Movies List
TV Show List
Norman Wisdom: His Story

as Himself : Archive footage

2010
Between the Sheets

as Maurice Hardy

2003
Going Gently

as Bernard Flood

1981
The Night They Raided Minsky's

as Chick Williams

1968
The Early Bird

as Norman Pitkin

1965
A Stitch in Time

as Norman Pitkin

1963
On the Beat

as Norman Pitkin

1963
The Bulldog Breed

as Norman

1960
Follow a Star

as Norman Truscott

1959
The Square Peg

as Norman Pitkin / General Schreiber

1958
Up in the World

as Norman

1956
Man of the Moment

as Norman

1955
Trouble in Store

as Norman

1953
Norman Wisdom Norman Wisdom

Birthday

1915-02-04

Place of Birth

Marylebone, London, England

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.
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