A Portrait of the British Comic Actor Norman Wisdom

Steve Newman Writer
12 min readJul 28, 2018

“ Good morning Norman.” “ Good morning Mr Churchill…”

Image: Daily Mirror

With the death of Norman Wisdom on Monday 4th October, 2010, aged 95, the world lost one of its funniest, most able, and most generous of comic actors. It also lost a man who, for millions of film goers, was someone who — in his ill-fitting suit and askew cloth cap — represented their own struggles in life against the…

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