- Title: Norbert Smith - A Life
- Date: 3rd November 1989
- Summary: MELVYN BRAGG WITH THE HELP OF HARRY ENFIELD LOOKS BACK AT THE UPS, DOWNS, DISAST ES AND OCCASIONAL ABJECT CATASTROPHESIN THE CAREER OF THE MOST COMPLETE BASTION OF THE BRITISH FILM INDUSTRY - SIR NORBERT SMITH; A MAN WHO HAS LONG BEEN ONE OF OUR MOST POPULAR LIKED TRAGEDIANS AND WHO THIS WEEK CELEBRATES HIS EIGHTYISH B IRTHDAY. THIS MAJOR DOCUMENTARY DEMONSTRATES THE FULL RANGE OF HIS ACTING AND H IS ALCOHOL PROBLEM, WITH EXTRACTS FROM MANY OF HIS FILMS; FROM HIS FIRST APPEARA NCE WITH WILL SILLY IN "OH MR BANK ROBBER" (1936), TO HIS LAST COMPLETED FILM C ELEBRATING THE BRITISH PEACE MOVEMENT - "CARRY ON BANGING".
- Description:HARRY ENFIELD PLAYS NORBERT SMITH,A FAMOUS ACTOR. THE PROGRAMME TAKES THE FORMOF A TELEVISION RETROSPECIVE OF HIS WORK FOR HIS 80TH BIRTHDAY. IT RECALLS ALL HIS OLD PALS AND LOOKS BACK ON HIS LONG CAREER.
- Broadcaster:Channel 4
- Collection: Channel 4
- Genre:Documentary and Factual
- Producer:Hat Trick Productions Ltd.
- Programme Episode:Episode 1
- Transmission Date:03/11/1989
- Rights:On Request
- Decade: 1980s