Jack Norton

Jack Norton

Birthday: 2 September 1889, Brooklyn, New York, USA

Birth Name: Mortimer J. Naughton

Pencil-mustachioed character actor in Hollywood films of the '30s and '40s, cast perennially as a reeling, incoherent, comic drunk, often clad in evening clothes and satin high hat. In an effort to make his characterizations convincing, he often followed drunks and watched their movements closely in order to copy them. In real life, he wa... Show more »

Pencil-mustachioed character actor in Hollywood films of the '30s and '40s, cast perennially as a reeling, incoherent, comic drunk, often clad in evening clothes and satin high hat. In an effort to make his characterizations convincing, he often followed drunks and watched their movements closely in order to copy them. In real life, he was a total abstainer from alcohol. Show less «

Jack Norton's FILMOGRAPHY
as Actor (33)

The Story of Dr. Wassell

The Sin of Harold Diddlebock

Shadows Over Chinatown

The Hoodlum Saint

The Naughty Nineties

Her Highness and the Bellboy

The Scarlet Clue

Hail the Conquering Hero

The Miracle of Morgans Creek

Charlie Chan in The Chinese Cat

Here Come the Waves

The Palm Beach Story

The Ghost Breakers

The Roaring Twenties

A Day at the Races

Gold Diggers of 1937

After the Thin Man

Ruggles of Red Gap

The Gilded Lily

Finishing School

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