ABSTRACT
It is surprising, especially given the number of great clowns who emerged in the wake of World War II, that only one was to make a significant and lasting impact in British cinema and that was Norman Wisdom. Others shone as character comedians, and yet others developed their careers on stage, radio and television, but only Wisdom lasted the course in the cinema with a series of films built around the comic character that he had developed while working on the stage and on television and which he named the Gump.
