Career

Tommy Norden is best known for his years playing Bud Ricks, the red-haired, younger brother of Sandy Ricks (Luke Halpin

Luke Halpin

Luke Halpin is an American actor. Beginning a prolific career as a child actor at the age of eight, Halpin is perhaps best known for his role as Sandy Ricks in the feature films Flipper and Flipper's New Adventure, as well as for reprising his role for the television series adaptation, also...

), on the television series Flipper

Flipper (1964 TV series)

Flipper, from Ivan Tors Films in association with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Television, is an American television program first broadcast on NBC from September 19, 1964, until April 15, 1967. Flipper, a bottlenose dolphin, is the companion animal of Porter Ricks, Chief Warden at fictional Coral Key Park...

, starring Brian Kelly

Brian Kelly (actor)

Brian Kelly was an American actor best known for his role as Porter Ricks, the widowed father of two sons on the NBC television series Flipper, and as Scott Ross in the ABC advernture series Straightaway, with co-star John Ashley.-Early years:Born in Detroit, Michigan, Kelly was the son of former...

 and Andy Devine

Andy Devine

Andrew Vabre "Andy" Devine was an American character actor and comic cowboy sidekick known for his distinctive raspy voice.-Early life:...

.

Other performances include a minor role in the film Five Miles to Midnight

Five Miles to Midnight

Five Miles to Midnight is a 1962 French-Italian-American drama film directed by Anatole Litvak...

(1962), as well as roles on the TV series Naked City

Naked City (TV series)

Naked City is a police drama series which aired from 1958 to 1963 on the ABC television network. It was inspired by the 1948 motion picture of the same name, and mimics its dramatic "semi-documentary" format....

(1961), Search for Tomorrow

Search for Tomorrow

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(1971–1973), where he played Dr. Gary Walton and The Secrets of Isis. Norden left acting in order to pursue the family business.

Tommy Norden also appeared in a Stove Top Stuffing commercial sometime in the 1970s or 1980s - it was the commercial with the young man working under a car (possibly a Ford Mustang). The tagline on the commercial was, "Stove Top Stuffing, I'm staying!".

Norden presently owns an executive recruiting company in New York City, and appeared at Miami Seaquarium's 40th anniversary celebration of Flipper.