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person_profile-Norman Wisdom

Norman Wisdom Died at age: 95

Actor | Producer

Fullname:

Norman Wisdom

Date of Birth:

Feb 04, 1915

Country of birth:

England

Died:

Oct 04, 2010

Biography of

Norman Wisdom

    ​From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.  

    Sir Norman Joseph Wisdom,  OBE  (4 February 1915 – 4 October 2010) was an English actor, comedian and singer-songwriter best known for a series of comedy films produced between 1953 and 1966 featuring his hapless onscreen character Norman Pitkin. These films initially made more money than the James Bond film series,  and secured Wisdom a celebrity status in lands as far apart as South America, Iran and many Eastern Bloc countries, particularly in Albania where his films were permitted by Enver Hoxha – Wisdom was the only Western actor to enjoy this privilege.  Charlie Chaplin famously referred to Wisdom as his "favourite clown". 

    Wisdom later forged a career on Broadway and as a television actor, winning critical acclaim for his dramatic role of a dying cancer patient in the television play Going Gently in 1981. It was broadcast on 5 June that year. He toured Australia and South Africa.  After the 1986 Chernobyl disaster, a hospice was named in his honour.  In 1995 he was given the Freedom of the City of London and of Tirana.  The same year he received an OBE.  Wisdom was knighted in 2000 and spent much of his later life on the Isle of Man. Some of his later appearances included roles in Last of the Summer Wine and Coronation Street,  and he retired from acting at the age of 90 after his health declined.

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Filmography of

Norman Wisdom

Found 28 Movies in total

... 2008

666: Salem Calling

Winston ( Actor )

... 2008

... 2008

... 1998

... 1997

Double X: The Name of the Game

Arthur Clutton/Maurice Rigby ( Actor )

... 1992

Going Gently

Bernard Flood ( Actor )

... 1981

... 1977

What's Good for the Goose

Timothy Bartlett ( Actor )

... 1969

The Night They Raided Minsky's

Chick Williams ( Actor )

... 1968

Androcles and the Lion

Androcles ( Actor )

... 1967

The Sandwich Man

Boxing Vicar ( Actor )

... 1966

Press for Time

Norman Sheilds ( Actor )

Screenplay

... 1966

The Early Bird

Norman Pitkin ( Actor )

... 1965

A Stitch in Time

Norman Pitkin ( Actor )

Writer

... 1963

On the Beat

Norman Pitkin ( Actor )

Screenplay

... 1962

The Girl on the Boat

Sam Marlowe ( Actor )

... 1962

The Bulldog Breed

Norman ( Actor )

Screenplay

... 1960

There Was a Crooked Man

Davy Cooper ( Actor )

... 1960

Follow a Star

Norman Truscott ( Actor )

Screenplay

... 1959

The Square Peg

Norman Pitkin / General Schreiber ( Actor )

Screenplay

... 1958

Just My Luck

Norman Hackett ( Actor )

... 1957

Up in the World

Norman ( Actor )

... 1956

... 1955

One Good Turn

Norman ( Actor )

... 1955

Man of the Moment

Norman ( Actor )

... 1955

Trouble in Store

Norman ( Actor )

... 1953

Date With a Dream

Shadow Boxer ( Actor )

... 1948