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

Known For

Birth Location Marylebone, London, England
Born 1915-02-04
Died 2010-10-04

Movies

The Unforgettable Norman Wisdom as Himself (archive footage)
2011
Norman Wisdom: His Story as Himself : Archive footage
2010
Double X: The Name of the Game as Arthur Clutton/Maurice Rigby
1992
Going Gently as Bernard Flood
1981
What's Good for the Goose as Timothy Bartlett
1969
The Night They Raided Minsky's as Chick Williams
1968
Androcles and the Lion as Androcles
1967
The Sandwich Man as Boxing Vicar
1966
Press for Time as Norman Sheilds
1966
The Early Bird as Norman Pitkin
1965
A Stitch in Time as Norman Pitkin
1963
On the Beat as Norman Pitkin
1962
The Girl on the Boat as Sam Marlowe
1962
The Bulldog Breed as Norman
1960
There Was a Crooked Man as Davy Cooper
1960
Follow a Star as Norman Truscott
1959
The Square Peg as Norman Pitkin / General Schreiber
1958
Just My Luck as Norman Hackett
1957
Up in the World as Norman
1956
1955
One Good Turn as Norman
1955
Man of the Moment as Norman
1955
Trouble in Store as Norman
1953
Date With a Dream as Shadow Boxer
1948

Movies

Press for Time Screenplay
1966
1963
On the Beat Screenplay
1962
The Bulldog Breed Screenplay
1960
Follow a Star Screenplay
1959
The Square Peg Screenplay
1958