Norman Wisdom

Sir Norman Joseph Wisdom, OBE was an English actor, comedian, and singersongwriter best known for a series of comedy films produced between 1953 and 1966 featuring his hapless onscreen character Norman Pitkin. 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 by Western actors permitted by dictator Enver Hoxha to be shown. Charlie Chaplin once referred to Wisdom as his favourite clown.

Norman Joseph Wisdom was born in the Marylebone district of London. His parents were Frederick, a chauffeur, and Maud Wisdom , a dressmaker who often worked for West End theatres, and had made a dress for Queen Mary. The couple married in Marylebone onJuly 1912. Wisdom had an elder brother, Frederick Thomas Fred Wisdom .

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