Highest rated movie: Androcles and the Lion (1967)
Lowest rated movie: Double X: The Name of the Game (1992)
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Movies starring Norman Wisdom have generally received positive reviews and hold an average score of 60%.
Androcles and the Lion - released in 1967 - is Norman Wisdom's highest rated movie, with a score of 70% based on 4 reviews.
The lowest rated film from Norman Wisdom is Double X: The Name of the Game - released in 1992 - with a score of 47% based on 1 reviews.
Sir Norman Joseph Wisdom, OBE (4 February 1915 – 4 October 2010) was an English actor, comedian and singer-songwriter best known for a series of comedy films produced between 1953 and 1966 featuring his hapless onscreen character Norman Pitkin. These films initially made more money than the James Bond film series, and secured Wisdom a celebrity status in lands as far apart as South America, Iran and many Eastern Bloc countries, particularly in Albania where his films were permitted by Enver Hoxha – Wisdom was the only Western actor to enjoy this privilege. Charlie Chaplin famously referred to Wisdom as his "favourite clown".
Wisdom later forged a career on Broadway 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. It was broadcast on 5 June that year. He toured Australia and South Africa. After the 1986 Chernobyl disaster, a hospice was named in his honour. In 1995 he was given the Freedom of the City of London and of Tirana. The same year he received an OBE. Wisdom was knighted in 2000 and spent much of his later life on the Isle of Man. Some of his later appearances included roles in Last of the Summer Wine and Coronation Street, and he retired from acting at the age of 90 after his health declined.
Norman Wisdom has acted in films with Alan Beaton, Victor Harrington, Eddie Leslie and Dan Cressey.
Norman Wisdom has worked with these film directors: Robert Asher, John Paddy Carstairs, Shani Grewal and Henry Kaplan.
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