Zack Norman

Zack Norman (born Howard Jerrold Zuker; May 27, 1940) is an American actor, comedian, film producer and art collector. Norman is best known for his acting role as the sidekick of Danny DeVito's character in 20th Century Fox's Romancing the Stone (1984). As an art collector, he sold a Jean-Michel Basquiat piece for a record-breaking $110.5 million in 2017. Legit theatre and stand-up comedy Born in Boston in 1940, and raised in nearby Revere, by the age of 25 Norman was on the board of directors of a Massachusetts bank. Norman began performing as a stand-up comedian in strip joints and nightclubs while producing his first Off-Broadway play, the New York premiere of John Arden's Live Like Pigs, which opened on June 7, 1965. In 1966 he left for Europe to work the U.S. Army base circuit operating out of Frankfurt, Germany, playing army clubs throughout Western Europe. On June 7, 1967, Norman opened at the Playboy Club in London, England, where Variety wrote he was "hysterical... one of the funniest guys ever to cross these shores". Soon he was appearing in every Playboy Club on their 18-venue circuit, as well as appearing in hotels and nightclubs such as The Flamingo in Las Vegas and New York's Copacabana with the Temptations. Norman made his television debut on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson on April 28, 1969. As a stage actor, he starred in more than 20 plays. His performance in the title role of Bertolt Brecht's The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui at the Stamford Center for the Arts in Connecticut (1980) was locally acclaimed. Motion pictures