Wendt and Ratzenberger respectively played Norm Peterson and Cliff Clavin on Cheers, which aired from 1982 to 1993 Alexis Jones is a writer-reporter at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since ...

Dr. Norman (Norm) Peter Peterson, 83, passed away Saturday, April 26, following a brief illness. Born in 1941 in Wakefield, Michigan, Norm graduated as Salutatorian from Wakefield High School in 1958.

There are fewer entrances more iconic, welcoming and well-known than when Norm Peterson entered his beloved watering hole in the popular 1980s sitcom, Cheers. And it’s precisely this feeling of ...