Norman Rossington

Norman Rossington

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Birthday: 
24 December 1928, Liverpool, England, UK
Height: 
171 cm
Spade-jawed British character actor Norman Rossington was born in Liverpool, so it shouldn't be considered THAT ironic that he would end up appearing in The Beatles' debut film smash, A Hard Day's Night (1964), as "Norm", the Fab Four's chagrined road manager. The son of a publican, he never finished high school, leavi... Show more »
Spade-jawed British character actor Norman Rossington was born in Liverpool, so it shouldn't be considered THAT ironic that he would end up appearing in The Beatles' debut film smash, A Hard Day's Night (1964), as "Norm", the Fab Four's chagrined road manager. The son of a publican, he never finished high school, leaving at age 14 and living a rather wanderlust adolescent life as messenger, office boy, carpenter apprentice, etc. Later, he went to night school and studied industrial design in order to become a draughtsman. Interest in acting happened by accident and, eventually, Rossington joined a local theatre group. He trained seriously at the Bristol Old Vic and began appearing in both straight plays ("A Midsummer Night's Dream") and musicals ("Salad Days") by the mid-50s. Within a few years, he had extended his visability to films and TV, setting up his rather bumbling persona as "Private Cupcake" on the TV comedy series, The Army Game (1957). Along with roles in a few of the zany "Carry On..." slapstick films, Rossington established himself firmly as a comedy performer with I Only Arsked! (1958), Crooks Anonymous (1962) and Nurse on Wheels (1963), representing a few of his farcical credits. Yet his finest creation was arguably in the "kitchen sink" drama, Saturday Night and Sunday Morning (1960), as Albert Finney's sensible, down-to-earth, blue-collar pal. Though he never attained outright stardom, Rossington became a reliable, familiar mug with minor roles in such epic British and U.S. films as Saint Joan (1957), The Longest Day (1962), Lawrence of Arabia (1962), Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines or How I Flew from London to Paris in 25 hours 11 minutes (1965), The Charge of the Light Brigade (1968) and Young Winston (1972), not to mention the equally epic TV miniseries, I, Claudius (1976) and Masada (1981). Rossington's greatest impression would lie in musical theatre, especially in his later career. Such spirited roles in "Peter Pan" (as "Starkey"), "My Fair Lady" (as "Alfred Doolittle"), "Annie Get Your Gun" (as "Charlie Davenport"), "Pickwick: The Musical" (as "Tony Weller"), "Guys and Dolls" (as "Nathan Detroit") and, lastly, as Beauty's father in "Beauty and the Beast", made him an endearing favorite in the West End. Cancer claimed him at age 70 in 1999. Show less «

Norman Rossington's FILMOGRAPHY

Heartbeat - Season 17

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Last of the Summer Wine - Season 31

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Last of the Summer Wine - Season 30

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Sharpe - Season 7

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Last of the Summer Wine - Season 29

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Heartbeat - Season 18

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Last of the Summer Wine - Season 28

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Sharpe - Season 6

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Last of the Summer Wine - Season 27

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Heartbeat - Season 16

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Last of the Summer Wine - Season 26

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Heartbeat - Season 15

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Last of the Summer Wine - Season 25

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Heartbeat - Season 14

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Last of the Summer Wine - Season 24

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Heartbeat - Season 13

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Last of the Summer Wine - Season 23

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Heartbeat - Season 12

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Last of the Summer Wine - Season 22

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Heartbeat - Season 11

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Last of the Summer Wine - Season 21

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Heartbeat - Season 10

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Last of the Summer Wine - Season 20

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