Norman Mark(I)
- Actor
For 40 years, Norman Mark was a seemingly ubiquitous presence on Chicago's airwaves and in its newspapers and bookstores.
To many Chicagoans, Mr. Mark may have been best known for his work for more than a decade as WMAQ-Ch. 5's entertainment reporter and film critic. But Mr. Mark also had worked for 13 years as a writer and TV critic at the Chicago Daily News, hosted radio shows on WIND-AM and WAIT-AM, wrote both fiction and nonfiction books, and contributed freelance articles to the Chicago Sun-Times.
Mr. Mark even did voice-over work for several nationally distributed TV documentaries and wrote and produced several documentaries of his own. Along the way, he racked up a shelf full of awards and honors, including a Chicago Emmy Award, a Peter Lisagor Award for exemplary arts and entertainment reporting, and three Pulitzer Prize nominations.
To many Chicagoans, Mr. Mark may have been best known for his work for more than a decade as WMAQ-Ch. 5's entertainment reporter and film critic. But Mr. Mark also had worked for 13 years as a writer and TV critic at the Chicago Daily News, hosted radio shows on WIND-AM and WAIT-AM, wrote both fiction and nonfiction books, and contributed freelance articles to the Chicago Sun-Times.
Mr. Mark even did voice-over work for several nationally distributed TV documentaries and wrote and produced several documentaries of his own. Along the way, he racked up a shelf full of awards and honors, including a Chicago Emmy Award, a Peter Lisagor Award for exemplary arts and entertainment reporting, and three Pulitzer Prize nominations.
