Norman Wisdom  

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Sir Norman Joseph Wisdom OBE (4 February 1915 – 4 October 2010) was an English comedian, singer-songwriter and actor best known for a series of comedy films produced between 1953 and 1966 featuring his onscreen "gump" character Norman Pitkin. Charlie Chaplin famously referred to Wisdom as his "favourite clown".

Filmography

• A Date with a Dream (1948)
• Wit and Wisdom (1948–50, TV)
• Trouble in Store (1953)
• One Good Turn (1954)
• As Long as They're Happy (1955)
• Man of the Moment (1955)
• Up in the World (1956)
• Just My Luck (1957)
• The Square Peg (1958)
• Follow a Star (1959)
• There Was a Crooked Man (1960)
• The Bulldog Breed (1960)
• On the Beat (1962)
• The Girl on the Boat (1962)
• A Stitch in Time (1963)
• The Early Bird (1965)
• The Sandwich Man (1966)
• Press for Time (1966)
• Androcles and the Lion (1967, TV)
• The Night They Raided Minsky's (1968)
• What's Good for the Goose (1969)
• Norman (1970, TV)
• Music Hall (1970, TV)
• Nobody Is Norman Wisdom (1973, TV)
• A Little Bit of Wisdom (1974, TV)
• BBC Playhouse: "Going Gently" (1981, TV)
• BBC Bergerac: "Almost Like a Holiday" (1983, TV)
• The 1950s: Music, Memories & Milestones (1988, TV)
• Double X: The Name of the Game (Double X, Run Rabbit Run) (1992)
• Last of the Summer Wine episode "The Man Who Nearly Knew Pavarotti" (1995, TV)
• Last of the Summer Wine episode "Extra, Extra!" (1996, TV)
• Where on Earth Is ... Katy Manning (1998, TV)
• Casualty episode "She Loved the Rain" (1998, TV)
• Junfans Attic (2001)
• Last of the Summer Wine episode "Gnome and Away" (2001, TV)
• Last of the Summer Wine episode "The Coming of the Beast" (2001, TV)
• Last of the Summer Wine episode "A Musical Passing for a Miserable Muscroft" (2002, TV)
• Dalziel and Pascoe episode "Mens Sana" (2002, TV)
• Last of the Summer Wine episode "The General's Greatest Battle" (2004, TV)
• Coronation Street (2004, TV)
• Five Children and It (2004) Played Nesbitt.
• Last of the Summer Wine episode "Variations on a Theme of the Widow Winstanley" (2004, TV)
• Expresso (2007) [www.expressofilm.com]
• Evil Calls: The Raven (Filmed Pre-2007 Released(2008))
• Wonderland: The Secret Life Of Norman Wisdom Aged 92 and 3/4 (2008, TV) (his last appearance)

CDs and vinyl

• I Would Like to Put on Record
• Jingle Jangle
• The Very Best of Norman Wisdom
• Androcles and the Lion
• Where's Charley?
• Wisdom of a Fool
• Nobody's Fool
• Follow a Star
• 1957 Original Chart Hits
• Follow a Star/Give Me a Night in June
• Happy Ending/The Wisdom Of A Fool
• Big in Albania – One Hit Wonderland