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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 Freedo
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Norman Wisdom
English actor, comedian and singer (1915–2010)
Sir Norman Joseph Wisdom,[1]OBE[2] (4 February 1915 – 4 October 2010) was an English actor, comedian, musician and singer, best known for a series of comedy films produced between 1953 and 1966 featuring a hapless character called Norman Pitkin.[3] He was awarded the 1953 BAFTA Award for Most Promising Newcomer to Leading Film Roles following the release of Trouble in Store, his first film in a lead role.
Wisdom gained celebrity status in lands as far apart as South America, Iran and many Eastern Bloc countries, particularly in Albania where his films were the only ones with Western actors permitted to be shown by dictator Enver Hoxha.[4]Charlie Chaplin once referred to Wisdom as his "favourite clown".[5]
Wisdom later forged a career on Broadway in New York City alongside stars such as Mandy Patinkin, 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. He toured Austr
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The dominant clown of British post-war cinema, Norman Wisdom brought his comic character, the Gump, developed through stage and television, to the cinema with immediate success in Trouble in Store (d. John Paddy Carstairs, 1953) for which he won a BAFTA as Most Promising Newcomer.
His little man against the world was portrayed with robust, physical slapstick in a series of films produced by the Rank Organisation peaking commercially with A Stitch in Time (d. Robert Asher, 1963).
He made two films independently in order to extend his range, one of which, There Was a Crooked Man (d. Stuart Burge, 1960) is amongst his finest, but the cinema public craved only the Gump.
Wisdom's popularity extended well beyond Britain - reaching the countries and Iran. However, it was his musical-comedy debut on that bought him to the attention of where he made The Night They Raided Minsky's (US, d. William Friedkin, 1968).
In 1981 Wisdom made Going Gently (BBC, d. Stephen Frears) for television, a non-comic role as a dying cancer patient.
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