Jack Norton
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| AKA: John Norton |
| Born: 09/02/1889 Brooklyn, New York City, NY |
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Biography: A confirmed teetotaller, mustachioed American actor Jack Norton nonetheless earned cinematic immortality for his innumerable film appearances as a comic drunk. A veteran vaudevillian - he appeared in a comedy act with his wife Lillian - and stage performer, Norton entered films in 1934, often playing stone-cold sober characters; in one Leon Errol two-reeler, One Too Many, he was a stern nightcourt judge sentencing Errol on a charge of public inebriation! From Cockeyed Cavaliers (1934) onward, however, the Jack Norton that audiences loved began staggering his way from one film to another; it seemed for a while that no film could have a scene in a nightclub or salloon without Norton, three sheets to the wind and in top hat and tails, leaning precariously against the bar. To perfect his act, Norton would follow genuine drunks for several city blocks, memorizing each nuance of movement; to avoid becoming too involved in his roles, the actor drank only ginger ale and bicarbonate of soda. |
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DVDs that Jack Norton appeared in...
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- 02/06/2007 - Going My Way
- 05/30/2006 - Marked Woman
- 09/06/2005 - The Miracle of Morgan's Creek
- 02/01/2005 - The Palm Beach Story
- 01/25/2005 - The Roaring Twenties
- 07/06/2004 - The Chinese Cat
- 07/06/2004 - Charlie Chan: The Scarlet Clue
- 06/22/2004 - The Kansan
- 06/01/2004 - The Spoilers
- 05/18/2004 - Road Show