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Norman Wisdom

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I've got one idea I want to do for a film and you know I just enjoy myself doing bits and pieces.


— Norman Wisdom


#bits and pieces #doing #enjoy #film #got

It was absolutely thrilling to meet Laurel and Hardy, they were so nice.


— Norman Wisdom


#hardy #laurel #meet #nice #thrilling

It was smashing working with Jerry Desmonde, he was a very nice chap.


— Norman Wisdom


#jerry #nice #smashing #very #working

My comedy is for children from three to 93. You do need a slightly childish sense of humour and if you haven't got that, it's very sad.


— Norman Wisdom


#children #comedy #got #haven #humour

Of course I've done musicals here in London.


— Norman Wisdom


#done #here #i #london #musicals

There are people who like just ordinary comedy fun, and making mistakes - which I do easily - and then there are people who like the falling over.


— Norman Wisdom


#easily #falling #fun #i #i do

Well if I was going to describe my audience, it's going to take longer than you'd ever expect, hundreds of years in fact, because there's many of them, all over the world.


— Norman Wisdom


#because #describe #ever #expect #fact

You know I've got a chum, a smashing mate, he's got a dog with no legs, and he calls it a cigarette. It's true, yeah, because at nighttime he has to take it out for a drag.


— Norman Wisdom


#calls #chum #cigarette #dog #drag

You see I'm semi-retired now and don't work all the time, only most of it!


— Norman Wisdom


#most #now #only #see #time






About Norman Wisdom

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Did you know about Norman Wisdom?

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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