Barry Norman

Barry Norman

writer, actor

Barry Norman was born on Aug 21, 1933 in UK. Barry Norman's big-screen debut came with Hollywood Greats - Season 1 directed by Margaret Sharp in 1977, strarring Self - Presenter. Barry Norman is known for Hollywood Greats directed by Margaret Sharp, Barry Norman stars as Self - Presenter and Jonathan Ross as Self - Presenter. The most recent award Barry Norman achieved is London Critics Circle Film Awards. The upcoming new tvshow Barry Norman plays is Talking Pictures - Season 1 which will be released on Jan 25, 1988.

Barry Norman was the son of Leslie Norman, a British film and television director, producer and writer, and his wife Elizabeth. He was educated at a state primary school and at Highgate School, then an all-boys independent school in North London. He did not go to university, but instead began his career in journalism at the Kensington News, later spending a period in South Africa where he developed a hostility to the situation created there by the emergence of apartheid.By the 1960s, Norman was a prominent journalist, and show business editor of the Daily Mail until 1971, when he was made redundant. Subsequently, he wrote a column each Wednesday for The Guardian, also contributing leader columns to the newspaper.He presented BBC1's Film programme from 1972, becoming the sole presenter the following year. Norman's involvement was broken in 1982 by a brief spell presenting Omnibus. After having returned to the Film series in 1983, Norman became increasingly irritated by the BBC's reluctance to screen the programme at a regular time, and in 1998 he finally accepted an offer to work for BSkyB, where he remained for three years. Jonathan Ross took his place as the BBC programme's presenter.

  • Birthday

    Aug 21, 1933
  • Place of Birth

    Lambeth, London, England, UK

Known For

Awards

2 wins & 0 nominations

London Critics Circle Film Awards
1995
For services to film reviewing.
Winner - Special Achievement Award
BAFTA Awards
1981
Richard Dimbleby Award
Winner - BAFTA TV Award

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