
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

Water for Elephants

Straw Dogs

Memoirs of an Invisible Man

Into the West

The Face of Fu Manchu

The Hound of the Baskervilles

Cry of the Innocent

Hidden Agenda

National Theatre Live: Hamlet

Jimmy's Hall

Driving Lessons

Midnight's Child

Mad About Mambo

Aladdin and the Adventure of All Time

On the Nose

Home Cooking

The Last Right

Even Hitler Had a Girlfriend

Adolf Hitler: My Part in His Downfall

National Theatre Live: Of Mice and Men

Waiting at the Field Gate

Sakharov

The Dead Hands of Dublin

The Secret Garden: The Musical

Rough for Theatre II

A Love Divided

The Eclipse

The Legion Hall Bombing

Small, Far Away: The World of Father Ted

Homemade

Juno and the Paycock

Conspiracy of Silence

Stan

The Temptation of Eileen Hughes

Oyster Farmer

Sunset Heights

Prisoners of the Moon

Screamer

A Question Of Faith

Boxed
TV Shows

Cheers

Elementary

The Tonight Show with Jay Leno

Agatha Christie's Poirot

Hell's Kitchen

Play for Today

Crown Court

Babylon 5

Tony Awards

The Wednesday Play

Peak Practice

Screen Two

ITV Playhouse

Thirty-Minute Theatre

Minder

Waking the Dead

Tales of the Unexpected

Rumpole of the Bailey

The Sweeney

Lovejoy

Churchill's People

Thriller

Wycliffe

Van der Valk

Dalgliesh

Father Ted

Justice

Maigret

Strangers

Colditz

The Adventurer

Stay Lucky

Fall of Eagles

Villains

Nanny

River

Mr. Palfrey of Westminster

Unnatural Causes

99-1

Never Mind the Quality, Feel the Width

Armchair Theatre

The Treacle People

1990

Dinner with Dani

Insurrection






