Norman Wisdom

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.

  • Title: Norman Wisdom
  • Popularity: 4.898
  • Known For: Acting
  • Birthday: 1915-02-04
  • Place of Birth: Marylebone, London, England
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  • Also Known As: Норман Уисдом
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Norman Wisdom Movies

  • 1960
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    The Bulldog Breed

    The Bulldog Breed

    5.6 1960 HD

    Norman Puckle, a well-meaning but clumsy grocer's assistant, can't seem to do anything right. After being rejected by Marlene, the love of his life,...

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  • 1968
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    The Night They Raided Minsky's

    The Night They Raided Minsky's

    5.6 1968 HD

    Rachel arrives in New York from her Amish community intent on becoming a dancer. Unfortunately Billy Minsky's Burlesque is hardly the place for her...

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  • 1969
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    What's Good for the Goose

    What's Good for the Goose

    6 1969 HD

    Timothy Bartlett (Norman Wisdom) is a middle-aged banker who is sent to a seaside resort for a banker's convention. He fears the meetings will be...

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  • 1958
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    The Square Peg

    The Square Peg

    6.3 1958 HD

    Norman Pitkin and Mr Grimsdale are council workmen mending the road outside an Army base when they come into conflict with the military. Shortly...

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  • 1963
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    A Stitch in Time

    A Stitch in Time

    7.4 1963 HD

    An accident in the butchers shop leads Norman Pitkin and Mr Grimsdale to the hospital where, after causing the normal ammount of chaos, Pitkin finds...

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  • 1953
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    Trouble in Store

    Trouble in Store

    6 1953 HD

    Norman is working in the stock room of a large London department store, but he has ambition (doesn't he always !!), he wants to be a window dresser...

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  • 1959
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    Follow a Star

    Follow a Star

    6.1 1959 HD

    Norman Truscott is a store worker who dreams of stardom. Vernon Carew is a singer whose star is fading. Vernon manages to get a recording of Norman...

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  • 1966
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    Press for Time

    Press for Time

    5.6 1966 HD

    Norman is quite happy selling newspapers outside Westminster station but his Grandfather (the Prime Minister) wants to get him "a more responsible...

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  • 1955
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    Man of the Moment

    Man of the Moment

    6.4 1955 HD

    Norman is a file clerk who accidentally becomes a British delegate to a diplomatic conference, befriends the queen of a remote island, and winds up a...

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  • 1956
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    Up in the World

    Up in the World

    6.3 1956 HD

    Norman is a window cleaner who has to clean a manor house with hundreds of windows. He is distracted by the son of the house who persuades him to go...

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  • 1957
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    Just My Luck

    Just My Luck

    6 1957 HD

    Norman works in a jewellers workshop and fantasises (in the nicest way) about meeting the window dresser across the road from his workshop. He wants...

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  • 1955
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    One Good Turn

    One Good Turn

    6.1 1955 HD

    Norman is the oldest orphan at Greenwood Children's Home and now acts as their caretaker. All the orphans are very happy and well cared for. The...

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  • 1965
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    The Early Bird

    The Early Bird

    7.6 1965 HD

    Norman Pitkin is the assistant helping to run a small, old fashioned dairy which is threatened by a larger, modern organisation. Pitkin does his best...

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  • 1962
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    On the Beat

    On the Beat

    7.7 1962 HD

    Norman Pitkin wants to be a policeman like his father was, but he fails the height test (amongst others). One day he gets out his father's old...

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  • 1962
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    The Girl on the Boat

    The Girl on the Boat

    5.6 1962 HD

    Norman Wisdom does to P.G. Wodehouse in Girl on the Boat what Jerry Lewis did to Gore Vidal in Visit to a Small Planet. The zany Wisdom, put in...

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  • 2010
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    Norman Wisdom: His Story

    Norman Wisdom: His Story

    6.5 2010 HD

    The life story of Sir Norman Wisdom, who went from street urchin to become one of the UK's most bankable and loved film stars of the 1950-60s. The...

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  • 2008
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    Norman Wisdom: Trouble On Tour

    Norman Wisdom: Trouble On Tour

    1 2008 HD

    Norman's not getting much help from his band or straight-laced man Tony Fayne. In fact, it's nothing but Trouble On Tour for Norman. The inspiration...

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  • 1955
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    As Long as They're Happy

    As Long as They're Happy

    8 1955 HD

    The suburban peace of the Bentley household is shattered when John Bentley is informed by his wife Stella that their two married daughters, Pat and...

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  • 1992
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    Double X: The Name of the Game

    Double X: The Name of the Game

    5 1992 HD

    Expert safecracker Arthur Clutten masterminds heists for a criminal syndicate he belongs to. But after witnessing the brutal methods of persuasion...

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  • 1997
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    An Audience with Bruce Forsyth

    An Audience with Bruce Forsyth

    1 1997 HD

    Bruce Forsyth entertains a VIP audience as he stars in a spectacular one-man show.

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  • 1985
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    The Golden Gong: The Story of Rank Films - British Cinema's Legendary Studio

    The Golden Gong: The Story of Rank Films - British Cinema's Legendary Studio

    6 1985 HD

    Documentary - After starting his career producing religious film shorts, J. Arthur Rank went on to become Britain's first and only movie mogul with...

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  • 1981
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    Going Gently

    Going Gently

    5 1981 HD

    Play about two elderly cancer patients suffering in hospital.

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  • 1960
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    There Was a Crooked Man

    There Was a Crooked Man

    6 1960 HD

    When a law-abiding demolition expert is duped by a gang of criminals into helping them he is caught and jailed. When he is released he goes straight...

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  • 1966
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    The Sandwich Man

    The Sandwich Man

    6.1 1966 HD

    A man with a sandwich-board (advert) wanders around London meeting many strange characters.

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  • 1967
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    Androcles and the Lion

    Androcles and the Lion

    1 1967 HD

    The story of Androcles, the simple-hearted Christian tailor whose friendship with a lion saves himself and his friends from martyrdom in the Roman...

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  • 2011
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    The Unforgettable Norman Wisdom

    The Unforgettable Norman Wisdom

    1 2011 HD

    Family and friends pay tribute to the funnyman, who was one of Britain's best-loved stars of stage, TV and film for more than 50 years - and also...

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  • 1998
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    Where on Earth Is Katy Manning?

    Where on Earth Is Katy Manning?

    9 1998 HD

    By her own admission, Katy Manning is ‘as blind as a bat’ and never knows where she’ll end up. When she suddenly arrived in the UK,...

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  • 1948
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    Date With a Dream

    Date With a Dream

    1 1948 HD

    Four war-time performers known for their concert parties, have a reunion. They decide they are still good together and form a successful nightclub...

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  • 2008
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    The Legend of Harrow Woods

    The Legend of Harrow Woods

    1.5 2008 HD

    With the aim of investigating the disappearance of horror novelist George Carney, a group of students, encouraged by Gary, enter the forest Harrow...

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  • 1977
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    To See Such Fun

    To See Such Fun

    1 1977 HD

    Compilation of classic British comedy moments

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  • 2008
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    The Secret Life of Norman Wisdom Aged 92¾

    The Secret Life of Norman Wisdom Aged 92¾

    1 2008 HD

    Norman Wisdom lives with his carer on the Isle of Man. But when she quits, his children are lost: should they force him to leave his beloved island?

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  • 1958
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    The Square Peg

    The Square Peg

    6.3 1958 HD

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  • 1966
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    Press for Time

    Press for Time

    5.6 1966 HD

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  • 1962
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    On the Beat

    On the Beat

    7.7 1962 HD

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  • 1959
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    Follow a Star

    Follow a Star

    6.1 1959 HD

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  • 1960
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    The Bulldog Breed

    The Bulldog Breed

    5.6 1960 HD

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  • 1963
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    A Stitch in Time

    A Stitch in Time

    7.4 1963 HD

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  • 1981
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    Bergerac

    Bergerac

    6.4 1981 HD

    Bergerac is a British television show set on Jersey. Produced by the BBC in association with the Seven Network, and first screened on BBC1, it stars...

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  • 1962
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    The Merv Griffin Show

    The Merv Griffin Show

    5.3 1962 HD

    The Merv Griffin Show is an American television talk show, starring Merv Griffin. The series ran from October 1, 1962 to March 29, 1963 on NBC,...

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  • 1955
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    This Is Your Life

    This Is Your Life

    6.4 1955 HD

    This is Your Life is a British biographical television documentary, based on the 1952 American show of the same name. It was hosted by Eamonn Andrews...

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  • 1996
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    Dalziel & Pascoe

    Dalziel & Pascoe

    6.3 1996 HD

    British crime drama based on the "Dalziel and Pascoe" series of books by Reginald Hill, set in the fictional Yorkshire town of Wetherton. The...

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  • 2003
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    Between The Sheets

    Between The Sheets

    5.3 2003 HD

    Between the Sheets is a 2003 British television mini-series. This carnal, comedic drama is based around the love life and sexual hangups of several...

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  • 1973
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    Nobody Is Norman Wisdom

    Nobody Is Norman Wisdom

    1 1973 HD

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  • 1970
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    Norman

    Norman

    1 1970 HD

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  • 2003
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    The Last Detective

    The Last Detective

    7.5 2003 HD

    "Dangerous" Davies always gets the cases no one else wants, and no one notices when he eventually succeeds. But his old-fashioned decency and dogged...

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  • 1973
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    Last of the Summer Wine

    Last of the Summer Wine

    7.1 1973 HD

    Unencumbered by wives, jobs or any other responsibilities, three senior citizens who've never really grown up explore their world in the Yorkshire...

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  • 1999
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    It's Only TV But I Like It

    It's Only TV But I Like It

    6 1999 HD

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  • 1974
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    Playhouse

    Playhouse

    7 1974 HD

    BBC2 Playhouse is a one hour UK anthology television series of one-off contemporary and classic dramas created by Sara Pia Anderson and produced by...

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  • 1996
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    Style Challenge

    Style Challenge

    1 1996 HD

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  • 1978
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    An Audience with...

    An Audience with...

    5.3 1978 HD

    An Audience with... is a British entertainment television show produced by London Weekend Television, in which a host, usually a singer or comedian,...

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  • 1986
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    Casualty

    Casualty

    5.9 1986 HD

    Drama series about the staff and patients at Holby City Hospital's emergency department, charting the ups and downs in their personal and...

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  • 1982
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    Wogan

    Wogan

    4.5 1982 HD

    Chat show hosted by Terry Wogan, featuring live studio interviews with famous and notable personalities.

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  • 1956
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    Tony Awards

    Tony Awards

    5 1956 HD

    The Antoinette Perry Award for Excellence in Theatre, more commonly known as a Tony Award, recognizes achievement in live Broadway theatre. The...

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  • 1974
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    A Little Bit Of Wisdom

    A Little Bit Of Wisdom

    1 1974 HD

    Incidents and mishaps propel Norman Wisdom into a series of extraordinary escapades in his final leading role on television.

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  • 1961
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    The Mike Douglas Show

    The Mike Douglas Show

    4.8 1961 HD

    The Mike Douglas Show is an American daytime television talk show hosted by Mike Douglas that originally aired only in the Cleveland area during much...

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  • 1973
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    Last of the Summer Wine

    Last of the Summer Wine

    7.1 1973 HD

    Unencumbered by wives, jobs or any other responsibilities, three senior citizens who've never really grown up explore their world in the Yorkshire...

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  • 1973
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    Last of the Summer Wine

    Last of the Summer Wine

    7.1 1973 HD

    Unencumbered by wives, jobs or any other responsibilities, three senior citizens who've never really grown up explore their world in the Yorkshire...

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