Jim Norton

Biography

Jim Norton 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

Straw Dogs

25 November, 1971

Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

13 November, 2002

Memoirs of an Invisible Man

28 February, 1992

Cry of the Innocent

15 June, 1980

Waiting at the Field Gate

3 April, 1975

Oyster Farmer

10 September, 2004

The Eclipse

24 April, 2009

Conspiracy of Silence

15 May, 2003

Boxed

23 August, 2002

Stan

6 June, 2006

Rough for Theatre II

1 January, 2000

Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close

25 December, 2011

Aladdin and the Adventure of All Time

13 June, 2000

The Temptation of Eileen Hughes

3 April, 1988

Jimmy's Hall

30 May, 2014

Water for Elephants

15 April, 2011

American History X

1 July, 1998

The Last Right

6 December, 2019

Sakharov

20 June, 1984

Driving Lessons

6 September, 2006

Mad About Mambo

4 April, 2000

The Boy

22 January, 2016

The Secret Garden: The Musical

6 May, 2021

National Theatre Live: Of Mice and Men

6 November, 2014

National Theatre Live: Hamlet

15 October, 2015

Hidden Agenda

21 November, 1990

Small, Far Away: The World of Father Ted

1 January, 2011

Uncle Bill's Barrel

18 October, 2008

The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas

7 May, 2008

The Hound of the Baskervilles

26 December, 2002

Sunset Heights

4 June, 1999

Midnight's Child

21 April, 1992

Mary Poppins Returns

13 December, 2018

Into the West

23 October, 1992

Adolf Hitler - My Part in His Downfall

12 June, 1973

On the Nose

23 October, 2001

The Legion Hall Bombing

22 August, 1978

Prisoners of the Moon

19 July, 2019

Even Hitler Had a Girlfriend

25 December, 1991

Homemade

30 September, 2013

Light

13 March, 1979

The Dead Hands of Dublin

9 July, 2020

Home Cooking

8 November, 1986

The Face of Fu Manchu

6 August, 1965

Screamer

2 November, 1974

Star Trek: The Next Generation - Descent

21 June, 1993

Grass

18 December, 1982

The Death of Captain Doughty

28 March, 1973

A Love Divided

14 May, 1999

Wycliffe

1994

Colditz

1972

Star Trek: The Next Generation

1987

Father Ted

1995

The Bill

1984

Tales of the Unexpected

1979

The Sweeney

1975

Frasier

1993

Babylon 5

1994

Rumpole of the Bailey

1975

Lovejoy

1986

Van der Valk

1972

Never Mind the Quality, Feel the Width

1967

1990

1977

Agatha Christie's Poirot

1989

Nanny

1981

Hunter's Walk

1973

Maigret

1992

Thriller

1973

The Adventurer

1972

Unnatural Causes

1986

Minder

1979

Elementary

2012

Tony Awards

1956

Dalgliesh

2021

Peak Practice

1993

Crown Court

1972

Van der Valk

1972

Insurrection

1966

Stay Lucky

1989

Waking the Dead

2001

The Royal

2003

Justice

1971

Midsomer Murders

1997

River

2015

Babylon 5

1994

Babylon 5

1994

The Treacle People

1996

T-Bag

1985

Play for Today

1970

Play for Today

1970

Cheers

1982

Tales of the Unexpected

1979

Hell's Kitchen

2005

Dinner with Dani

2018