Actor Zack Norman dies aged 83 after glistening career working with Robin Williams and Fran Drescher

Romancing The Stone and Cadillac Man actor Zack Norman has died aged 83.

The legendary Hollywood star, who also had guest appearances in The A-Team, Baywatch, and The Nanny, amongst other TV series, passed away on Sunday, April 28, his son-in-law Jeff Briller confirmed this evening.

Speaking to Deadline, Jeff confirmed Zack died of natural causes. He'd kicked off his long career in show business in the 1960s, working as a comedian performing in the Playboy Clubs, the Flamingo and Copacabana with the Temptations. Zack broke into television back in 1969, performing standup on The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson.

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He had a small role in Milos Forman's Ragtime in 1981, starring in several flicks after the 70s. He was later cast as Cousin Ira in Robert Zemeckis' Romancing the Stone in '84. Norman later starred in Robert Downey Sr.'s 1986 comedy, America.

Zack co-starred in the 1990 film Cadillac Man alongside Robin Williams, Tim Robbins and Fran Drescher. He reunited with Drescher in The Nanny as her character's Uncle Jack in three episodes from 1993 to 1995. He and appeared in the two-part Judgement Day episodes of The A-Team in 1985 and was also in an episode of Baywatch in 1993.

In 2001, he appeared in Festival in Cannes, later going on to Hollywood Dreams in 2006 and Ovation in 2015. He'd also done more than 20 stage plays throughout his career, most of those under his real birth name, Howard Zuker, born May 27, 1940.

Alongside his glistening and long-standing entertainment career, Norman was also a lover of all-things art, collecting some extremely pricey pieces. He bought five creations by Jean-Michel Basquiat, whose Untitled sold for £87.9million ($110.5 million) in 2017.

Sold at Sotheby's New York in May 2017, it wasn't the only big purchase of Zack's. He bought Hannibal from Basquiat in the artist's studio for around £2,500 ($3,200) back in 1982, with it later selling at Sotheby's London for £10.6 million ($13.3million) in 2016.

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