As the 86 year-old comic Sir Norman Wisdom is once again greeted by vast crowds in Albania, Andrew Walker of the BBC's News Profiles Unit examines the enduring magic of one of Britain's greatest ...

GEORGE Bush finally found a country that welcomed him as a hero on a visit to Albania yesterday ... country's other bumbling national treasure Norman Wisdom. Wisdom shot to fame when all other ...

Wisdom was the only Western actor whose films were allowed to be shown in Albania under the dictatorship of Enver Hoxha. Norman Wisdom ... foot of Marshal Foch’s statue in Victoria.

Even at the end Norman Wisdom loved an audience ... He had had a series of strokes in the last six months. In Albania his passing was most keenly felt. Under the old Communist regime all ...

In a letter of condolence to the actor’s family, Sali Berisha, Albania’s prime minister ... of the dearest friends of our nation, Sir Norman Wisdom,” Mr Berisha wrote.

The prime minister of Albania declared his country was mourning "legend" Sir Norman Wisdom, who became an unlikely hero to his nation during its darkest days. Sir Norman, who died peacefully in ...

In a letter of condolence to Norman ... with the Wisdom family, the friends and fans of their most beloved entertainer,” he added. The slapstick star enjoyed a cult following in Albania, where ...

British slapstick comedian Norman Wisdom was the only Western entertainer shown on Albanian television during the grim years under paranoid dictator Enver Hoxha, who ruled Albania from 1941 to 1985.

But in Albania he is a cult hero whose death on Monday made the news on all Tirana’s main television channels. In Communist times, Norman Wisdom comedies were the only western film allowed into ...