Norman Matlock

Norman Matlock was born on Aug 08, 1925 in USA. Norman Matlock's big-screen debut came with Across 110th Street directed by Barry Shear in 1972, strarring Numbers Leader. Norman Matlock is known for The Long Walk Home directed by Richard Pearce, Sissy Spacek stars as Miriam Thompson and Whoopi Goldberg as Odessa Cotter. The upcoming new movie Norman Matlock plays is Night Falls on Manhattan which will be released on May 16, 1997.

He chatters a bit then looks at Robert De Niro and says "Bye killer", perhaps his most memorable cinematic quote while playing Charlie T in Taxi Driver (1976). But Matlock was a veteran with a distinguished career before and after the famous movie. Police commissioners, preachers, detectives and judges are among the characters he played through the years. Among the directors he worked with, there's impressive names like Martin Scorsese, Sidney Lumet, John Landis, Spike Lee, Ivan Reitman and Daniel Petrie. One of the finest black actors of his generation, with a fine voice and incredible presence, Matlock appeared in different kinds of projects ranging from comedies such as Les Blues Brothers (1980) and S.O.S fantômes (1984) to dramas like La liberté au bout du chemin (1990) and Dans l'ombre de Manhattan (1996) His association with Spike Lee provided back-to-back experiences in Crooklyn (1994) and Clockers (1995), which was produced by Scorsese, who directed him in Taxi Driver some years before. He died at the age 90 in 2015, leaving behind a limited but outstanding body of work.