Norman Rossington
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.
| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 0.6137 |
| Birthday | 1928-12-24 |
| Place of Birth | Liverpool, England, UK |
| Also Known As |
1964
A Hard Day's Night
7.3/728
Capturing John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr in their electrifying element, 'A Hard Day's Night' is a wildly irreverent jour...
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A Hard Day's Night
1972
Death Line
5.798/131
When a government official disappears in the London tunnels, after several reports of missing people in the same location, Scotland Yard start to take...
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Death Line
1958
Carry On Sergeant
6.4/71
Sergeant Grimshawe wants to retire in the flush of success by winning the Star Squad prize with his very last platoon of newly called-up National Serv...
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Carry On Sergeant
1967
Tobruk
6.393/61
In September 1942, the German Afrika Korps under Rommel have successfully pushed the Allies back into Egypt. A counter-attack is planned, for which th...
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Tobruk
1960
Saturday Night and Sunday Morning
7/154
A 22-year-old factory worker lets loose on the weekends: drinking, brawling, and dating two women, one of whom is older and married.
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Saturday Night and Sunday Morning
1983
House of the Long Shadows
6.392/118
An American writer goes to a remote Welsh manor on a $20,000 bet that he can write a classic novel like 'Wuthering Heights' in 24 hours. However, upon...
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House of the Long Shadows
1971
Man in the Wilderness
6.2/97
In the early 1800s, a group of fur trappers and Indian traders are returning with their goods to civilization and are making a desperate attempt to be...
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Man in the Wilderness
Tune On the Old Tax Fiddle
0/0
When the inland revenue gets an angry mistress's letter exposing a man named Toby as a tax cheat, they quietly put pressure on him. Toby panics, and h...
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Tune On the Old Tax Fiddle
1957
Strangers' Meeting
0/0
A fateful Stranger's Meeting leads to a maelstrom of crime, deception and murder in this 64-minute British programmer. The beautiful Delphi Lawrence h...
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Strangers' Meeting
1958
A Night to Remember
7.648/286
The sinking of the Titanic is presented in a highly realistic fashion in this tense British drama. The disaster is portrayed largely from the perspect...
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A Night to Remember
1959
The Running Jumping & Standing Still Film
5.397/29
A short film without any direct action designed more as an experiment, with disjointed comic scenes with no common thread.
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The Running Jumping & Standing Still Film
1963
Nurse on Wheels
5.8/15
Quietly competent young Joanna moves with her scatterbrain mother to a country village to take up her first job as District Nurse. She soon overcomes...
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Nurse on Wheels
1982
Treasure Island
10/1
Intrigue...comedy...adventure...unforgettable characters and exotic settings - the legendary story of Treasure Island comes to life in this colourful...
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Treasure Island
1977
Joseph Andrews
4.8/11
Lady Booby alias 'Belle', the lively wife of the fat landed squire Sir Thomas Booby, has a lusty eye on the attractive, intelligent villager Joseph An...
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Joseph Andrews
1970
The Adventures of Gerard
5.611/9
Based on satirical short stories by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle about a vain, egotistical Etienne Gerard, a French brigadier serving during the Napoleonic...
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The Adventures of Gerard
1969
Two Gentlemen Sharing
4/1
An insecure Briton and a Briton of Jamaican descent share a London apartment together.
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Two Gentlemen Sharing
1972
Go for a Take
8.5/2
Two inept gamblers on the run from their debts and a gang of crooks find refuge in a film studio.
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Go for a Take
1965
Cup Fever
8.2/4
The children of Barton United are trying to win the cup in their local football (soccer) league. Nasty councillor Mr Bates doesn't like them and wants...
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Cup Fever
1970
Simon Simon
6/2
A comedy short with very little speaking. Graham Stark and John Junkin have a new elevated platform to work with but still manage to get into lots of...
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Simon Simon
1960
The League of Gentlemen
7/101
Involuntarily-retired Colonel Hyde recruits seven other dissatisfied ex-servicemen for a special project. Each of the men has a skeleton in the cupboa...
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The League of Gentlemen
1980
Rhubarb Rhubarb
7.7/6
During a game of golf between a police inspector and a vicar the inspector cheats by having a constable move his ball into favourable positions and th...
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Rhubarb Rhubarb
1969
The Big Flame
5/2
After a prolonged industrial dispute in the Liverpool Docks, the striking workers reject management demands of a return to work and decide instead to...
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The Big Flame
1968
Negatives
5.7/7
A couple's bizarre romantic relationship is disrupted by the intrusion of a third person.
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Negatives
1968
Negatives
5.7/7
A couple's bizarre romantic relationship is disrupted by the intrusion of a third person.
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Negatives
1972
Carry On Christmas (or Carry On Stuffing)
6.8/6
Two unforeseen problems meant that many fans consider this the weakest Christmas special. Firstly, Talbot Rothwell became ill whilst writing the scrip...
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Carry On Christmas (or Carry On Stuffing)
1970
The Long Distance Piano Player
0/0
The first Play for Today is the story of one man's obsession (to win the world long distance piano playing record) and the battle for good (his wife)...
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The Long Distance Piano Player
1990
The Krays
6.07/115
Twins Ronnie and Reggie Kray are raised in east London, under the influence of their hateful but doting mother Violet. As they grow up, Ronnie's viole...
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The Krays
1979
The Prisoner of Zenda
5.7/37
Anthony Hope's classic tale gets a decidedly 'un-classic' treatment at the hands of Peter Sellers. Following the story somewhat, friends of the new Ki...
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The Prisoner of Zenda
1980
S.O.S. Titanic
5.9/41
The Titanic disaster as seen through the eyes of one couple in each of the three classes on board.
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S.O.S. Titanic
1973
Vinegar Trip
0/0
The title is taken from a Liverpool saying, "Off on a vinegar trip," which is applied to a person behaving strangely. Barrie plays Sammy Chester, a pe...
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Vinegar Trip
1964
Prisoner and Escort
0/0
Private Jupp is under arrest for a long list of charges and is being escorted by train to Catterick Camp. A girl is invited to share their compartment...
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Prisoner and Escort
1993
Tommy Cooper - The Magic Touch
0/0
Tommy Cooper, the hapless magician who was in a league of his own, is joined here by a star-studded selection of guests in previously unseen extracts...
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Tommy Cooper - The Magic Touch
1961
Carry On Regardless
6.2/52
After a bunch of no-hopers approaches an employment agency, the anarchy mounts as they do a series of odd jobs, including a chimp's tea party, trying...
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Carry On Regardless
1960
Doctor in Love
5.2/17
Doctors Burke and Hare leave the confines of St Swithins for the world of general practice, stopping off on the way as patients at the Foulness Anti-c...
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Doctor in Love
1959
Carry On Nurse
6.4/61
In Haven Hospital, a certain men's ward is causing more havoc than the whole hospital altogether. The formidable Matron's debut gives everyone a chill...
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Carry On Nurse
1962
Lawrence of Arabia
7.995/3364
During World War I, English officer Thomas Edward 'T.E.' Lawrence sets out to unite and lead the diverse, often warring, Arab tribes to fight the Turk...
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Lawrence of Arabia
1964
Daylight Robbery
0/0
Three children are locked in a store by accident. They help catch a gang who break into the store the same day in order to get to the bank next door.
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Daylight Robbery
1966
The Wrong Box
6.45/60
In Victorian England, a fortune now depends on which of two brothers outlives the other—or can be made to have seemed to do so.
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The Wrong Box
1979
Big Jim and the Figaro Club
0/0
In the early 1950s 'College' comes down from Cambridge to work for the summer with his old mates on the buildings - only to find a seething passion gr...
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Big Jim and the Figaro Club
1967
Double Trouble
4.9/35
When singer Guy Lambert goes on tour in Europe, he is pursued by two beautiful women, bumbling jewel thieves, and a mysterious killer.
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Double Trouble
1974
The Changeling
7/1
Sexual passion breeds violence in the Thomas Middleton and William Rowley written tale of a beautiful woman who falls in love with a sea-captain. Fil...
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The Changeling
1973
Digby, the Biggest Dog in the World
4.6/18
Digby consumes a bowl of Project X, a liquid growth formula. Soon, he becomes a sheepdog of gigantic size!
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Digby, the Biggest Dog in the World
1968
The Charge of the Light Brigade
6.083/72
During the Crimean War between Britain and Russia in the 1850s, a British cavalry division, led by the overbearing Lord Cardigan, engages in an infamo...
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The Charge of the Light Brigade
1996
Sharpe's Regiment
7/28
Told his battalion is to be split up due to lack of recruits at home, Sharpe and Harper return to England to investigate. What should have been a simp...
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Sharpe's Regiment
1991
Let Him Have It
6.66/47
In 1950s England, slow-witted Derek Bentley falls in with a group of petty criminals led by Chris Craig, a teenager with a fondness for American gangs...
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Let Him Have It
1962
Go to Blazes
6.3/9
A gang of aspiring bank robbers involve themselves with arsonists and purchase their very own fire truck in an attempt to create the ultimate diversio...
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Go to Blazes
1957
The One That Got Away
6.818/55
Based on the true story of Oberleutnant Franz von Werra, the only German prisoner of war captured in Britain to escape back to Germany during the Seco...
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The One That Got Away
1964
The Comedy Man
6.9/7
A middle-aged stock actor goes to London to try the big time. After much frustration, he lands a job doing TV commercials, gaining wealth and recognit...
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The Comedy Man
1957
The Long Haul
5.667/27
An American ex-GI takes a job as a truck driver to support his British war bride Connie. It isn't long, however, before Harry is blackmailed into join...
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The Long Haul
1971
Will Amelia Quint Continue Writing 'A Gnome Called Shorthouse'?
8/1
They write so many innocent words, but what are the authors of your children's stories really like?
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Will Amelia Quint Continue Writing 'A Gnome Called Shorthouse'?
1956
Three Men in a Boat
6.3/9
Three London gentlemen take a vacation rowing down the Thames, encountering various mishaps and misadventures along the way.
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Three Men in a Boat
1962
Crooks Anonymous
5.9/23
A former burglar trying to go straight joins a rehabilitation scheme using much the same methods as AA. Through the process, he takes work as a depart...
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Crooks Anonymous
1962
The Longest Day
7.61/1003
The retelling of June 6, 1944, from the perspectives of the Germans, US, British, Canadians, and the Free French. Marshall Erwin Rommel, touring the d...
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The Longest Day
1970
The Rise and Rise of Michael Rimmer
5.882/17
Fresh-faced young Michael Rimmer worms his way into an opinion poll company and is soon running the place. He uses this as a springboard to get into p...
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The Rise and Rise of Michael Rimmer
1965
Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines or How I Flew from London to Paris in 25 Hours 11 Minutes
6.8/191
In order to boost circulation of his newspaper, Lord Rawnsley announces an air race and offers £10,000 to the first person who can fly across the Engl...
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Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines or How I Flew from London to Paris in 25 Hours 11 Minutes
1976
Jumbo
0/0
"1975 was the year of the disaster movie, yeah? So what stops 1976 being the year of the disastrous disaster movie?"
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Jumbo
1972
Young Winston
6.196/51
This historical drama is an account of the early life of British politician Winston Churchill, including his childhood years, his time as a war corres...
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Young Winston
1998
What's a Carry On?
7.8/5
Documentary commemorating the 40th anniversary of the 'Carry On' comedy film series. Archive clips and out-takes are mixed with interviews with the ca...
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What's a Carry On?
1963
Into the Dark
0/0
A 1963 TV play written by Ken Taylor and broadcast as an episode of Armchair Theatre.
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Into the Dark
1961
No Love for Johnnie
6.2/8
Johnnie Byrne is a member of the British Parliament. In his 40s, he's feeling frustrated with his life and his personal as well as professional proble...
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No Love for Johnnie
1970
Hamlet
0/0
Hamlet suspects his uncle has murdered his father to claim the throne of Denmark and the hand of Hamlet's mother, but the prince cannot decide whether...
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