
Jim Norton
Born January 4, 1938 · Dublin, Ireland
Jim Norton (born 4 January 1938) is an Irish stage, film and television character actor, known for his work in the theatre, most notably in Conor McPherson's The Seafarer, and on television as Bishop Brennan in the sitcom Father Ted.
Notable Appearances
Movies

Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

American History X

The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas

Mary Poppins Returns

The Boy

Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close

Straw Dogs

Water for Elephants

Memoirs of an Invisible Man

Into the West

Driving Lessons

The Face of Fu Manchu

Hidden Agenda

The Hound of the Baskervilles

Jimmy's Hall

National Theatre Live: Hamlet

Home Cooking

Cry of the Innocent

Mad About Mambo

Aladdin and the Adventure of All Time

National Theatre Live: Of Mice and Men

The Last Right

Adolf Hitler: My Part in His Downfall

Even Hitler Had a Girlfriend

The Eclipse

On the Nose

Waiting at the Field Gate

Homemade

Rough for Theatre II

The Dead Hands of Dublin

Midnight's Child

Conspiracy of Silence

A Love Divided

Small, Far Away: The World of Father Ted

Prisoners of the Moon

Sakharov

The Temptation of Eileen Hughes

The Secret Garden: The Musical

Stan

A Question Of Faith

Sunset Heights

Juno and the Paycock

Oyster Farmer

The Legion Hall Bombing

Screamer

Boxed
TV Shows

Elementary

Cheers

The Tonight Show with Jay Leno

Agatha Christie's Poirot

Hell's Kitchen

Crown Court

Tony Awards

Babylon 5

Play for Today

Peak Practice

The Wednesday Play

Screen Two

ITV Playhouse

Minder

Thirty-Minute Theatre

Waking the Dead

Tales of the Unexpected

Rumpole of the Bailey

The Sweeney

Lovejoy

Thriller

Wycliffe

Dalgliesh

Churchill's People

Van der Valk

Father Ted

Justice

Maigret

Strangers

Colditz

The Adventurer

Stay Lucky

Fall of Eagles

Villains

Mr. Palfrey of Westminster

River

Nanny

Unnatural Causes

99-1

Never Mind the Quality, Feel the Width

Armchair Theatre

1990

The Treacle People

Dinner with Dani

Insurrection






