Norman Wisdom
Because of my interest in the Rank Organisation, I watched a service comedy tonight from 1958 called “The Square Peg,” starring Norman Wisdom and Honor Blackman. Wisdom stars as Norman Pitman, a British council road builder during World War II who gets drafted into the army. Along the way, he gets to impersonate both a woman and a Nazi general. The film reminded me more of the “Carry On” films than any of the classic British comedies, such as “The Maggie,” from 1954, or “Whiskey Galore,” from 1949 — but it’s better to compare it to “No Time for Sergeants,” an American service comedy with Andy Griffith from 1958.
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Although Norman Wisdom starred in numerous films, theater and TV productions, this year’s Oscar telecast did not mention him in the “In Memoriam” segment, even though he died in October 2010. That’s odd because Charlie Chaplin referred to him as his favorite clown, and he became a cult hero in Albania. The UK knighted him in 2000, and he continued working until the age of 90.