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Acting

Jim Norton

Career: Active from 1966 to 2020, with up to 2 main titles a year.

Leading roles: 15
top three billing

Average score: 60/100

Highest rated: National Theatre Live: Of Mice and Men
80/100

What stands out

Compared with the average well-known movie, over 53 of their titles. Select a trait to filter titles.

Jim Norton Catalog average

Rarely in their work

Adrenaline
3.5, average 4.8
Coming of Age
2.0, average 3.0
Pop Culture
1.3, average 2.2
Physical Comedy
1.6, average 2.4

Main genres

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Recurring tags

Character-Driven 3
Psychological Thriller 2
Social Realism 2
Psychological Tension 2

Works often with

People in at least two of their main titles.

Movies and TV shows

99

Type

Role

Score

Decade

Genre

Group by

2020s

3 titles · average score 75

Dalgliesh

75

TV show · as Father Barnes

The Secret Garden: The Musical

as Ben Weatherstaff

The Dead Hands of Dublin

as Narrator (voice)

2010s

12 titles · average score 69

Prisoners of the Moon

as Arthur Rudolph

The Last Right

58

as Padraig

Mary Poppins Returns

68

as Binnacle

The Boy

45

as Mr. Heelshire

National Theatre Live: Hamlet

79

as Polonius

River

91

TV show · as Michael Bennigan

Jimmy's Hall

68

as Father Sheridan

National Theatre Live: Of Mice and Men

80

as Candy

Homemade

as Tommy

Elementary

82

TV show · as Sir James Walter

Water for Elephants

62

as Camel

Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close

54

as Old Mr. Black

2000s

15 titles · average score 57

The Eclipse

64

as Malachy

The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas

68

as Herr Liszt

Uncle Bill's Barrel

as Older Michael

Stan

62

as Stan Laurel

Driving Lessons

58

as Mr. Fincham

Oyster Farmer

49

as Mumbles

Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

74

as Mr Mason

Boxed

as Father Moran

The Hound of the Baskervilles

62

as Coroner

Waking the Dead

50

TV show · as David Dusniak

On the Nose

54

as Patrick Cassidy

Rough for Theatre II

as A

1990s

16 titles · average score 68

Sunset Heights

as Sam Magee, The Preacher

American History X

79

as Randy

Midsomer Murders

80

TV show · as Edward Canning

The Treacle People

TV show · as Brendan Robinson (voice) / Silas Mitton (voice) / Digger (voice)

Father Ted

90

TV show · as Bishop Len Brennan

Babylon 5

70

TV show · as G'Quan / Dr. Lazarenn

Wycliffe

70

TV show · as Owens

Frasier

85

TV show · as Wentworth

Peak Practice

65

TV show · as Father Matthew Corlon

Memoirs of an Invisible Man

46

as Dr. Bernard Wachs

Midnight's Child

42

as Dr. Stefan Grossbart

Maigret

77

TV show

1980s

18 titles · average score 67

Agatha Christie's Poirot

84

TV show · as Roger Havering

Stay Lucky

TV show

The Temptation of Eileen Hughes

as Bernard McAuley

Star Trek: The Next Generation

68

TV show · as Holodeck Albert Einstein

Lovejoy

50

TV show · as Father Xavier

Unnatural Causes

TV show · as Gordon

Screen Two

68

TV show · as Bernard McAuley

The Bill

77

TV show

Mr. Palfrey of Westminster

67

TV show · as Robert Sanding

Cheers

84

TV show · as Henderson

Nanny

TV show

Cry of the Innocent

42

as Jasper Tooms

1970s

27 titles · average score 70

Minder

75

TV show · as O'Brady

Tales of the Unexpected

72

TV show · as H.A.K. Bates / Dr Mellish

Light

as Jack Parry

The Sweeney

80

TV show · as Phil Harrister

Rumpole of the Bailey

77

TV show · as F.I.G. Newton

Screamer

69

as The Man

Thriller

74

TV show · as The Man

Crown Court

65

TV show · as Jeremy Williams

Van der Valk

66

TV show · as Hanson / Eddy

Colditz

80

TV show · as Capt. James Porteous

Straw Dogs

76

as Chris Cawsey

Play for Today

72

TV show · as The Detective Sergeant / Jack Parry

1960s

7 titles · average score 65

ITV Playhouse

TV show · as Brian Snow

Never Mind the Quality, Feel the Width

TV show

Insurrection

TV show · as Tom Clarke

Thirty-Minute Theatre

TV show · as Tom

The Face of Fu Manchu

65

as Mathius

TV show · as Johnny Franks

The Wednesday Play

TV show · as Rodney

1950s

1 title · average score 68

Armchair Theatre

68

TV show · as Dug Whitby