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Norman Wisdom

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I owe everything to the army.


— Norman Wisdom


#everything #i #owe

I play drums, clarinet, saxophone, trumpet, french horn, piano.


— Norman Wisdom


#drums #french #french horn #horn #i

I used to first go on to entertain an audience. But now I go, and this is really true - I go on to have fun with a crowd of my chums.


— Norman Wisdom


#crowd #entertain #first #fun #go

I was born in London, and went to school in Scotland - I used to be dead tired when I got home at night.


— Norman Wisdom


#dead #got #home #i #i was born

I was in the band as a boy and was taught music and learned to compose.


— Norman Wisdom


#boy #compose #i #learned #music

I'm still constantly thinking of ideas. I don't feel 90. I think I'm about 12.


— Norman Wisdom


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I've always had a sense of humour, and I still do, so I just want to go on performing as long as I can. It's as simple as that.


— Norman Wisdom


#go #had #humour #i #i can

I've an idea for doing a Situation Comedy myself but its always difficult to get people to listen to you because they like to put their own ideas forward.


— Norman Wisdom


#because #comedy #difficult #doing #forward

I've been extremely lucky having been in the army when I was a boy of fourteen.


— Norman Wisdom


#been #boy #extremely #fourteen #having

I've done seven shows at the Palladium - long running shows I'm talking about.


— Norman Wisdom


#done #i #long #palladium #running






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Death
In the six months prior to his death Wisdom suffered a series of strokes causing a decline in his physical and mental health. Armed forces
After a period in a children's home in Deal Kent Wisdom ran away when he was 11 but returned to become an errand boy in a grocer's shop on leaving school at 13. Wisdom was a lifelong supporter and a former board member of football team Brighton and Hove Albion.

These films initially made more money than the James Bond film series. Wisdom later forged a career on Broadway in New York 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.

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