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Wisdom gained celebrity status in lands as far apart as South America, [[Iran]] and many [[Eastern Bloc]] countries, particularly in [[Albania]] where his films were the only ones with Western actors permitted to be shown by dictator [[Enver Hoxha]].<ref name="TelegraphObit">{{cite news |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/culture-obituaries/film-obituaries/8042823/Sir-Norman-Wisdom.html|title=Sir Norman Wisdom|date=5 October 2010|access-date=6 October 2010|newspaper=[[The Daily Telegraph]] |location=London, UK}}</ref> [[Charlie Chaplin]] once referred to Wisdom as his "favourite clown".<ref name="BBCFool" />
Wisdom later forged a career on [[Broadway theatre|Broadway]] in New York City, alongside stars such as [[Mandy Patinkin]] and as a television actor, winning critical acclaim for his dramatic role of a dying cancer patient in the television play ''Going Gently'' in 1981. He toured Australia and South Africa.<ref name="GuardianObit" /> After the 1986 [[Chernobyl disaster]], a hospice was named in his honour.<ref name="TelegraphObit" /> In 1995, he was given the [[Freedom of the City]] of London and of [[Tirana]].<ref name="TelegraphObit" /> The same year, he was appointed [[Order of the British Empire|OBE]] and was knighted five years later.<ref name="TelegraphObit" />
== Early life ==
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