Acting credits
43
Established
Large and steady acting portfolio.
Actor
Norman Wisdom
Acting
Career Snapshot
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Movies: 30Series: 13Crew credits: 6
TMDB ID: 76379
IMDb ID: nm0936295
Known for: Acting
Born: February 4, 1915
Died: October 4, 2010
Age: 95
Place of birth: Marylebone, London, England
Gender: Male
Adult content flag: No
Career span: 1948 - 2025
Years active: 78
Average TMDB rating: 6.7
Wikidata: Q349217
Also known as
Норман Уисдом
Other jobs
Screenplay (5)Writer (1)
Biography
Sir Norman Joseph Wisdom, OBE 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.
Movies
Movies
Movie credits linked with Norman Wisdom.
8.0
Innes Lloyd: The Producer
as Self (archive footage)
2025 Movie
The Unforgettable Norman Wisdom
as Himself (archive footage)
2011 Movie
6.5
Norman Wisdom: His Story
as Himself : Archive footage
2010 Movie
Norman Wisdom: Trouble On Tour
as Self
2008 Movie
2.1
The Legend of Harrow Woods
2008 Movie
9.0
Where on Earth Is Katy Manning?
1998 Movie
An Audience with Bruce Forsyth
1997 Movie
5.0
Double X: The Name of the Game
as Arthur Clutton/Maurice Rigby
1992 Movie
7.5
Going Gently
as Bernard Flood
1981 Movie
To See Such Fun
1977 Movie
5.3
What's Good for the Goose
as Timothy Bartlett
1969 Movie
5.5
The Night They Raided Minsky's
as Chick Williams
1968 Movie
Androcles and the Lion
as Androcles
1967 Movie
5.6
Press for Time
as Norman Shields / Emily Shields / Wilfred, the Prime Minister
1966 Movie
6.1
The Sandwich Man
as Boxing Vicar
1966 Movie
7.6
The Early Bird
as Norman Pitkin
1965 Movie
7.4
A Stitch in Time
as Norman Pitkin
1963 Movie
7.7
On the Beat
as Norman Pitkin / Giulio Napolitani
1962 Movie
5.6
The Girl on the Boat
as Sam Marlowe
1962 Movie
5.8
The Bulldog Breed
as Ordinary Seaman Norman Puckle
1960 Movie
6.1
There Was a Crooked Man
as Davy Cooper
1960 Movie
6.1
Follow a Star
as Norman Truscott
1959 Movie
6.5
The Square Peg
as Private Norman Pitkin / General Otto Schreiber
1958 Movie
6.0
Just My Luck
as Norman Hackett / Mr. Hackett
1957 Movie
Series
Series
Series credits linked with Norman Wisdom.
4.5
Between The Sheets
as Maurice Hardy • 6 eps
2003 Series
7.7
The Last Detective
as Lofty Brock • 1 eps
2003 Series
6.3
Dalziel & Pascoe
1 eps
1996 Series
6.2
Casualty
as Mr. Cole • 1 eps
1986 Series
4.5
Wogan
as Self • 1 eps
1982 Series
6.7
Bergerac
as Vincent • 1 eps
1981 Series
5.3
An Audience with...
as Self • 1 eps
1978 Series
A Little Bit Of Wisdom
as Norman • 20 eps
1974 Series
7.0
Playhouse
as Bernard Flood • 1 eps
1974 Series
7.1
Last of the Summer Wine
as Man Carrying Gnome (uncredited) • 1 eps
1973 Series
6.2
The Merv Griffin Show
as Self • 1 eps
1962 Series
5.4
The Mike Douglas Show
as Self • 1 eps
1961 Series
6.4
This Is Your Life
1955 Series