Norman Bird Overview:

Character actor, Norman Bird, was born Norman A. Bird on Oct 30, 1920 in Coalville, England. Bird died at the age of 84 on Apr 22, 2005 in Wolverhampton, England .

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British actor with man-in-the-street air, usually sporting a toothbrush moustache. Referred to himself as "the man with the cardigan" and played numerous henpecked, inadequate, interfering or tentatively friendly little men or petty officials. Busiest in films in the 1960s.

(Source: available at Amazon Quinlan's Film Character Actors: an Illustrated Directory).

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Norman Bird Quotes:

Paul Farrell: Can I buy you a drink, M. Salon?
Salon: Oh, no thank you. monsieur. I am on duty, and when on duty, I allow myself three drinks only.


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Norman Bird Facts
Bryan Forbes directed him in Whistle Down The Wind (1961), The Wrong Box (1966) and The Raging Moon (1970). In the last he played the father of Nanette Newman (Forbes' wife) despite the fact that there was only a fourteen-year age gap between them.

Bridgnorth, his home from 1992, was well known to him from his wartime days at Stanmore Camp, an RAF training establishment.

One of the UK's finest and most prolific character actors, credited with over two hundred television and sixty film roles which began in 1954 with Guy Hamilton's "An Inspector Calls".

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