Norman Painting
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Norman Painting...a continuous role. Painting, a graduate of The University of Birmingham and Christ Church , University of Oxford, was already an interviewer, writer and broadcaster before he first appeared as Philip in The Archers. He first became a... In this article: Norman Painting, University of Birmingham, BBC Radio 4, University of Oxford, Bladder cancer, Heart failure, and David Turner |
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Telegraph.co.uk - UK news | October 29, 2009
Norman Painting star of The Archers dies aged 85
...but later chose acting and scriptwriting over academia. He chaired The Garden Game, a radio quiz programme, and was a regular guest on Call My Bluff and Quote... Unquote. He received an OBE in the 1976 New Year's Honours List, was...
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Norman Painting, who has died aged 85, was for more than half a century a lynchpin of Radio 4's The Archers, and the ... University, a former Oxford tutor ...
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... 1924, Warwickshire, Norman spent four years at the University of Birmingham, ... He is a contributor to The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, 2005. ...
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Norman Garstin [Irish Painter, 1847-1926] Guide to pictures of works by Norman Garstin in art ... Ashmolean Museum at the University of Oxford, UK ...
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Christ Church Picture Gallery holds a collection of over 200 old master paintings. ... Sealy, T. E. "Manley, Norman Washington (1893–1969)". ODNB. ...
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Christ Church Picture Gallery holds a collection of over 200 old master paintings. ... Bhutto, and Benazir Bhutto),[85] S. W. R. D. Bandaranaike of Sri Lanka, Norman ...
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Norman Bryson Bibliography
Norman Bryson Bibliography. University Of California ... Oxford: Sycamore Press, 1969. 10 pp. Bryson, Norman. Vision and Painting: The Logic of the Gaze. ...
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Norman Rockwell's Four Freedoms: Paintings that Inspired a Nation. Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art at the University of Oklahoma. Rebel at Gunpoint ...
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Norman Painting, OBE (Born April 23 1924 in Leamington Spa, Warwickshire) is an actor who has played Phil Archer in the BBC Radio 4 soap opera The Archers since the pilot episodes were aired on the BBC Midlands Home Service in summer 1950. The series went national on January 1 1951. He is the longest-serving member of the cast.
Painting, a graduate of The University of Birmingham and Christ Church, University of Oxford, was already an interviewer, writer and broadcaster before he first appeared as Philip in The Archers. He first became a script writer for the series in 1967, following in the footsteps of Edward J. Mason, Geoffrey Webb, David Turner and John Keir Cross. He wrote in his memoir of the programme, Forever Ambridge (Ambridge is the name of the fictional West Midlands village in which the programme is set) that he believed that Geoffrey Webb, who had died some time before, was guiding his hand as he wrote. He produced about 1,200 episodes under the pseudonym Bruno Milna. Artistic disagreements with the then editor, plus a general disillusionment with the BBC management, meant that he decided to retire from writing scripts in 1982 and to stick to just performing them.
Perhaps his most famous hour was on 22 September 1955, when Phil's wife, Grace Archer, was killed whilst trying to rescue a horse, Midnight, from a burning barn.
Phil has gone from being the lusty young romantic lead of the early episodes into a father and grandfather. Phil, like his father, Dan Archer, before him has now become a senior figure in the soap, almost a village patriarch. Ill health means Painting does not appear as often as he used to.
Painting also provided the voice for Bungle the Bear in Rainbow (TV series).
- Birth Date:
- April 23, 1924
- Birthplace:
- Leamington Spa, Warwickshire, England
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