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(parish)">Bride</a>, Isle of Man</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Medium</th><td class="infobox-data category"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1129693374">.mw-parser-output .hlist dl,.mw-parser-output .hlist ol,.mw-parser-output .hlist ul{margin:0;padding:0}.mw-parser-output .hlist dd,.mw-parser-output .hlist dt,.mw-parser-output .hlist li{margin:0;display:inline}.mw-parser-output .hlist.inline,.mw-parser-output .hlist.inline dl,.mw-parser-output .hlist.inline ol,.mw-parser-output .hlist.inline ul,.mw-parser-output .hlist dl dl,.mw-parser-output .hlist dl ol,.mw-parser-output .hlist dl ul,.mw-parser-output .hlist ol dl,.mw-parser-output .hlist ol ol,.mw-parser-output .hlist ol ul,.mw-parser-output .hlist ul dl,.mw-parser-output .hlist ul ol,.mw-parser-output .hlist ul ul{display:inline}.mw-parser-output .hlist .mw-empty-li{display:none}.mw-parser-output .hlist dt::after{content:": "}.mw-parser-output .hlist dd::after,.mw-parser-output .hlist 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.hlist li dd:last-child::after,.mw-parser-output .hlist li dt:last-child::after,.mw-parser-output .hlist li li:last-child::after{content:")";font-weight:normal}.mw-parser-output .hlist ol{counter-reset:listitem}.mw-parser-output .hlist ol>li{counter-increment:listitem}.mw-parser-output .hlist ol>li::before{content:" "counter(listitem)"\a0 "}.mw-parser-output .hlist dd ol>li:first-child::before,.mw-parser-output .hlist dt ol>li:first-child::before,.mw-parser-output .hlist li ol>li:first-child::before{content:" ("counter(listitem)"\a0 "}</style><div class="hlist"><ul><li>Comedian</li><li>actor</li><li>singer</li></ul></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Years active</th><td class="infobox-data">1946–2008</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Spouse</th><td class="infobox-data"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1126788409">.mw-parser-output .plainlist ol,.mw-parser-output .plainlist 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style="display:inline-block;line-height:normal;margin-top:1px;white-space:normal;">Freda Simpson</div> <div class="marriage-line-margin2px"></div> <div style="display:inline-block;margin-bottom:1px;"></div>(<abbr title="married">m.</abbr> 1947; <abbr title="divorced">div.</abbr> 1969)</div> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Children</th><td class="infobox-data">3, including <a href="/wiki/Nicholas_Wisdom" title="Nicholas Wisdom">Nicholas Wisdom</a></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-subheader" style="font-weight:bold;">Military career</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="padding-right: 1em">Allegiance</th><td class="infobox-data"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/a/ae/Flag_of_the_United_Kingdom.svg/23px-Flag_of_the_United_Kingdom.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" 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href="/wiki/Royal_Corps_of_Signals" title="Royal Corps of Signals">Royal Corps of Signals</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="padding-right: 1em">Battles / wars</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Second_World_War" class="mw-redirect" title="Second World War">Second World War</a></td></tr><tr style="display:none"><td colspan="2"> </td></tr></tbody></table> Sir Norman Joseph Wisdom,<a href="#cite_note-freebmd-1">[1]</a> <a href="/wiki/Officer_of_the_Order_of_the_British_Empire" class="mw-redirect" title="Officer of the Order of the British Empire">OBE</a><a href="#cite_note-2">[2]</a> (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.<a href="#cite_note-GuardianObit-3">[3]</a> He was awarded the 1953 <a href="/wiki/BAFTA_Award_for_Most_Promising_Newcomer_to_Leading_Film_Roles" title="BAFTA Award for Most Promising Newcomer to Leading Film Roles">BAFTA Award for Most Promising Newcomer to Leading Film Roles</a> following the release of <a href="/wiki/Trouble_in_Store" title="Trouble in Store">Trouble in Store</a>, his first film in a lead role. Wisdom gained celebrity status in lands as far apart as South America, <a href="/wiki/Iran" title="Iran">Iran</a> and many <a href="/wiki/Eastern_Bloc" title="Eastern Bloc">Eastern Bloc</a> countries, particularly in <a href="/wiki/Albania" title="Albania">Albania</a> where his films were the only ones with Western actors permitted to be shown by dictator <a href="/wiki/Enver_Hoxha" title="Enver Hoxha">Enver Hoxha</a>.<a href="#cite_note-TelegraphObit-4">[4]</a> <a href="/wiki/Charlie_Chaplin" title="Charlie Chaplin">Charlie Chaplin</a> once referred to Wisdom as his "favourite clown".<a href="#cite_note-BBCFool-5">[5]</a> Wisdom later forged a career on <a href="/wiki/Broadway_theatre" title="Broadway theatre">Broadway</a> in New York City alongside stars such as <a href="/wiki/Mandy_Patinkin" title="Mandy Patinkin">Mandy Patinkin</a>, 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 Australia and South Africa.<a href="#cite_note-GuardianObit-3">[3]</a> After the 1986 <a href="/wiki/Chernobyl_disaster" title="Chernobyl disaster">Chernobyl disaster</a>, a hospice was named in his honour.<a href="#cite_note-TelegraphObit-4">[4]</a> In 1995, he was given the <a href="/wiki/Freedom_of_the_City" title="Freedom of the City">Freedom of the City</a> of London and of <a href="/wiki/Tirana" title="Tirana">Tirana</a>.<a href="#cite_note-TelegraphObit-4">[4]</a> The same year, he was appointed <a href="/wiki/Order_of_the_British_Empire" title="Order of the British Empire">OBE</a> and was knighted five years later.<a href="#cite_note-TelegraphObit-4">[4]</a> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Early_life">Early life</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Norman_Wisdom&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Early life">edit</a>]</div> Norman Joseph Wisdom was born in the <a href="/wiki/Marylebone" title="Marylebone">Marylebone</a> district of London.<a href="#cite_note-:0-6">[6]</a> His parents were Frederick, a <a href="/wiki/Chauffeur" title="Chauffeur">chauffeur</a>, and Maud Wisdom (née Targett), a <a href="/wiki/Dressmaker" title="Dressmaker">dressmaker</a>, who often worked for West End theatres and had made a dress for <a href="/wiki/Mary_of_Teck" title="Mary of Teck">Queen Mary</a>.<a href="#cite_note-7">[7]</a> The couple married in Marylebone on 15 July 1912. Wisdom had an elder brother, Frederick Thomas "Fred" Wisdom (13 December 1912 – 1 July 1971).[<a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed">citation needed</a>] The family lived at 91 Fernhead Road, <a href="/wiki/Maida_Vale" title="Maida Vale">Maida Vale</a>, London W9, where they slept in one room.<a href="#cite_note-MyTurn-8">[8]</a> He and his brother were brought up in extreme poverty and were frequently hit by their alcoholic father, who would pick them up and throw them across the room.<a href="#cite_note-Story-9">[9]</a><a href="#cite_note-TelegraphObit-4">[4]</a> After his parents' separation, Wisdom and his brother were "farmed out to paid guardians",<a href="#cite_note-TelegraphObit-4">[4]</a> but his father did not pay so they were both turned out. Having been kicked out of his home by his father he became homeless and slept rough in London. After unsuccessful fostering elsewhere he was generously taken in by a couple. Wisdom got work as an <a href="/wiki/Errand_boy" class="mw-redirect" title="Errand boy">errand boy</a> in a <a href="/wiki/Grocery_store" title="Grocery store">grocer's shop</a> despite initially not knowing how to ride a bicycle.<a href="#cite_note-Story-9">[9]</a> At age 13 he worked long shifts in a hotel. A fellow boy worker convinced him to walk to Cardiff and become a miner, but the boy’s family would not house him, after which he became a <a href="/wiki/Cabin_boy" title="Cabin boy">cabin boy</a> in the <a href="/wiki/British_Merchant_Navy" class="mw-redirect" title="British Merchant Navy">Merchant Navy</a>. He sailed to <a href="/wiki/Argentina" title="Argentina">Argentina</a>, learning to box on board. In Argentina he survived three rounds of boxing for prize money but was badly beaten and had to fight off some sexual advances by a fellow sailor. On his return to Cardiff he had no job and returned to London, where he was advised to join the British Army, which took band recruits from age 14. Though knowing no music he turned on the tears to the recruiting officer and was successful. <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Military_service">Military service</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Norman_Wisdom&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Military service">edit</a>]</div> In 1930, he was posted to <a href="/wiki/Lucknow" title="Lucknow">Lucknow</a>, in the <a href="/wiki/United_Provinces_of_British_India" class="mw-redirect" title="United Provinces of British India">United Provinces of British India</a>,<a href="#cite_note-TelegraphObit-4">[4]</a> as a band boy.<a href="#cite_note-10">[10]</a> He rode horses, became the <a href="/wiki/Flyweight" title="Flyweight">flyweight</a> boxing champion of the <a href="/wiki/British_Army" title="British Army">British Army</a> in India<a href="#cite_note-TelegraphObit-4">[4]</a> and taught himself to play the piano, trumpet, saxophone, flute, drums, bugle and clarinet.<a href="#cite_note-MyTurn-8">[8]</a> At the outbreak of the <a href="/wiki/World_War_II" title="World War II">Second World War</a>, Wisdom was sent to work at a communications centre in a command bunker in London, where he connected telephone calls from war leaders to the <a href="/wiki/Prime_Minister_of_the_United_Kingdom" title="Prime Minister of the United Kingdom">prime minister</a>. He met <a href="/wiki/Winston_Churchill" title="Winston Churchill">Winston Churchill</a> on several occasions when asked for updates on incoming calls.<a href="#cite_note-MyTurn-8">[8]</a> Wisdom then joined the <a href="/wiki/Royal_Corps_of_Signals" title="Royal Corps of Signals">Royal Corps of Signals</a>, and performed a similar military function at the unit headquarters in <a href="/wiki/Cheltenham" title="Cheltenham">Cheltenham</a>, <a href="/wiki/Gloucestershire" title="Gloucestershire">Gloucestershire</a>. Whilst performing a <a href="/wiki/Shadow_boxing" class="mw-redirect" title="Shadow boxing">shadow boxing</a> routine in an army gym, Wisdom discovered he had a talent for entertainment,<a href="#cite_note-11">[11]</a> and began to develop his skills as a musician and <a href="/wiki/Performance_art" title="Performance art">stage entertainer</a>.<a href="#cite_note-BBCFool-5">[5]</a> In 1940 aged 25, at a <a href="/wiki/NAAFI" class="mw-redirect" title="NAAFI">NAAFI</a> entertainment night, during a dance routine, Wisdom stepped down from his position in the <a href="/wiki/Orchestra_pit" title="Orchestra pit">orchestra pit</a>, and started shadow boxing. Hearing his colleagues and officers giggling, he broke into a duck waddle, followed by a series of comic facial expressions. He later described the reaction: "They were in hysterics. All the officers were falling about laughing."<a href="#cite_note-GuardWordsWis-12">[12]</a> Wisdom later said that was where he first patented his persona as "The Successful Failure".<a href="#cite_note-GuardWordsWis-12">[12]</a> Over the next few years, until he was demobilised in 1945, his routine included his characteristic singing and the trip-up-and-stumble. After Wisdom appeared at a charity concert at <a href="/wiki/Cheltenham_Town_Hall" title="Cheltenham Town Hall">Cheltenham Town Hall</a> on 31 August 1944,<a href="#cite_note-13">[13]</a> actor <a href="/wiki/Rex_Harrison" title="Rex Harrison">Rex Harrison</a> came backstage and urged him to become a professional entertainer.<a href="#cite_note-14">[14]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Comic_entertainer">Comic entertainer</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Norman_Wisdom&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Comic entertainer">edit</a>]</div> After being demobilised, Wisdom worked as a <a href="/wiki/Taxicabs_of_the_United_Kingdom" class="mw-redirect" title="Taxicabs of the United Kingdom">private hire car driver</a>. Having improved his diction in the army, he also took a job as a night <a href="/wiki/Switchboard_operator" title="Switchboard operator">telephone operator</a>.<a href="#cite_note-MyTurn-8">[8]</a> Wisdom made his debut as a professional entertainer at the age of 31, still calling himself "The Successful Failure". In the anonymity of small suburban music halls he built an act out of his shyness, his ability to fall and his multi-instrumental music skills and singing talent. The theatre band constantly changed key and he could never keep up until he demonstrated his virtuosity by beating them at their own game. One outstanding review in August 1946 read: "An unusual and most versatile comedian, Norman Wisdom, contributes two remarkable turns. He is an accomplished pianist, a pleasing singer, a talented instrumentalist, a clever mimer, and withal, a true humourist.".<a href="#cite_note-15">[15]</a> His rise to the top was relatively fast. A very successful run at the London Casino in April 1948,<a href="#cite_note-16">[16]</a> led to a summer season in "Out of the Blue" in Scarborough. <a href="/wiki/Magic_(illusion)" title="Magic (illusion)">Magician</a> <a href="/wiki/David_Nixon_(magician)" title="David Nixon (magician)">David Nixon</a> was also part of the cast and the two worked together so well that they went on to continue the act on other variety stages starting at the London Casino in September 1948.<a href="#cite_note-17">[17]</a> Christmas 1948 saw him in the pantomime Robinson Crusoe at Birmingham's Alexandra Theatre.<a href="#cite_note-18">[18]</a> Wisdom had already adopted the costume that would remain his trademark: tweed <a href="/wiki/Flat_cap" title="Flat cap">flat cap</a> askew, with peak turned up; a suit at least two sizes too tight; a crumpled collar and a mangled tie. The character that went with this costume — known as the Gump — was to dominate Wisdom's film career. A <a href="/wiki/West_End_theatre" title="West End theatre">West End theatre</a> star within two years, he honed his act into a star turn mainly between theatres in London and <a href="/wiki/Brighton" title="Brighton">Brighton</a>:<a href="#cite_note-GuardWordsWis-12">[12]</a> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1244412712">.mw-parser-output .templatequote{overflow:hidden;margin:1em 0;padding:0 32px}.mw-parser-output .templatequotecite{line-height:1.5em;text-align:left;margin-top:0}@media(min-width:500px){.mw-parser-output .templatequotecite{padding-left:1.6em}}</style><blockquote class="templatequote">I spent virtually all of those years on the road. You could keep incredibly busy just performing in pantomimes and revues. There was a whole generation of performers who learned everything on the stage.</blockquote> Wisdom made his TV debut in 1948 and was soon commanding enormous audiences and had a small film role in <a href="/wiki/A_Date_with_a_Dream" title="A Date with a Dream">A Date with a Dream</a> released in the same year. <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Starring_film_roles_for_the_Rank_Organisation">Starring film roles for the Rank Organisation</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Norman_Wisdom&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Starring film roles for the Rank Organisation">edit</a>]</div> Wisdom made a series of low-budget star-vehicle comedies for the <a href="/wiki/Rank_Organisation" class="mw-redirect" title="Rank Organisation">Rank Organisation</a>, beginning with <a href="/wiki/Trouble_in_Store" title="Trouble in Store">Trouble in Store</a> (1953).<a href="#cite_note-19">[19]</a> This film earned him a <a href="/wiki/BAFTA_Award" class="mw-redirect" title="BAFTA Award">BAFTA Award</a> for Most Promising Newcomer to Film in 1954.<a href="#cite_note-20">[20]</a> It was the second most popular film at the British box-office in 1954 and exhibitors voted him the tenth biggest star at the British box office the same year.<a href="#cite_note-Wayne-21">[21]</a> His films' cheerful, unpretentious appeal make them the direct descendants of those made a generation earlier by <a href="/wiki/George_Formby" title="George Formby">George Formby</a>.<a href="#cite_note-22">[22]</a> Never highly thought of by the critics, they were very popular with domestic audiences and Wisdom's films were among Britain's biggest box-office successes of their day. They were also successful in some unlikely overseas markets, helping Rank stay afloat financially when their more expensive film projects were unsuccessful.[<a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed">citation needed</a>] The films usually involved the Gump character, usually called Norman, in a manual occupation in which he is barely competent and in a junior position to a straight man, often played by <a href="/wiki/Edward_Chapman_(actor)" title="Edward Chapman (actor)">Edward Chapman</a> (as Mr Grimsdale) or <a href="/wiki/Jerry_Desmonde" title="Jerry Desmonde">Jerry Desmonde</a>. They benefited from Wisdom's capacity for physical <a href="/wiki/Slapstick" title="Slapstick">slapstick</a> comedy and his skill at creating a sense of the character's helplessness. The series often contained a romantic subplot; the Gump's inevitable awkwardness with women is a characteristic shared with the earlier Formby vehicles. His innocent incompetence still made him endearing to the heroine. Wisdom's second film as star, <a href="/wiki/One_Good_Turn_(1955_film)" title="One Good Turn (1955 film)">One Good Turn</a> (1955), was the seventh most popular movie of 1955 in Britain.<a href="#cite_note-23">[23]</a> He made a cameo in <a href="/wiki/As_Long_as_They%27re_Happy" title="As Long as They're Happy">As Long as They're Happy</a> (1955), then returned in <a href="/wiki/Man_of_the_Moment_(1955_film)" title="Man of the Moment (1955 film)">Man of the Moment</a> (1955). He was the 6th most popular star of 1955.<a href="#cite_note-ReferenceA-24">[24]</a> Wisdom was a window cleaner in <a href="/wiki/Up_in_the_World" title="Up in the World">Up in the World</a> (1956) and worked in a jewellery store in <a href="/wiki/Just_My_Luck_(1957_film)" title="Just My Luck (1957 film)">Just My Luck</a> (1957). The box office receipts of these last few films had declined from previous Wisdom films but <a href="/wiki/The_Square_Peg" title="The Square Peg">The Square Peg</a> (1959), an army comedy, reversed the trend and was one of the year's biggest hits. The film was the 7th most popular movie at the British box office in 1959.<a href="#cite_note-25">[25]</a> Less successful was <a href="/wiki/Follow_a_Star" title="Follow a Star">Follow a Star</a> (1959). <a href="/wiki/There_Was_a_Crooked_Man_(1960_film)" title="There Was a Crooked Man (1960 film)">There Was a Crooked Man</a> (1960) was an attempt to change Wisdom's image away from Rank Organisation. <a href="/wiki/The_Bulldog_Breed" title="The Bulldog Breed">The Bulldog Breed</a> (1960) was more conventional. The film also starred a young <a href="/wiki/Michael_Caine" title="Michael Caine">Michael Caine</a> who later recalled he did not enjoy working with Wisdom because he "wasn't very nice to support-part actors".<a href="#cite_note-26">[26]</a> Wisdom remained the 10th biggest star at the British box office. Wisdom was in <a href="/wiki/The_Girl_on_the_Boat_(film)" title="The Girl on the Boat (film)">The Girl on the Boat</a> (1961) from a novel by <a href="/wiki/P._G._Wodehouse" title="P. G. Wodehouse">P. G. Wodehouse</a>, a second film away from the Rank formula. <a href="/wiki/On_the_Beat_(1962_film)" title="On the Beat (1962 film)">On the Beat</a> (1962) as a car cleaner and <a href="/wiki/A_Stitch_in_Time_(1963_film)" title="A Stitch in Time (1963 film)">A Stitch in Time</a> (1963), in which he was cast as an apprentice butcher, returned him to the regular format. <a href="/wiki/The_Early_Bird" title="The Early Bird">The Early Bird</a> (1965), his first colour film, had Wisdom as a milkman. After a cameo in <a href="/wiki/The_Sandwich_Man_(1966_film)" title="The Sandwich Man (1966 film)">The Sandwich Man</a> (1966), Wisdom starred in <a href="/wiki/Press_for_Time" title="Press for Time">Press for Time</a> (1966), the last film in this sequence of starring vehicles. Wisdom was still voted the 5th most popular star at the British box office.<a href="#cite_note-ReferenceB-27">[27]</a> Wisdom's stage performances often involved musical numbers, although he wrote only a few of them. He has seven songs attributed to him in the <a href="/wiki/ASCAP" class="mw-redirect" title="ASCAP">ASCAP</a> database, which are: "Beware", "Don't Laugh at Me ('cause I'm a Fool)", "Falling in Love", "Follow a Star", "I Love You", "Please Opportunity", and "Up in the World".<a href="#cite_note-28">[28]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Later_career">Later career</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Norman_Wisdom&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Later career">edit</a>]</div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Norman_Wisdom_2_(1965).jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f8/Norman_Wisdom_2_%281965%29.jpg/220px-Norman_Wisdom_2_%281965%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="293" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f8/Norman_Wisdom_2_%281965%29.jpg/330px-Norman_Wisdom_2_%281965%29.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f8/Norman_Wisdom_2_%281965%29.jpg/440px-Norman_Wisdom_2_%281965%29.jpg 2x" data-file-width="898" data-file-height="1197" /></a><figcaption>Norman Wisdom demonstrating a typical expression (1965)</figcaption></figure> In 1966, Wisdom spent a short period in the United States to star in the Broadway production of the <a href="/wiki/Jimmy_Van_Heusen" title="Jimmy Van Heusen">Jimmy Van Heusen</a> and <a href="/wiki/Sammy_Cahn" title="Sammy Cahn">Sammy Cahn</a> <a href="/wiki/Musical_comedy" class="mw-redirect" title="Musical comedy">musical comedy</a> Walking Happy based on the play <a href="/wiki/Hobson%27s_Choice_(play)" title="Hobson's Choice (play)">Hobson's Choice</a> by Harold Brighouse. His performance as Will Mosop was nominated for a <a href="/wiki/21st_Tony_Awards" title="21st Tony Awards">Tony Award</a>. This led to Wisdom's being cast in his first Hollywood film, <a href="/wiki/The_Night_They_Raided_Minsky%27s" title="The Night They Raided Minsky's">The Night They Raided Minsky's</a> (1968) and in the US Television musical of <a href="/wiki/George_Bernard_Shaw" title="George Bernard Shaw">George Bernard Shaw</a>'s Androcles and The Lion (1967) with songs by <a href="/wiki/Richard_Rogers" title="Richard Rogers">Richard Rogers</a> and co-starring <a href="/wiki/No%C3%ABl_Coward" title="Noël Coward">Noël Coward</a>. After a typical performance on <a href="/wiki/The_Ed_Sullivan_Show" title="The Ed Sullivan Show">The Ed Sullivan Show</a>,<a href="#cite_note-TelegraphObit-4">[4]</a> further US opportunities were denied him when he had to return to London after his second wife left him. His subsequent career was largely confined to television, and he toured the world with a successful cabaret act. He won critical acclaim in 1981 for his dramatic role of a dying cancer patient in the television play Going Gently. Wisdom was one of several actors initially considered for the role of Frank Spencer in <a href="/wiki/Some_Mothers_Do_%27Ave_%27Em" title="Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em">Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em</a>. However, he turned the role down and it eventually went to <a href="/wiki/Michael_Crawford" title="Michael Crawford">Michael Crawford</a>. The creator of the series <a href="/wiki/Raymond_Allen_(scriptwriter)" title="Raymond Allen (scriptwriter)">Raymond Allen</a> later stated "Norman Wisdom was offered the role but turned it down because he didn't find it funny".<a href="#cite_note-29">[29]</a> On 31 December 1976, Wisdom performed his theme song "Don't Laugh at Me ('cause I'm a Fool)" on <a href="/wiki/BBC1" class="mw-redirect" title="BBC1">BBC1</a>'s <a href="/wiki/A_Jubilee_of_Music" title="A Jubilee of Music">A Jubilee of Music</a>, celebrating British pop music for <a href="/wiki/Queen_Elizabeth_II" class="mw-redirect" title="Queen Elizabeth II">Queen Elizabeth II</a>'s impending <a href="/wiki/Silver_Jubilee" class="mw-redirect" title="Silver Jubilee">Silver Jubilee</a>.<a href="#cite_note-30">[30]</a> Wisdom had performed in front of the Queen at many Royal Command Performances, the first being in 1952.<a href="#cite_note-31">[31]</a> After touring South Africa, Zimbabwe and Australia with some success, his appearances in Britain became more infrequent. He spent much of the 1980s in seclusion on the Isle of Man.<a href="#cite_note-32">[32]</a> Wisdom's career revived in the 1990s, helped by the young comedian <a href="/wiki/Lee_Evans_(comedian)" title="Lee Evans (comedian)">Lee Evans</a>, whose act was often compared to Wisdom's work.<a href="#cite_note-telegraph-33">[33]</a> The high point of this new popularity was the <a href="/wiki/Knight_Bachelor" title="Knight Bachelor">knighthood</a> he was awarded, for services to entertainment, in the 2000 New Year's honours list.<a href="#cite_note-34">[34]</a> During the ceremony, once he had received his knighthood, he walked away and again performed his trademark trip, at which the Queen smiled and laughed.<a href="#cite_note-35">[35]</a> From 1995 until 2004 he appeared in the recurring role of Billy Ingleton in the long-running <a href="/wiki/BBC" title="BBC">BBC</a> comedy <a href="/wiki/Last_of_the_Summer_Wine" title="Last of the Summer Wine">Last of the Summer Wine</a>. In 1996, he received a Special Achievement Award from the <a href="/wiki/London_Film_Critics" class="mw-redirect" title="London Film Critics">London Film Critics</a>.<a href="#cite_note-36">[36]</a> Wisdom was a guest on a <a href="/wiki/This_Is_Your_Life_(British_TV_series)" title="This Is Your Life (British TV series)">This Is Your Life</a> special in 2000 for actor and director <a href="/wiki/Todd_Carty" title="Todd Carty">Todd Carty</a>. He appeared as a half-time guest at the England vs <a href="/wiki/Albania" title="Albania">Albania</a> 2002 World Cup qualifier at <a href="/wiki/St_James%27_Park" title="St James' Park">St James' Park</a>, <a href="/wiki/Newcastle_upon_Tyne" title="Newcastle upon Tyne">Newcastle upon Tyne</a>, and scored a penalty at the Leazes End.<a href="#cite_note-37">[37]</a> In 2002 Wisdom filmed a cameo role as a butler in a low-budget horror film. In 2004, he made an appearance on <a href="/wiki/Coronation_Street" title="Coronation Street">Coronation Street</a>, playing fitness fanatic pensioner Ernie Crabbe. In 2007 he came out of retirement to take a role in a short film called <a href="/wiki/Expresso_(film)" title="Expresso (film)">Expresso</a>.<a href="#cite_note-newfilm-bbc-38">[38]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Popularity_in_Albania">Popularity in Albania</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Norman_Wisdom&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Popularity in Albania">edit</a>]</div> Wisdom became a cultural icon in <a href="/wiki/Albania" title="Albania">Albania</a>, where he was one of the few Western actors whose films were allowed in the country under <a href="/wiki/Enver_Hoxha" title="Enver Hoxha">Enver Hoxha</a>. According to Hoxha's <a href="/wiki/Dialectical_materialism" title="Dialectical materialism">dialectical materialist</a> viewpoint, proletarian Norman's ultimately victorious struggles against capitalism, personified by Mr Grimsdale and the effete aristocratic characters played by Jerry Desmonde, were a Communist parable on the class war. He was known as Mr Pitkin after the character from his films. In 1995, he visited the post-<a href="/wiki/Joseph_Stalin" title="Joseph Stalin">Stalinist</a> country where, to his surprise, he was greeted by many appreciative fans, including the then President, <a href="/wiki/Sali_Berisha" title="Sali Berisha">Sali Berisha</a>. During this trip, Wisdom was filmed by <a href="/wiki/Newsnight" title="Newsnight">Newsnight</a> as he visited a children's project funded by ChildHope UK.<a href="#cite_note-39">[39]</a> On a visit in 2001, which coincided with the <a href="/wiki/England_national_football_team" title="England national football team">England football team</a> playing <a href="/wiki/Albania_national_football_team" title="Albania national football team">Albania</a> in the city of <a href="/wiki/Tirana" title="Tirana">Tirana</a>,<a href="#cite_note-40">[40]</a> his appearance at the training ground overshadowed that of <a href="/wiki/David_Beckham" title="David Beckham">David Beckham</a>. He appeared on the pitch before the start of the Albania v England match wearing a half-Albanian and half-English football shirt. He was well received by the crowd, especially when he performed one of his trademark trips on his way out to the centre circle.<a href="#cite_note-41">[41]</a> In 1995 Wisdom was made an honorary citizen of Tirana.<a href="#cite_note-42">[42]</a> In his book and TV series One Hit Wonderland, <a href="/wiki/Tony_Hawks" title="Tony Hawks">Tony Hawks</a> united with Wisdom and, along with <a href="/wiki/Tim_Rice" title="Tim Rice">Tim Rice</a>, released a single, "Big in Albania", in an attempt to enter the Albanian pop charts. It reached number 18 on the Top Albania Radio chart.<a href="#cite_note-43">[43]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Retirement">Retirement</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Norman_Wisdom&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Retirement">edit</a>]</div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Norman_Wisdom_Peel_IoM_2005_-CCR27366-.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/07/Norman_Wisdom_Peel_IoM_2005_-CCR27366-.jpg/220px-Norman_Wisdom_Peel_IoM_2005_-CCR27366-.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="284" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/07/Norman_Wisdom_Peel_IoM_2005_-CCR27366-.jpg/330px-Norman_Wisdom_Peel_IoM_2005_-CCR27366-.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/07/Norman_Wisdom_Peel_IoM_2005_-CCR27366-.jpg/440px-Norman_Wisdom_Peel_IoM_2005_-CCR27366-.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1732" data-file-height="2239" /></a><figcaption>Wisdom in <a href="/wiki/Peel,_Isle_of_Man" title="Peel, Isle of Man">Peel, Isle of Man</a>, in 2005</figcaption></figure> In October 2004, Wisdom announced he would retire from the entertainment industry on his 90th birthday (4 February 2005). He announced he intended to spend more time with his family, playing golf and driving around the Isle of Man, where he was living.<a href="#cite_note-BBC_retires-44">[44]</a> In 2007, Wisdom returned to acting in a short film directed by Kevin Powis, <a href="/wiki/Expresso_(film)" title="Expresso (film)">Expresso</a>. The film, which Wisdom later announced (reported BBC/ITV News) was to be officially his last film role, is set during one day in a coffee shop and was funded by the UK Film Council and ScreenWM. Shot in January, it premièred at the <a href="/wiki/Cannes_Film_Festival" title="Cannes Film Festival">Cannes Film Festival</a> on 27 May 2007. It was later adopted by the UK charity <a href="/wiki/Macmillan_Cancer_Support" title="Macmillan Cancer Support">Macmillan</a> and released on DVD in aid of the charity. In the film, Wisdom plays a vicar plagued by a fly in a café. Producer Nigel Martin Davey gave him only a visual role so that he would not have to remember any lines, but on the day, Wisdom was alert and had his performance changed to add more laughs.<a href="#cite_note-BBCEspres-45">[45]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Personal_life">Personal life</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Norman_Wisdom&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: Personal life">edit</a>]</div> Wisdom was married twice. His first wife was Doreen Brett, whom he married in 1941. By 1944 they had separated when Doreen gave birth to a son, Michael (born 1944), fathered by Albert Gerald Hardwick, a telephone engineer.[<a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed">citation needed</a>] The marriage was dissolved in 1946.[<a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed">citation needed</a>] He married his second wife, Freda Isobel Simpson, in 1947;<a href="#cite_note-TelegraphObit-4">[4]</a> they had two children: <a href="/wiki/Nicholas_Wisdom" title="Nicholas Wisdom">Nicholas</a> (born 1953, who later played <a href="/wiki/First-class_cricket" title="First-class cricket">first-class cricket</a> for <a href="/wiki/Sussex_County_Cricket_Club" title="Sussex County Cricket Club">Sussex</a>)<a href="#cite_note-46">[46]</a> and Jacqueline (born 1954).<a href="#cite_note-47">[47]</a> The couple divorced in 1969,<a href="#cite_note-TelegraphObit-4">[4]</a> with Wisdom granted full custody of the children.<a href="#cite_note-:0-6">[6]</a> Freda Wisdom died in <a href="/wiki/Brighton" title="Brighton">Brighton</a> in 1992.[<a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed">citation needed</a>] Popular in the Isle of Man, he lived for 27 years in a house in <a href="/wiki/Andreas,_Isle_of_Man" title="Andreas, Isle of Man">Andreas</a> named Ballalough (<a href="/wiki/Manx_language" title="Manx language">Manx</a> for "lake farm", also a humorous corruption of the English "belly laugh"). He supported various charities and charitable works, including orphanages in Albania.<a href="#cite_note-48">[48]</a> In 2005, Wisdom starred in a video for the <a href="/wiki/Manx_people" title="Manx people">Manx</a> girl group Twisted Angels, for their single "LA", in support of the local charity Project 21.<a href="#cite_note-49">[49]</a> During the 1960s, he was involved in a famous legal case (Wisdom v Chamberlain, 1968) in which he was pursued by the <a href="/wiki/Inland_Revenue" title="Inland Revenue">Inland Revenue</a> for tax on profits made from the sale of silver bullion he had bought when concerned about the further devaluation of <a href="/wiki/Pound_sterling" title="Pound sterling">sterling</a>. He contended that it was an investment, but the court held that it had been a trading venture and was duly chargeable to <a href="/wiki/Income_tax" title="Income tax">income tax</a>.<a href="#cite_note-50">[50]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Interests">Interests</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Norman_Wisdom&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: Interests">edit</a>]</div> Wisdom was a lifelong supporter and a former board member of football team <a href="/wiki/Brighton_%26_Hove_Albion_F.C." title="Brighton & Hove Albion F.C.">Brighton & Hove Albion</a>. He also liked <a href="/wiki/Everton_F.C." title="Everton F.C.">Everton</a> and <a href="/wiki/Newcastle_United_F.C." title="Newcastle United F.C.">Newcastle United</a>.<a href="#cite_note-51">[51]</a> He enjoyed <a href="/wiki/Golf" title="Golf">golf</a>,<a href="#cite_note-BBC_retires-44">[44]</a> and was a member of the <a href="/wiki/Grand_Order_of_Water_Rats" title="Grand Order of Water Rats">Grand Order of Water Rats</a>.<a href="#cite_note-52">[52]</a> He was an honorary member of the <a href="/wiki/Winkle_Club" title="Winkle Club">Winkle Club</a>, a charity in <a href="/wiki/Hastings" title="Hastings">Hastings</a>, <a href="/wiki/East_Sussex" title="East Sussex">East Sussex</a>.<a href="#cite_note-53">[53]</a> A lover of cars, his collection included a 1956 <a href="/wiki/Bentley_S1#Bentley_Continental" title="Bentley S1">Bentley S1 Continental R Type fastback</a>, which he first bought in 1961, and then again in the late 1980s.<a href="#cite_note-54">[54]</a> In 1969, he purchased, after the divorce from Freda Simpson, a <a href="/wiki/Shelby_Cobra_427" class="mw-redirect" title="Shelby Cobra 427">Shelby Cobra 427</a>, CSX3206, in New York, which he kept until 1986, when it was sold to another car enthusiast in Brighton, UK. Until his age and declining mental health meant he failed a <a href="/wiki/Department_of_Transport_(Isle_of_Man)" class="mw-redirect" title="Department of Transport (Isle of Man)">Department of Transport</a> fitness-to-drive test, he owned and drove a 1987 <a href="/wiki/Rolls-Royce_Silver_Spirit" title="Rolls-Royce Silver Spirit">Rolls-Royce Silver Spirit</a> and a <a href="/wiki/Jaguar_S-Type_(1963)" title="Jaguar S-Type (1963)">Jaguar S-Type</a>, which were sold in September 2005.[<a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed">citation needed</a>] In 1963, he bought a new motor yacht. The 94 feet (29 m) long hull and superstructure were built in Spain for £80,000, before being towed to <a href="/wiki/Shoreham-by-Sea" title="Shoreham-by-Sea">Shoreham-by-Sea</a>, <a href="/wiki/West_Sussex" title="West Sussex">West Sussex</a>, for fitting out. After three years of extensive works and sea trials, she was named M/Y Conquest and valued at £1.25 million by insurers. It was available for charter at £6,000 a month but Wisdom later sold it, saying that he was "no sailor".<a href="#cite_note-GuardWordsWis-12">[12]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Health_decline">Health decline</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Norman_Wisdom&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: Health decline">edit</a>]</div> In mid-2006, after he suffered an irregular heart rhythm, Wisdom was flown by helicopter to hospital in <a href="/wiki/Liverpool" title="Liverpool">Liverpool</a> and was fitted with a <a href="/wiki/Heart_pacemaker" class="mw-redirect" title="Heart pacemaker">heart pacemaker</a>.<a href="#cite_note-55">[55]</a> Wisdom resided in the Abbotswood <a href="/wiki/Nursing_home" title="Nursing home">nursing home</a> in <a href="/wiki/Ballasalla" title="Ballasalla">Ballasalla</a>, where he had been resident from 12 July 2007 to 4 October 2010.<a href="#cite_note-56">[56]</a> On the release of Expresso to DVD in the same month, BBC News confirmed that Wisdom lived in a care home, because of his suffering from <a href="/wiki/Multi-infarct_dementia" class="mw-redirect" title="Multi-infarct dementia">vascular dementia</a>.<a href="#cite_note-BBCEspres-45">[45]</a> It was also reported that he had granted his children <a href="/wiki/Power_of_attorney" title="Power of attorney">power of attorney</a> over his affairs and, having sold off his flat in <a href="/wiki/Epsom" title="Epsom">Epsom</a>, <a href="/wiki/Surrey" title="Surrey">Surrey</a>, they were now in the process of selling his Isle of Man home to raise money to fund his longer-term care.<a href="#cite_note-57">[57]</a> On 16 January 2008,<a href="#cite_note-58">[58]</a> <a href="/wiki/BBC2" class="mw-redirect" title="BBC2">BBC2</a> aired Wonderland: The Secret Life Of Norman Wisdom Aged 92 and 3/4.<a href="#cite_note-59">[59]</a> The documentary highlighted the dilemma of coping with an ageing parent. His family stated Wisdom's memory loss had become so severe he no longer recognised himself in his films. <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Death">Death</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Norman_Wisdom&action=edit&section=11" title="Edit section: Death">edit</a>]</div> In the six months prior to his death, Wisdom suffered a series of strokes, causing a decline in his physical and mental health. He died on 4 October 2010 at Abbotswood nursing home on the Isle of Man at the age of 95.<a href="#cite_note-BBC-60">[60]</a> His funeral took place on 22 October 2010 in <a href="/wiki/Douglas,_Isle_of_Man" title="Douglas, Isle of Man">Douglas, Isle of Man</a>, and all of the island were invited.<a href="#cite_note-61">[61]</a><a href="#cite_note-Funeral-62">[62]</a> His trademark cloth cap was placed on the coffin in the church.<a href="#cite_note-Funeral-62">[62]</a> The funeral was attended by a large number of showbusiness personalities and, at Wisdom's request, <a href="/wiki/Moira_Anderson" title="Moira Anderson">Moira Anderson</a> sang "Who Can I Turn To",<a href="#cite_note-Funeral-62">[62]</a> which was specially arranged for the occasion by <a href="/wiki/Gordon_Cree" title="Gordon Cree">Gordon Cree</a>.<a href="#cite_note-63">[63]</a> Wisdom's body was buried at Kirk Bride Churchyard, <a href="/wiki/Bride_(parish)" title="Bride (parish)">Bride</a>, Isle of Man. <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Tributes_and_other_references">Tributes and other references</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Norman_Wisdom&action=edit&section=12" title="Edit section: Tributes and other references">edit</a>]</div> <ul><li>In 2007, a Norman Wisdom-themed bar opened at the Sefton Hotel, <a href="/wiki/Douglas,_Isle_of_Man" title="Douglas, Isle of Man">Douglas</a>, called Sir Norman's. It has stills from his many films on the walls and TV screens playing some clips of his old films. The bronze statue of Wisdom, which used to be on a bench outside Douglas Town Hall, has been moved to the steps leading into the hotel bar on Harris Promenade.<a href="#cite_note-Funeral-62">[62]</a><a href="#cite_note-64">[64]</a></li> <li>Wisdom featured on the BBC Radio 4 series <a href="/wiki/Desert_Island_Discs" title="Desert Island Discs">Desert Island Discs</a> in August 2000. Of the eight songs he chose, four were performed by Wisdom himself (including his favourite, 'Don't Laugh at Me 'Cos I'm a Fool'), while a fifth was a duet with <a href="/wiki/Joyce_Grenfell" title="Joyce Grenfell">Joyce Grenfell</a>.<a href="#cite_note-65">[65]</a></li> <li>The 2011 film <a href="/wiki/My_Week_with_Marilyn" title="My Week with Marilyn">My Week with Marilyn</a> features impersonator Glenn Michael Ford playing Norman Wisdom in a background scene.</li> <li>A <a href="/wiki/Wetherspoon" class="mw-redirect" title="Wetherspoon">Wetherspoon</a> pub in <a href="/wiki/Deal,_Kent" title="Deal, Kent">Deal, Kent</a>, where Wisdom ran away from the children's home, was named The Sir Norman Wisdom in his honour when it opened in March 2013.<a href="#cite_note-66">[66]</a></li> <li>In 2015 <a href="/wiki/Wisdom_of_a_Fool" title="Wisdom of a Fool">Wisdom of a Fool</a>, a new one-man play based on the life of Norman Wisdom opened at <a href="/wiki/The_Capitol_Theatre,_Horsham" title="The Capitol Theatre, Horsham">The Capitol Theatre, Horsham</a>, in Wisdom's centenary year, on 17 September. A UK tour began at <a href="/wiki/Guildford" title="Guildford">Guildford</a>'s <a href="/wiki/Yvonne_Arnaud_Theatre" title="Yvonne Arnaud Theatre">Yvonne Arnaud Theatre</a> in 2016 and continues into 2018.<a href="#cite_note-67">[67]</a><a href="#cite_note-68">[68]</a></li> <li>Wisdom is mentioned in the song <a href="/wiki/The_Things_That_Dreams_Are_Made_Of" title="The Things That Dreams Are Made Of">The Things That Dreams Are Made Of</a> by <a href="/wiki/The_Human_League" title="The Human League">the Human League</a>, while the gatefold sleeve of their <a href="/wiki/Hysteria_(The_Human_League_album)" title="Hysteria (The Human League album)">Hysteria</a> album shows the group in a large room with a scene from <a href="/wiki/The_Early_Bird" title="The Early Bird">The Early Bird</a> on the TV.</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Filmography">Filmography</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Norman_Wisdom&action=edit&section=13" title="Edit section: Filmography">edit</a>]</div> <table class="wikitable sortable"> <tbody><tr> <th>Year </th> <th>Film </th> <th>Role </th> <th>Director </th> <th class="unsortable">Notes </th></tr> <tr> <td>1948</td> <td><a href="/wiki/A_Date_with_a_Dream" title="A Date with a Dream">A Date with a Dream</a></td> <td>Shadow Boxer</td> <td>Dicky Leeman</td> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <td>1953</td> <td><a href="/wiki/Trouble_in_Store" title="Trouble in Store">Trouble in Store</a></td> <td rowspan="2">Norman</td> <td rowspan="7"><a href="/wiki/John_Paddy_Carstairs" title="John Paddy Carstairs">John Paddy Carstairs</a></td> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <td rowspan="3">1955</td> <td><a href="/wiki/One_Good_Turn_(1955_film)" title="One Good Turn (1955 film)">One Good Turn</a></td> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/As_Long_as_They%27re_Happy" title="As Long as They're Happy">As Long as They're Happy</a></td> <td>Norman – Cameo Appearance</td> <td>uncredited </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Man_of_the_Moment_(1955_film)" title="Man of the Moment (1955 film)">Man of the Moment</a></td> <td rowspan="2">Norman</td> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <td>1956</td> <td><a href="/wiki/Up_in_the_World" title="Up in the World">Up in the World</a></td> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <td>1957</td> <td><a href="/wiki/Just_My_Luck_(1957_film)" title="Just My Luck (1957 film)">Just My Luck</a></td> <td>Norman Hackett</td> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <td>1958</td> <td><a href="/wiki/The_Square_Peg" title="The Square Peg">The Square Peg</a></td> <td>Norman Pitkin / General Schreiber</td> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <td>1959</td> <td><a href="/wiki/Follow_a_Star" title="Follow a Star">Follow a Star</a></td> <td>Norman Truscott</td> <td><a href="/wiki/Robert_Asher_(director)" title="Robert Asher (director)">Robert Asher</a></td> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <td>1960</td> <td><a href="/wiki/There_Was_a_Crooked_Man_(1960_film)" title="There Was a Crooked Man (1960 film)">There Was a Crooked Man</a></td> <td>Davy Cooper</td> <td><a href="/wiki/Stuart_Burge" title="Stuart Burge">Stuart Burge</a></td> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <td>1960</td> <td><a href="/wiki/The_Bulldog_Breed" title="The Bulldog Breed">The Bulldog Breed</a></td> <td>Norman Puckle</td> <td><a href="/wiki/Robert_Asher_(director)" title="Robert Asher (director)">Robert Asher</a></td> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <td>1961</td> <td><a href="/wiki/The_Girl_on_the_Boat_(film)" title="The Girl on the Boat (film)">The Girl on the Boat</a></td> <td>Sam Marlowe</td> <td><a href="/wiki/Henry_Kaplan" title="Henry Kaplan">Henry Kaplan</a></td> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <td>1962</td> <td><a href="/wiki/On_the_Beat_(1962_film)" title="On the Beat (1962 film)">On the Beat</a></td> <td>Norman Pitkin / Giulio Napolitani</td> <td rowspan="3"><a href="/wiki/Robert_Asher_(director)" title="Robert Asher (director)">Robert Asher</a></td> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <td>1963</td> <td><a href="/wiki/A_Stitch_in_Time_(1963_film)" title="A Stitch in Time (1963 film)">A Stitch in Time</a></td> <td rowspan="2">Norman Pitkin</td> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <td>1965</td> <td><a href="/wiki/The_Early_Bird" title="The Early Bird">The Early Bird</a></td> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <td rowspan="2">1966</td> <td><a href="/wiki/The_Sandwich_Man_(1966_film)" title="The Sandwich Man (1966 film)">The Sandwich Man</a></td> <td>Boxing Vicar</td> <td><a href="/wiki/Robert_Hartford-Davis" title="Robert Hartford-Davis">Robert Hartford-Davis</a></td> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Press_for_Time" title="Press for Time">Press for Time</a></td> <td>Norman Shields / Emily, his mother / Wilfred, his grandfather </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Robert_Asher_(director)" title="Robert Asher (director)">Robert Asher</a></td> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <td>1968</td> <td><a href="/wiki/The_Night_They_Raided_Minsky%27s" title="The Night They Raided Minsky's">The Night They Raided Minsky's</a></td> <td>Chick Williams</td> <td><a href="/wiki/William_Friedkin" title="William Friedkin">William Friedkin</a></td> <td>USA </td></tr> <tr> <td>1969</td> <td><a href="/wiki/What%27s_Good_for_the_Goose" title="What's Good for the Goose">What's Good for the Goose</a></td> <td>Timothy Bartlett</td> <td><a href="/wiki/Menahem_Golan" title="Menahem Golan">Menahem Golan</a></td> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <td>1992</td> <td>Double X, Run Rabbit Run</td> <td>Arthur Clutten</td> <td></td> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <td>1998</td> <td>Where on Earth Is ... <a href="/wiki/Katy_Manning" title="Katy Manning">Katy Manning</a></td> <td>Self</td> <td></td> <td>documentary </td></tr> <tr> <td>2001</td> <td>Junfans Attic</td> <td></td> <td></td> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <td>2004</td> <td><a href="/wiki/Five_Children_and_It_(2004_film)" class="mw-redirect" title="Five Children and It (2004 film)">Five Children and It</a></td> <td>Nesbitt</td> <td><a href="/wiki/John_Stephenson_(director)" title="John Stephenson (director)">John Stephenson</a></td> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <td>2007</td> <td><a href="/wiki/Expresso_(film)" title="Expresso (film)">Expresso</a></td> <td>The Vicar</td> <td>Kevin Powis</td> <td>Short; Buzz </td></tr></tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Television">Television</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Norman_Wisdom&action=edit&section=14" title="Edit section: Television">edit</a>]</div> <table class="wikitable"> <caption> </caption> <tbody><tr> <th>Year </th> <th>Title </th> <th>Role </th> <th>Director </th> <th>Notes </th></tr> <tr> <td>1948-1950 </td> <td>Wit and Wisdom </td> <td> </td> <td> </td> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <td>1967 </td> <td>Androclese and the Lion </td> <td>Androclese </td> <td> </td> <td>TV movie </td></tr> <tr> <td rowspan="2">1970 </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Norman_(TV_series)" title="Norman (TV series)">Norman</a> </td> <td>Norman Wilkins </td> <td>Alan Tarrant </td> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <td>Music Hall </td> <td> </td> <td> </td> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <td>1973 </td> <td>Nobody Is Norman Wisdom </td> <td>Nobody </td> <td> </td> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <td>1974 </td> <td><a href="/wiki/A_Little_Bit_of_Wisdom" title="A Little Bit of Wisdom">A Little Bit of Wisdom</a> </td> <td>Norman </td> <td> </td> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <td>1981 </td> <td><a href="/wiki/BBC2_Playhouse" title="BBC2 Playhouse">BBC2 Playhouse</a> </td> <td>Bernard Flood </td> <td> </td> <td>Episode: Going Gently. <a href="/wiki/BAFTA" class="mw-redirect" title="BAFTA">BAFTA</a> Best Single Play, 1982 </td></tr> <tr> <td>1983 </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Bergerac_(TV_series)" title="Bergerac (TV series)">Bergerac</a> </td> <td>Vincent </td> <td> </td> <td>Episode: "Almost Like a Holiday" </td></tr> <tr> <td>1988 </td> <td>The 1950s: Music, Memories & Milestones </td> <td> </td> <td> </td> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <td>1995-2004 </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Last_of_the_Summer_Wine" title="Last of the Summer Wine">Last of the Summer Wine</a> </td> <td>Billy Ingleton </td> <td> </td> <td>7 episodes </td></tr> <tr> <td>1998 </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Casualty_(TV_series)" title="Casualty (TV series)">Casualty</a> </td> <td>Mr. Cole </td> <td> </td> <td>Episode: "She Loved the Rain" </td></tr> <tr> <td>2002 </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Dalziel_and_Pascoe_(TV_series)" title="Dalziel and Pascoe (TV series)">Dalziel and Pascoe</a> </td> <td>Bernie Marks </td> <td> </td> <td>Episode: "Mens Sana" </td></tr> <tr> <td rowspan="2">2003 </td> <td><a href="/wiki/The_Last_Detective" title="The Last Detective">The Last Detective</a> </td> <td>Lofty Brock </td> <td> </td> <td>Episode: "Lofty" </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Between_the_Sheets_(TV_series)" title="Between the Sheets (TV series)">Between the Sheets</a> </td> <td>Maurice Hardy </td> <td> </td> <td>Miniseries </td></tr> <tr> <td>2004 </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Coronation_Street" title="Coronation Street">Coronation Street</a> </td> <td>Ernie Crabbe </td> <td> </td> <td>1 episode </td></tr> <tr> <td>2008 </td> <td>Wonderland: The Secret Life Of Norman Wisdom Aged 92 and 3/4 </td> <td> </td> <td> </td> <td> </td></tr></tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Box_office_ranking">Box office ranking</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Norman_Wisdom&action=edit&section=15" title="Edit section: Box office ranking">edit</a>]</div> For a number of years British exhibitors voted Wisdom one of the most popular stars in the country. <ul><li>1954 – 10th most popular star (3rd most popular British star)<a href="#cite_note-Wayne-21">[21]</a></li> <li>1955 – 6th most popular star (3rd most popular British star)<a href="#cite_note-ReferenceA-24">[24]</a></li> <li>1956 – 5th biggest British star<a href="#cite_note-69">[69]</a></li> <li>1957 – 9th most popular star (5th most popular British star)<a href="#cite_note-70">[70]</a></li> <li>1958 – 7th most popular British star</li> <li>1959 – 3rd most popular British star<a href="#cite_note-71">[71]</a></li> <li>1963 – 10th most popular star<a href="#cite_note-72">[72]</a></li> <li>1966 – 5th most popular star<a href="#cite_note-ReferenceB-27">[27]</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Audio_recordings">Audio recordings</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Norman_Wisdom&action=edit&section=16" title="Edit section: Audio recordings">edit</a>]</div> <ul><li>I Would Like to Put on Record</li> <li>Jingle Jangle</li> <li>The Very Best of Norman Wisdom</li> <li>Androcles and the Lion US Television, Original Cast Recording.</li> <li>Where's Charley? London Cast Recording.</li> <li>Wisdom of a Fool</li> <li>Nobody's Fool</li> <li>Follow a Star</li> <li>1957 Original Chart Hits</li> <li>Walking Happy Original Broadway Cast Recording.</li> <li>The Night They Raided Minsky's Motion Picture Soundtrack recording.</li> <li>Follow a Star/Give Me a Night in June</li> <li>Happy Ending/The Wisdom of a Fool</li> <li>Big in Albania – One Hit Wonderland</li> <li>They Didn't Believe Me</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Books">Books</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Norman_Wisdom&action=edit&section=17" title="Edit section: Books">edit</a>]</div> <ul><li>Lucky Little Devil: Norman Wisdom on the Island He's Made His Home (2004)</li> <li><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1238218222">.mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit;word-wrap:break-word}.mw-parser-output .citation q{quotes:"\"""\"""'""'"}.mw-parser-output .citation:target{background-color:rgba(0,127,255,0.133)}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-free.id-lock-free a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/65/Lock-green.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited.id-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration.id-lock-registration a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription.id-lock-subscription a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4c/Wikisource-logo.svg")right 0.1em center/12px no-repeat}body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-free a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background-size:contain;padding:0 1em 0 0}.mw-parser-output .cs1-code{color:inherit;background:inherit;border:none;padding:inherit}.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-error{display:none;color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-error{color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{display:none;color:#085;margin-left:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right{padding-right:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .citation .mw-selflink{font-weight:inherit}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}</style><cite id="CITEREFNorman_Wisdom2003" class="citation book cs1">Norman Wisdom, William Hall (2003). My Turn. Arrow Books. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-09-944676-7" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-09-944676-7"><bdi>978-0-09-944676-7</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=My+Turn&rft.pub=Arrow+Books&rft.date=2003&rft.isbn=978-0-09-944676-7&rft.aulast=Norman+Wisdom&rft.aufirst=William+Hall&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ANorman+Wisdom" class="Z3988"></li> <li>Don't Laugh at Me, Cos I'm a Fool (1992) (two volumes of autobiography)</li> <li>Trouble in Store (1991)</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Norman_Wisdom&action=edit&section=18" title="Edit section: References">edit</a>]</div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist .references{font-size:100%;margin-bottom:0;list-style-type:inherit}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-2{column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-3{column-width:25em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns{margin-top:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns ol{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns li{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-alpha{list-style-type:upper-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-roman{list-style-type:upper-roman}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-alpha{list-style-type:lower-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-greek{list-style-type:lower-greek}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-roman{list-style-type:lower-roman}</style><div class="reflist"> <div class="mw-references-wrap mw-references-columns"><ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-freebmd-1">^ <a href="#cite_ref-freebmd_1-0">a</a> <a href="#cite_ref-freebmd_1-1">b</a> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.freebmd.org.uk/cgi/information.pl?cite=Z88y67oUfrlQzqQjDgmp2Q&scan=1">"Birth Index entry"</a>. 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