Norman Wisdom

Personal Info

Known For Actor

Gender Male

Birthday 1915-02-04

Deathday 2010-10-04 (95 years old)

Place of Birth Marylebone, London, England

Also Known As Норман Уисдом

Norman Wisdom

Biography

​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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Norman Wisdom,  licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Known For

Actor

2011
The Unforgettable Norman Wisdom

as Himself (archive footage)

2010
Norman Wisdom: His Story

as Himself : Archive footage

2003
Between The Sheets

as Maurice Hardy

2003
The Last Detective

as Lofty Brock

1992
Double X: The Name of the Game

as Arthur Clutton/Maurice Rigby

1986
Casualty

as Mr. Cole

1982
Wogan

as Self

1981
Going Gently

as Bernard Flood

1981
Bergerac

as Vincent

1973
Last of the Summer Wine

as Man Carrying Gnome (uncredited)

1973
Last of the Summer Wine

as Billy Ingleton

1970
1969
What's Good for the Goose

as Timothy Bartlett

1968
1967
1966
The Sandwich Man

as Boxing Vicar

1966
Press for Time

as Norman Sheilds

1965
The Early Bird

as Norman Pitkin

1963
A Stitch in Time

as Norman Pitkin

1962
On the Beat

as Norman Pitkin

1962
The Girl on the Boat

as Sam Marlowe

1960
1960
1959
Follow a Star

as Norman Truscott

1958
The Square Peg

as Norman Pitkin / General Schreiber

1957
Just My Luck

as Norman Hackett

1956
Up in the World

as Norman

1956
Tony Awards

as Self - Nominee / Performer

1955
One Good Turn

as Norman

1955
1953
1948
Date With a Dream

as Shadow Boxer

Writer

1966
Press for Time

as Screenplay

1963
1962
On the Beat

as Screenplay

1960
The Bulldog Breed

as Screenplay

1959
Follow a Star

as Screenplay

1958
The Square Peg

as Screenplay