Michael Norell

Michael Norell
Born	Michael Alden Norell October 4, 1937 (1937-10-04) (age 74) Wallace Idaho USA
Years active	1973–present

Michael Alden Norell (October 4, 1937 Wallace, Idaho) is an American screenwriter/actor, and Executive Producer that starred as Captain Henry "Hank" Stanley in the Jack Webb produced television series Emergency! from 1973 to 1978.

Norell was born in Wallace, Idaho. His family moved to follow his father who was in the Army, and who ultimately retired with the rank of Brigadier General. His father was sent to Korea during the war. The family lived in Tokyo, Japan. He returned to the States after the war, and attended Falls Church High School in Virginia, where he acted in several school plays. He attended college at Washington and Lee University, where he majored in Journalism.

After graduating college, he entered the Army, where he spent the next five years, leaving with the rank of Captain. After his stint in the Army, he went to work for the Richmond Times-Dispatch in Richmond, Virginia.

He went to New York City not too long after returning to civilian life, and worked at acting full-time. Six months later, he arrived in Hollywood.

After six months in Hollywood he won the role of Captain Henry "Hank" Stanley, taking over the role of station Captain from John Smith, who had taken the role from real life LACoFD Captain Dick Hammer.

Tall, and thin, Norell was not an impressive silhouette on camera, but his unmistakable deep, measured voice compensated for his profile.

After Emergency! ended, he turned to screenwriting, drawing from his experience writing scripts for Emergency!, he wrote for such shows as The Love Boat, The Love Boat: The Next Wave, Nash Bridges, and The Magnificent Seven among others, his screenwriting credits also include several made-for-tv movies, such as, Doomsday Rock, Three on A Date, The Covergirl and the Cop, Pals, Barnum, Christmas Comes to Willow Creek, and The Incident, for which he was nominated for, but lost an Emmy, he also created, and was Executive Producer for the short-lived Love Boat clone Aloha Paradise.

See also

• List of Emergency! characters

External links

• Michael Norell at the Internet Movie Database

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Name	Norell, Michael
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Date of birth	October 4, 1937
Place of birth	Wallace Idaho USA
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