Sir Norman Joseph Wisdom, OBE
(4 February 1915 – 4 October 2010)
Norman Wisdom was an English comedian, singer-songwriter and actor best known for a series of comedy films produced between 1953 and 1966 featuring his hapless onscreen character Norman Pitkin. Charlie Chaplin famously referred to Wisdom as his "favourite clown".
He 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. He was knighted in 2000 and spent much of his later life on the Isle of Man.
Norman Wisdom’s first marriage, to Doreen, was a wartime romance, and was quickly dissolved. In 1947 he married Freda Simpson, with whom he had a son and a daughter. That marriage was dissolved in 1969.
Six months prior to his death, Wisdom suffered a series of strokes causing a decline in his physical and mental health. He died at Abbotswood nursing home on the Isle of Man. He is survived by his two children, Nick and Jacqui.
RIP
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