Jim Norton

Actor Jan 4 (age 88) Dublin, Ireland 1956–2021 (65 year career)

6.3 avg rating

Biography

Jim Norton (born 4 January 1938) is an Irish stage, film and television character actor, known for his work in the theatre, most notably in Conor McPherson's The Seafarer, and on television as Bishop Brennan in the sitcom Father Ted.

Known For

Film

American History X

Randy

Film

Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

Mr Mason

Film

The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas

Herr Liszt

Film

Water for Elephants

Camel

Film

Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close

Old Mr. Black

Film

Mary Poppins Returns

Mr. Binnacle

Film

Straw Dogs

Chris Cawsey

Film

The Boy

Mr. Heelshire

Filmography

Acting (94)

Movies (50)

The Secret Garden: The Musical

2021

as Ben Weatherstaff

The Dead Hands of Dublin

as Narrator (voice)

The Last Right

as Padraig

Prisoners of the Moon

2019

as Arthur Rudolph

Mary Poppins Returns

as Mr. Binnacle

The Boy

as Mr. Heelshire

National Theatre Live: Hamlet

2015

as Polonius

7.5

National Theatre Live: Of Mice and Men

as Candy

Jimmy's Hall

as Father Sheridan

Homemade

as Tommy

Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close

as Old Mr. Black

Water for Elephants

as Camel

Small, Far Away: The World of Father Ted

The Eclipse

as Malachy

The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas

2008

as Herr Liszt

7.8

Uncle Bill's Barrel

2008

as Older Michael

Driving Lessons

as Mr. Fincham

Stan

as Stan Laurel

Oyster Farmer

as Mumbles

Conspiracy of Silence

2003

4.4

Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

2002

as Mr Mason

7.7

The Hound of the Baskervilles

2002

as Coroner

6.1

Boxed

2002

as Father Moran

On the Nose

as Patrick Cassidy

Rough for Theatre II

as A

Mad About Mambo

Aladdin and the Adventure of All Time

as (voice)

A Love Divided

Sunset Heights

as Sam Magee, The Preacher

American History X

as Randy

Into the West

as Superintendant O'Mara

6.4

Memoirs of an Invisible Man

1992

as Dr. Bernard Wachs

5.9

Midnight's Child

1992

as Dr. Stefan Grossbart

4.4

Even Hitler Had a Girlfriend

as Marcus's Dad

Hidden Agenda

as Brodie

The Temptation of Eileen Hughes

1988

as Bernard McAuley

Home Cooking

1986

as Gordon

Sakharov

1984

as Roy Medvedev

7.0

Grass

1982

as Arthur

Cry of the Innocent

1980

as Jasper Tooms

5.0

Juno and the Paycock

1980

as "Joxer" Daly

Light

1979

as Jack Parry

3.5

The Legion Hall Bombing

1978

as Detective Sergeant

Waiting at the Field Gate

1975

as Rainmarsh

Screamer

1974

as The Man

7.5

The Death of Captain Doughty

1973

as Francis Drake

Adolf Hitler - My Part in His Downfall

1973

as Pongo

4.8

George

1972

as Smedley

Straw Dogs

1971

as Chris Cawsey

7.2

The Face of Fu Manchu

1965

as Mathius

6.1

Television (44)

Dalgliesh

as Father Barnes

Dinner with Dani

as Himself

River

as Michael Bennigan

Elementary

as Sir James Walter

Hell's Kitchen

as Self

The Royal

as Rory

Waking the Dead

as David Dusniak

Midsomer Murders

as Edward Canning

The Treacle People

as Brendan Robinson (voice) / Silas Mitton (voice) / Digger (voice)

8.7

Father Ted

1995

as Bishop Len Brennan

Babylon 5

as Ombuds Wellington

Wycliffe

as Owens

Frasier

as Wentworth

Peak Practice

as Father Matthew Corlon

6.1

Maigret

1992

7.1

Agatha Christie's Poirot

as Roger Havering

Stay Lucky

Star Trek: The Next Generation

1987

as Holodeck Albert Einstein

Lovejoy

as Father Xavier

Unnatural Causes

as Gordon

T-Bag

as Shopkeeper / Gardner

5.5

The Bill

1984

6.7

Mr. Palfrey of Westminster

as Robert Sanding

Cheers

as Henderson

Nanny

Tales of the Unexpected

as Dr Mellish

Minder

as O'Brady

Strangers

as Cathal Slattery

1990

The Sweeney

as Phil Harrister

Rumpole of the Bailey

as F.I.G. Newton

Churchill's People

as Cuthbert

Fall of Eagles

as Kerensky

Thriller

as The Man

Crown Court

as Jeremy Williams

Van der Valk

as Eddy

The Adventurer

as Morgan

Colditz

as Capt. James Porteous

Justice

as Alan Cartwright

Play for Today

as The Detective Sergeant

6.3

Never Mind the Quality, Feel the Width

1967

3.5

Insurrection

1966

as Tom Clarke

Tony Awards

as Self - Winner

Armchair Theatre

as Dug Whitby