A very helpful friend of mine is doing a trek in iceland next year and needs to raise some money!
It's a very worthwhile cause and all of the money will be donated to The Beacon Centre for the Blind.
If you can help, please donate anything you can by clicking here
Thank you for your help,
Norman
My Early Life:
I was born in the London district of Marylebone to Frederick and Maude Wisdom. My father was a chauffeur and my mother a dressmaker. After a difficult and poverty-stricken childhood I joined the 10th Hussars and began to develop my talents as a musician and stage entertainer. My mother left when I was nine, and me and my brother were left in the charge of our father. I ran away from home when I was 11, but returned to become an errand boy with a grocery store on leaving school at 13. Later, I was a coal-miner, a waiter, a pageboy and a cabin-boy, before joining the army and seeing service in India. Leaving in 1946, I made my debut as an entertainer at the advanced age of 31 - but my rise to the top was phenomenally fast. A West End star within two years, I made my TV debut the same year and was soon commanding enormous audiences. By this time, I had adopted the suit that would remain my trademark - tweed cap askew with peak turned up, too-tight jacket, barely-better trousers, crumpled collar and tie awry. The character known as "the gump" was to dominate my film career.
Filmography
* 1948 Film A Date with a Dream * 1948-50 TV Wit and Wisdom * 1953 Film Trouble in Store * 1954 Film One Good Turn * 1955 Film As Long as They're Happy * 1955 Film Man of the Moment * 1956 Film Up in the World * 1957 Film Just My Luck * 1958 Film The Square Peg * 1959 Film Follow A Star * 1960 Film There Was a Crooked Man * 1960 Film The Bulldog Breed * 1962 Film On The Beat * 1962 Film The Girl on the Boat * 1963 Film A Stitch in Time * 1965 Film The Early Bird * 1966 Film The Sandwich Man * 1966 Film Press for Time * 1967 TV Androcles and the Lion * 1968 Film The Night They Raided Minsky's (The Night They Invented Striptease) * 1969 Film What's Good for the Goose (Girl Trouble) * 1970 TV Norman * 1970 TV Music Hall * 1973 TV Nobody Is Norman Wisdom * 1974 TV A Little Bit of Wisdom * 1981 TV BBC PlayHouse : Going Gently * 1988 TV The 1950's: Music, Memories & Milestones * 1992 TV Double X: The Name of the Game (Double X, Run Rabbit Run) * 1994 TV Last of the Summer Wine - The Man Who Nearly Knew Pavarotti * 1998 TV Where On Earth Is ... Katy Manning * 2000 TV Last of the Summer Wine - The Coming of the Beast * 2002 TV Last of the Summer Wine - A Musical Passing for a Miserable Muscroft * 2002 TV Dalziel and Pascoe - Mens Sana * 2003 TV Between the Sheets * 2004 TV Five Children and It
CDs and Vinyl
* The Very Best of Norman Wisdom * 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
Filmography
* 1948 Film A Date with a Dream * 1948-50 TV Wit and Wisdom * 1953 Film Trouble in Store * 1954 Film One Good Turn * 1955 Film As Long as They're Happy * 1955 Film Man of the Moment * 1956 Film Up in the World * 1957 Film Just My Luck * 1958 Film The Square Peg * 1959 Film Follow A Star * 1960 Film There Was a Crooked Man * 1960 Film The Bulldog Breed * 1962 Film On The Beat * 1962 Film The Girl on the Boat * 1963 Film A Stitch in Time * 1965 Film The Early Bird * 1966 Film The Sandwich Man * 1966 Film Press for Time * 1967 TV Androcles and the Lion * 1968 Film The Night They Raided Minsky's (The Night They Invented Striptease) * 1969 Film What's Good for the Goose (Girl Trouble) * 1970 TV Norman * 1970 TV Music Hall * 1973 TV Nobody Is Norman Wisdom * 1974 TV A Little Bit of Wisdom * 1981 TV BBC PlayHouse : Going Gently * 1988 TV The 1950's: Music, Memories & Milestones * 1992 TV Double X: The Name of the Game (Double X, Run Rabbit Run) * 1994 TV Last of the Summer Wine - The Man Who Nearly Knew Pavarotti * 1998 TV Where On Earth Is ... Katy Manning * 2000 TV Last of the Summer Wine - The Coming of the Beast * 2002 TV Last of the Summer Wine - A Musical Passing for a Miserable Muscroft * 2002 TV Dalziel and Pascoe - Mens Sana * 2003 TV Between the Sheets * 2004 TV Five Children and It
Books
* Lucky Little Devil: Norman Wisdom on the Island He's Made His Home (2004) * My Turn: Autobiography (2002) * Don't Laugh At Me / Cos I'm A Fool (1992) (two volumes of autobiography)* Lucky Little Devil: Norman Wisdom on the Island He's Made His Home (2004) * My Turn: Autobiography (2002) * Don't Laugh At Me / Cos I'm A Fool (1992) (two volumes of autobiography)
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