Norman Wisdom Net Worth, Income, Salary, Earnings, Biography

Sir Norman Joseph Wisdom, OBE (born 4 February 1915 in London, England, died 4 October 2010 in London, England) was an English actor, comedian, and singer-songwriter who was best known for a series of comedy films produced between 1953 and 1966 that featured his onscreen character Norman Pitkin, who was a complete moron. Wisdom earned notoriety in places as diverse as South America, Iran, and many countries of the former Soviet Union, especially in Albania, where his films were the only ones starring Western actors that were allowed to be screened by dictator Enver Hoxha during his reign. 

Wisdom was reportedly described to as “Charlie Chaplin’s favourite clown” by the legendary actor. Wisdom went on to have a successful career on Broadway in New York as well as on television, where he received critical praise for his tragic performance as a dying cancer patient in the television play Going Gently in 1981. In the same year, it was aired on the 5th of June. He also went on a tour of Australia and South Africa. Following the Chernobyl nuclear power plant catastrophe in 1986, a hospice was established in his honour. 

In 1995, he was awarded the Freedom of the City of London as well as the Freedom of the City of Tirana. In the same year, he was awarded the OBE. During his latter years, Wisdom lived mostly on the Isle of Man, where he was knighted in 2000. Some of his latter performances included parts in Last of the Summer Wine and Coronation Street, and he eventually resigned from acting at the age of 90 due to deteriorating health conditions.

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