home in Fremont, Calif. She was 88.

Her death was announced by her alma mater, Gallaudet University, in Washington. At her death, Ms. Norton was an emeritus professor at Ohlone College in Fremont, where she taught English, psychology and drama.

Ms. Norton was a founding member, in 1967, of the National Theater of the Deaf. The company’s formation was a watershed moment in the employment of deaf actors, who had enjoyed steady work in the silent-film era but had been marginalized with the coming of talkies.
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Sigh, another member of the early NTD gone. :(

I enjoyed watching her theater performance when I was teenager in CT, and I remember her role on Mannix. A fine actress whom we should have seen more of.
 
Agree Reba. I think I remember seeing her in many of the NTD shows/skits that were aired on the Gallaudet 'channel' when I was there. Might have caught her in some of her television work (I don't remember Mannix...).

Sad :(
 
DeafDucky said:
Agree Reba. I think I remember seeing her in many of the NTD shows/skits that were aired on the Gallaudet 'channel' when I was there. Might have caught her in some of her television work (I don't remember Mannix...).

Sad :(
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I was blessed to see the NTD perform live, and met some of them later at a CODA's house (she was my sign teacher). The original "headquarters" for NTD were in Waterford, CT, where I lived.

Mannix was one of my regular favorite shows back then. :lol:
 
Reba said:
I was blessed to see the NTD perform live, and met some of them later at a CODA's house (she was my sign teacher). The original "headquarters" for NTD were in Waterford, CT, where I lived.

Mannix was one of my regular favorite shows back then. :lol:
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Oohh you lucky duck! :lol: That's awesome!
 
Rest In Peace, Audree Norton. I don't remember her back then. Her history will always be in the Deaf Culture. :(
 
im disppointed in myself that i have not heard of this one but i m pretty sure. I have seen it shrotly. RIP!
 
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