Norman Wisdom

Personal Info

Known For:
Acting

Birthday:
February 4, 1915

Place of Birth:
Marylebone, London, England

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Norman Wisdom

Biography

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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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Known For

Filmography

Year TV Show Role
2003 Between The Sheets Maurice Hardy
2003 The Last Detective Lofty Brock
1999 It's Only TV But I Like It Self
1996 Dalziel & Pascoe
1996 Style Challenge
1986 Casualty Mr. Cole
1982 Wogan Self
1981 Bergerac Vincent
1978 An Audience with... Self
1974 Playhouse
1974 A Little Bit Of Wisdom Norman
1973 Nobody Is Norman Wisdom
1973 Last of the Summer Wine Man Carrying Gnome (uncredited)
1973 Last of the Summer Wine Billy Ingleton
1970 Norman
1962 The Merv Griffin Show Self
1961 The Mike Douglas Show Self
1956 Tony Awards Self - Nominee / Performer
1955 This Is Your Life
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