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Norman Rossington is a Actor British born on 24 december 1928 at Liverpool (United-kingdom)

Norman Rossington

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Birth name Norman Rossington
Nationality United-kingdom
Birth 24 december 1928 at Liverpool (United-kingdom)
Death 21 may 1999 (at 70 years) at Manchester (United-kingdom)

Norman Rossington (24 December 1928 – 21 May 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.

Biography

Norman Rossington gave his hobbies as woodwork, skiing, golf and languages. He was married twice. His second marriage, on 19 January 1999 to Cindy Barnes, lasted until his death aged 70 a few months later. Rossington spent many of his last years living in a small terraced house in Hale, Cheshire. He who would cycle around the village daily and was pleased to talk to those he met with tales from his career. He died in Manchester after a six-month battle with cancer. The village of Hale came out to pay their respects following his death.

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David Lodge
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Peter Sellers
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Graham Stark
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Filmography of Norman Rossington (48 films)

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Sharpe's Regiment, 1h40
Origin United-kingdom
Genres War, Action, Adventure, Historical
Themes Political films, Napoleonic Wars films, French Revolution films
Actors Sean Bean, Daragh O'Malley, Julian Fellowes, Caroline Langrishe, Abigail Cruttenden, Michael Cochrane
Roles Horatio Havercamp
Rating78% 3.9381253.9381253.9381253.9381253.938125
It is 1813. The First Battalion of the South Essex Regiment has suffered terrible losses in the fighting in Spain and the entire regiment is in danger of being disbanded as a result. Major Sharpe (Sean Bean) and Sergeant Major Harper (Daragh O'Malley) are sent back to England to find out why replacements have not been sent. Sharpe is told that the Second Battalion of the South Essex is drawing pay for over 700 soldiers, but when he arrives at the Second Battalion's barracks, he finds only eleven men, even though there is regular recruiting for the regiment. Sharpe senses something is amiss and is determined to get to the bottom of things.
Let Him Have It, 1h55
Directed by Peter Medak
Genres Drama, Biography, Crime
Themes Prison films, Films about capital punishment
Actors Christopher Eccleston, Paul Reynolds, Tom Courtenay, Eileen Atkins, Tom Bell, Edward Hardwicke
Roles Postman
Rating71% 3.5946353.5946353.5946353.5946353.594635
The film is based on the true story of Derek Bentley. Within the film, Bentley (Eccleston) is an illiterate young adult with developmental disabilities who falls into a gang led by a younger teenager named Chris Craig (Reynolds). The two become trapped by the police, who tell Chris to put down his gun. Bentley says, "Let him have it, Chris." Chris begins firing, killing one officer and wounding another. Because he is a minor (under 18), Chris is given a minor sentence, but Bentley, although he did not shoot anyone, is sentenced to death, on the basis that his statement to Chris was an instigation to begin shooting.
The Krays
The Krays (1990)
, 1h59
Directed by Peter Medak
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Thriller, Biography, Action, Adventure, Historical, Crime
Themes Films about families, Films about sexuality, LGBT-related films, Gangster films, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related film
Actors Martin Kemp, Gary Kemp, Billie Whitelaw, Tom Bell, Martin Kemp, Susan Fleetwood
Roles Shopkeeper
Rating65% 3.2966453.2966453.2966453.2966453.296645
The film charts the lives of the Kray twins from childhood to adult life. The plot focuses on the relationship between the twins and their doting mother (Whitelaw). Ronald (Gary Kemp) is the dominant one, influencing his brother Reginald (Martin Kemp) to perform several acts of violence.
House of the Long Shadows, 1h40
Directed by Pete Walker
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Thriller, Comedy, Horror comedy, Horror
Themes Ghost films, Comedy horror films
Actors Vincent Price, Christopher Lee, Peter Cushing, John Carradine, Sheila Keith, Julie Peasgood
Roles Station Master
Rating62% 3.1006453.1006453.1006453.1006453.100645
Kenneth Magee (Desi Arnaz, Jr.), a young writer, bets $20,000 that he can write a Wuthering Heights-calibre novel in 24 hours. To get in the mood for the undertaking, he goes to a deserted Welsh manor. Upon his arrival, however, Magee discovers that the manor is not as empty as he was told. Still there are Lord Grisbane (Carradine) and his daughter, Victoria (Sheila Keith), who have been maintaining the mansion on their own. As the stormy night progresses, more people come to the mansion, including Lord Grisbane's sons Lionel (Price) and Sebastian (Cushing), Magee's publisher's secretary, Mary Norton (Julie Peasgood), and Corrigan (Lee), a potential buyer of the property.
S.O.S. Titanic, 2h24
Directed by William Hale
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action, Historical
Themes La fin du monde, Seafaring films, Transport films, RMS Titanic in fiction, Disaster films, American disaster films, Films about seafaring accidents or incidents
Actors David Janssen, Cloris Leachman, Susan Saint James, David Warner, Ian Holm, Helen Mirren
Roles Master-at-Arms Thomas King
Rating61% 3.0969053.0969053.0969053.0969053.096905
Le Titanic quitte Southampton le 10 avril 1912. Le film suit différents passagers que sont, en première classe John Jacob Astor et son épouse ainsi que le couple Marvin, en voyage de noces. En deuxième, le film suit Lawrence Beesley, ensuite auteur d'un ouvrage sur le naufrage. En troisième classe, l'histoire se focalise sur un groupe d'émigrants irlandais.
Rhubarb Rhubarb, 28minutes
Directed by Eric Sykes
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Comedy
Actors Jimmy Edwards, Eric Sykes, Bob Todd, Charlie Drake, Bill Fraser, Nicholas Bond-Owen
Rating65% 3.2857553.2857553.2857553.2857553.285755
A police inspector is so intent on winning a round of golf against a vicar, despite his lack of ability at the game, that he employs his constable to furtively disentangle his ball from the odd spots in which it usually comes to rest - while his opponent looks for help from a higher power...
The Prisoner of Zenda, 1h48
Directed by Richard Quiney
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Action, Adventure
Themes Monde imaginaire, Politique, Political films, Films about royalty
Actors Peter Sellers, Lynne Frederick, Lionel Jeffries, Stuart Wilson, Britt Ekland, Elke Sommer
Rating52% 2.6099352.6099352.6099352.6099352.609935
King Rudolf IV (Sellers) dies in a balloon accident upon the celebration of his seventieth birthday. In order to secure the throne, General Sapt and his nephew Fritz travel to London, where the King's son, Rudolf V (Sellers), resides and lives through the day in London's pleasure establishments; but the King's demented half-brother Michael (Kemp), thinking that he is the better claimant, sends an assassin after them. Hansom cab driver Sydney (or Sidney) Frewin (Sellers), the new King's half-brother from an affair with a British actress, rescues Rudolf from an assassination attempt. Once his resemblance to the King is noticed, Frewin is hired by the general ostensibly as the King's coachman, but actually to play the role of decoy. The ruse is quickly uncovered, however, when during an attack by Michael's men the royal guardsmen address Frewin as their new king, and the two look-alikes get acquainted.
Joseph Andrews, 1h44
Directed by Tony Richardson
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Thriller, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Action, Adventure, Romance
Actors Ann-Margret, Peter Firth, Michael Hordern, Beryl Reid, Jim Dale, Peter C. Bull
Roles Gaffer Andrews
Rating56% 2.8010252.8010252.8010252.8010252.801025
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 Andrews, a Latin pupil and protégé of parson Adams, and makes him their footman. Joseph's heart belongs to a country girl, foundling Fanny Goodwill, but his masters take him on a fashionable trip to Bath, where the spoiled society comes mainly to see and be seen, yet Sir Thomas really seeks relief for his sick foot, but drowns in the famous Roman baths. When the all but grieving lady finds Joseph's Christian virtue and true love resist her lusting passes just as well as the many ladies who fancy her footman, she fires the boy. On his way back on foot, he falls prey to highwaymen who rob him of everything, even the clothes on his back. He is found and nursed by an innkeeper's maid, which stirs lusts there, again besides his honorable conduct, but is found by the good parson. Meanwhile the lady consents to her cousin marrying below their station when learning the fiancée is Joseph's sister, Pamela. The parson barely escapes a wicked gentleman's totally unjust, all but gentle justice after being accused of the attempted rape committed by a squire he actually prevented and comes to learn ever more about a relevant child-theft by gypsies, but meanwhile he, Joseph and Fanny fall prey again to the rapist's utter debauchery.
Digby, the Biggest Dog in the World, 1h28
Directed by Joseph McGrath
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Science fiction, Fantastic, Comedy, Adventure, Horror
Themes L'adolescence, Films about animals, Films about education, Films about children, Comedy science fiction films, Films about dogs, Children's films, Mise en scène d'un mammifère, Films about school violence
Actors Jim Dale, Spike Milligan, Angela Douglas, Norman Rossington, Victor Spinetti, Molly Urquhart
Roles Tom
Rating54% 2.701052.701052.701052.701052.70105
The story is about an Old English Sheepdog who accidentally drinks a liquid growth formula (a form of experimental fertilizer), and expands to gigantic proportions. Two criminals then steal Digby, and sell him to a circus. Digby, however, escapes by breaking his chains, and running at will across the countryside of the United Kingdom. The boy who owns Digby, as well as the scientist who worked on the growth formula, both realize that Digby is constantly increasing in size, and will soon cause enormous damage unless something is done immediately. The scientist finds out he has created a chemical that might reverse the growth formula. The British military, however, is attempting to solve the problem of the oversized sheepdog in their own way: by use of bombs and artillery.
Young Winston, 2h37
Directed by Richard Attenborough, Brian W. Cook
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, War, Biography, Action, Adventure
Themes Films set in Africa, Political films
Actors Simon Ward, Robert Shaw, Jack Hawkins, Anne Bancroft, Anthony Hopkins, Ian Holm
Rating66% 3.345173.345173.345173.345173.34517
Le scenario est largement inspiré du livre de Winston Churchill, My Early Life (Mes Aventures de Jeunesse) film raconte la jeunesse du futur Premier Ministre britannique .
Death Line
Death Line (1972)
, 1h27
Directed by Gary Sherman
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Horror
Themes Transport films, Rail transport films
Actors Donald Pleasence, Norman Rossington, Christopher Lee, David Ladd, Clive Swift, James Cossins
Roles Det.Sgt. Rogers
Rating58% 2.9484452.9484452.9484452.9484452.948445
A family of cannibals descended from Victorian railway workers, who were buried alive during construction, continue to dwell in the disused lines of the London Underground tube network. The last member of the family frequently visits the neighbouring Russell Square and Holborn stations to pick off passengers for food, then takes them back to the gruesome 'pantry' at an incomplete station. When the cannibal kidnaps and kills an important politician, he is hunted by a detective as well as an American college student and his English girlfriend who were the last to see the victim in the tube station. Donald Pleasence and Norman Rossington star as the investigating police officers. At the climax, when finally cornered and with his wife and the last of his family members dead from disease, the cannibal screams a corrupted form of "Mind the doors!", having picked it up parrot-fashion from the guards on the Underground trains.
Man in the Wilderness, 1h44
Directed by Richard C. Sarafian
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Action, Adventure, Western
Actors Richard Harris, John Huston, Prunella Ransome, Percy Herbert, Henry Wilcoxon, Norman Rossington
Roles Ferris
Rating67% 3.391223.391223.391223.391223.39122
A classic survival story, told partly through flashbacks to Zachary Bass's past. After being left for dead by his fellow trappers, he undergoes a series of trials and adventures as he slowly heals and equips himself while he tracks the expedition, apparently intent on retribution for his abandonment, while earning the respect of the Indians he encounters. However, when he finally confronts his fellow trappers and Captain Henry, he chooses not to seek revenge, but instead to focus on returning to his infant son.
The Adventures of Gerard, 1h31
Directed by Jerzy Skolimowski
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Comedy, Adventure
Themes Political films, Napoleonic Wars films, French Revolution films
Actors Peter McEnery, Claudia Cardinale, Eli Wallach, Jack Hawkins, Mark Burns, John Neville
Roles Sgt. Papilette (Hussars of Conflans)
Rating49% 2.475362.475362.475362.475362.47536
Vain, egotistical Etienne Gerard, a French brigadier, serves during the Napoleonic Wars. He thinks he's the best soldier and lover that ever lived and intends to prove it.