Norman Mitchell
Profile
Last update: 10/10/99
Call Norman on 01366 386395
OR Mail Dealing With It Films
for artist's availability.
| Height: | 6' 1" |
| Build: | Heavy |
| Hair: | Grizzled |
| Eyes: | Blue |
| Place of Birth: | Sheffield, Yorkshire |
| Currently Living: | Downham Market, Norfolk |
| Stage & Screen Credits: | Theatre includes: Hamlet, Macbeth, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (Sir Arthur), Hobson's Choice (Hobson), Aladdin, Troilus & Cressida.
TV includes: Worzel Gummidge, Crossroads, Goodbye Mr Chips, Vanity Fair, All Creatures Great & Small, Casualty, Last of the Summer Wine, Lily Savage Show, 'Having It ...'.
Films include: Carry on Spying, Carry on Cleo, Carry on Cabbie, Carry on Screaming, The Gt. St. Trinians Train Robbery, Half a Sixpence, The Seekers, Revenge of the Pink Panther, Oliver, Barry Lyndon
Also Fringe theatre & numerous radio appearances |
| Skills: | Boxing (boxed for British Army), Drives (holds current licence), swims, rides bicycle |
| Favourite Music: | Spanish Guitar - Flamenco |
| Favourite Movies/Shows: | The Third Man, Oliver, Intolerance
| | Favourite Actors: | Orson Welles,
Sir Laurence Olivier,
Dame Judi Dench |
| Upcoming Films/TV Shows: | Numerous short films. You can also catch Norman in 'Having It ...' soon
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| Awards: | Licentiate of Guildhall School of Music and Drama (Elocution)
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| Associations/Bodies: | Equity, Spotlight 15461.
International Voice Bank
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Norman Mitchell has clocked more than 2,000 TV appearances and 500 radio broadcasts. Started out at Sheffield Rep. Theatre and worked with Patrick McGoohan. Served 6 years in the Royal Army Medical Corps during World War II, including a 3 year secondment to the Desert Rats; Two years in Italy, Monte Cassino veteran. Boxed for the Army. In 1945 he moved to the Army Bureau of Current Affairs Play Unit. A member of the RSC for 3 years, including a tour of Australia. A member of the BBC Radio Drama Rep. for 2 years.
TV credits date back to 1956 with The Adventures of Sir Lancelot and William Tell, to Casualty and William Tell in 1989. Film appaearances began with The Seekers in 1954 with Ian Fleming and Thomas Heathcote to the Carry on Films (1963-1967), Oliver in 1968, Barry Lyndon in 1975, The Wicked Lady in 1983 through to Revenge of Billy the Kid (1992) and Dirty Weekend (1993). More recently he has played Brownlow in the British film The Lighthouse.
Norman now lives in Downham Market in Norfolk but regularly drives to film shoots throughout the UK.
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