Norman Rossington

Norman Rossington

Birthday: 1928-12-24

Place of Birth: Liverpool, England, UK

Biography: Norman Rossington (December 24, 1928 - May 21, 1999) was an English actor best remembered for his roles in The Army Game, the Carry On films and the Beatles' film A Hard Day's Night.

Movies

A Hard Day's Night
A Hard Day's Night

Capturing John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr in their electrifying element...

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Death Line
Death Line

When a government official disappears in the London tunnels, after several reports of missing people...

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Carry On Sergeant
Carry On Sergeant

Sergeant Grimshawe wants to retire in the flush of success by winning the Star Squad prize with his ...

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Tobruk
Tobruk

In September 1942, the German Afrika Korps under Rommel have successfully pushed the Allies back int...

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Saturday Night and Sunday Morning
Saturday Night and Sunday Morning

A 22-year-old factory worker lets loose on the weekends: drinking, brawling, and dating two women, o...

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House of the Long Shadows
House of the Long Shadows

An American writer goes to a remote Welsh manor on a $20,000 bet that he can write a classic novel l...

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Man in the Wilderness
Man in the Wilderness

In the early 1800s, a group of fur trappers and Indian traders are returning with their goods to civ...

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Tune On the Old Tax Fiddle
Tune On the Old Tax Fiddle

When the inland revenue gets an angry mistress's letter exposing a man named Toby as a tax cheat, th...

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Strangers' Meeting
Strangers' Meeting

A fateful Stranger's Meeting leads to a maelstrom of crime, deception and murder in this 64-minute B...

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A Night to Remember
A Night to Remember

The sinking of the Titanic is presented in a highly realistic fashion in this tense British drama. T...

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The Running Jumping & Standing Still Film
The Running Jumping & Standing Still Film

A short film without any direct action designed more as an experiment, with disjointed comic scenes ...

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Nurse on Wheels
Nurse on Wheels

Quietly competent young Joanna moves with her scatterbrain mother to a country village to take up he...

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Treasure Island
Treasure Island

Intrigue...comedy...adventure...unforgettable characters and exotic settings - the legendary story o...

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Joseph Andrews
Joseph Andrews

Lady Booby alias 'Belle', the lively wife of the fat landed squire Sir Thomas Booby, has a lusty eye...

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The Adventures of Gerard
The Adventures of Gerard

Based on satirical short stories by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle about a vain, egotistical Etienne Gerard,...

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Two Gentlemen Sharing
Two Gentlemen Sharing

An insecure Briton and a Briton of Jamaican descent share a London apartment together....

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Go for a Take
Go for a Take

Two inept gamblers on the run from their debts and a gang of crooks find refuge in a film studio....

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Cup Fever
Cup Fever

The children of Barton United are trying to win the cup in their local football (soccer) league. Nas...

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Simon Simon
Simon Simon

A comedy short with very little speaking. Graham Stark and John Junkin have a new elevated platform ...

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The League of Gentlemen
The League of Gentlemen

Involuntarily-retired Colonel Hyde recruits seven other dissatisfied ex-servicemen for a special pro...

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Rhubarb Rhubarb
Rhubarb Rhubarb

During a game of golf between a police inspector and a vicar the inspector cheats by having a consta...

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The Big Flame
The Big Flame

After a prolonged industrial dispute in the Liverpool Docks, the striking workers reject management ...

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Negatives
Negatives

A couple's bizarre romantic relationship is disrupted by the intrusion of a third person....

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Negatives
Negatives

A couple's bizarre romantic relationship is disrupted by the intrusion of a third person....

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Carry On Christmas (or Carry On Stuffing)
Carry On Christmas (or Carry On Stuffing)

Two unforeseen problems meant that many fans consider this the weakest Christmas special. Firstly, T...

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The Long Distance Piano Player
The Long Distance Piano Player

The first Play for Today is the story of one man's obsession (to win the world long distance piano p...

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The Krays
The Krays

Twins Ronnie and Reggie Kray are raised in east London, under the influence of their hateful but dot...

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The Prisoner of Zenda
The Prisoner of Zenda

Anthony Hope's classic tale gets a decidedly 'un-classic' treatment at the hands of Peter Sellers. F...

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S.O.S. Titanic
S.O.S. Titanic

The Titanic disaster as seen through the eyes of one couple in each of the three classes on board....

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Vinegar Trip
Vinegar Trip

The title is taken from a Liverpool saying, "Off on a vinegar trip," which is applied to a person be...

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Prisoner and Escort
Prisoner and Escort

Private Jupp is under arrest for a long list of charges and is being escorted by train to Catterick ...

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Tommy Cooper - The Magic Touch
Tommy Cooper - The Magic Touch

Tommy Cooper, the hapless magician who was in a league of his own, is joined here by a star-studded ...

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Carry On Regardless
Carry On Regardless

After a bunch of no-hopers approaches an employment agency, the anarchy mounts as they do a series o...

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Doctor in Love
Doctor in Love

Doctors Burke and Hare leave the confines of St Swithins for the world of general practice, stopping...

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Carry On Nurse
Carry On Nurse

In Haven Hospital, a certain men's ward is causing more havoc than the whole hospital altogether. Th...

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Lawrence of Arabia
Lawrence of Arabia

During World War I, English officer Thomas Edward 'T.E.' Lawrence sets out to unite and lead the div...

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Daylight Robbery
Daylight Robbery

Three children are locked in a store by accident. They help catch a gang who break into the store th...

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The Wrong Box
The Wrong Box

In Victorian England, a fortune now depends on which of two brothers outlives the other—or can be ma...

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Big Jim and the Figaro Club
Big Jim and the Figaro Club

In the early 1950s 'College' comes down from Cambridge to work for the summer with his old mates on ...

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Double Trouble
Double Trouble

When singer Guy Lambert goes on tour in Europe, he is pursued by two beautiful women, bumbling jewel...

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The Changeling
The Changeling

Sexual passion breeds violence in the Thomas Middleton and William Rowley written tale of a beautifu...

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Digby, the Biggest Dog in the World
Digby, the Biggest Dog in the World

Digby consumes a bowl of Project X, a liquid growth formula. Soon, he becomes a sheepdog of gigantic...

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The Charge of the Light Brigade
The Charge of the Light Brigade

During the Crimean War between Britain and Russia in the 1850s, a British cavalry division, led by t...

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Sharpe's Regiment
Sharpe's Regiment

Told his battalion is to be split up due to lack of recruits at home, Sharpe and Harper return to En...

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Let Him Have It
Let Him Have It

In 1950s England, slow-witted Derek Bentley falls in with a group of petty criminals led by Chris Cr...

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Go to Blazes
Go to Blazes

A gang of aspiring bank robbers involve themselves with arsonists and purchase their very own fire t...

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The One That Got Away
The One That Got Away

Based on the true story of Oberleutnant Franz von Werra, the only German prisoner of war captured in...

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The Comedy Man
The Comedy Man

A middle-aged stock actor goes to London to try the big time. After much frustration, he lands a job...

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The Long Haul
The Long Haul

An American ex-GI takes a job as a truck driver to support his British war bride Connie. It isn't lo...

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Will Amelia Quint Continue Writing 'A Gnome Called Shorthouse'?
Will Amelia Quint Continue Writing 'A Gnome Called Shorthouse'?

They write so many innocent words, but what are the authors of your children's stories really like?...

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Three Men in a Boat
Three Men in a Boat

Three London gentlemen take a vacation rowing down the Thames, encountering various mishaps and misa...

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Crooks Anonymous
Crooks Anonymous

A former burglar trying to go straight joins a rehabilitation scheme using much the same methods as ...

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The Longest Day
The Longest Day

The retelling of June 6, 1944, from the perspectives of the Germans, US, British, Canadians, and the...

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The Rise and Rise of Michael Rimmer
The Rise and Rise of Michael Rimmer

Fresh-faced young Michael Rimmer worms his way into an opinion poll company and is soon running the ...

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Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines or How I Flew from London to Paris in 25 Hours 11 Minutes
Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines or How I Flew from London to Paris in 25 Hours 11 Minutes

In order to boost circulation of his newspaper, Lord Rawnsley announces an air race and offers £10,0...

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Jumbo
Jumbo

"1975 was the year of the disaster movie, yeah? So what stops 1976 being the year of the disastrous ...

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Young Winston
Young Winston

This historical drama is an account of the early life of British politician Winston Churchill, inclu...

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What's a Carry On?
What's a Carry On?

Documentary commemorating the 40th anniversary of the 'Carry On' comedy film series. Archive clips a...

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Into the Dark
Into the Dark

A 1963 TV play written by Ken Taylor and broadcast as an episode of Armchair Theatre....

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No Love for Johnnie
No Love for Johnnie

Johnnie Byrne is a member of the British Parliament. In his 40s, he's feeling frustrated with his li...

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