Up in the World
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Up in the World is a 1956 comedy film starring Norman Wisdom
Norman Wisdom
Sir Norman Joseph Wisdom, OBE was an English actor, comedian and singer-songwriter best known for a series of comedy films produced between 1953 and 1966 featuring his hapless onscreen character Norman Pitkin...

, Maureen Swanson and Jerry Desmonde
Jerry Desmonde
Jerry Desmonde was an English stage musical, film, and television actor principally in comedies and drama. He is probably best known as a straight man to Norman Wisdom.Jerry is sometimes credited as Jerry Desmond....

, directed by John Paddy Carstairs
John Paddy Carstairs
John Paddy Carstairs was a British film director and television director , usually of light-hearted subject matter. He was also a comic novelist and painter....

 and made by Rank
Rank Organisation
The Rank Organisation was a British entertainment company formed during 1937 and absorbed in 1996 by The Rank Group Plc. It was the largest and most vertically-integrated film company in Britain, owning production, distribution and exhibition facilities....

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Cast

  • Norman Wisdom
    Norman Wisdom
    Sir Norman Joseph Wisdom, OBE was an English actor, comedian and singer-songwriter best known for a series of comedy films produced between 1953 and 1966 featuring his hapless onscreen character Norman Pitkin...

     as Norman
  • Maureen Swanson as Jeannie Andrews
  • Jerry Desmonde
    Jerry Desmonde
    Jerry Desmonde was an English stage musical, film, and television actor principally in comedies and drama. He is probably best known as a straight man to Norman Wisdom.Jerry is sometimes credited as Jerry Desmond....

     as Major Willoughby
  • Michael Caridia as Sir Reginald
  • Colin Gordon
    Colin Gordon
    Colin Gordon was a British actor born in Ceylon .He was educated at Marlborough College and Christ Church, Oxford. He made his first West End appearance in 1934 as the hind legs of a horse in a production of “Toad of Toad Hall”. From 1936 to 1939 he was a director with the Fred Melville Repertory...

     as Fletcher Hethrington
  • Ambrosine Phillpotts
    Ambrosine Phillpotts
    -Selected filmography:* This Man Is Mine * The Chiltern Hundreds * The Franchise Affair * Happy Go Lovely * Mr...

     as Lady Banderville
  • Michael Ward
    Michael Ward (actor)
    Michael Ward was an English character actor who appeared in nearly eighty films between 1947 and 1978.-Early life:...

     as Maurice
  • Jill Dixon as Sylvia
  • Edwin Styles
    Edwin Styles
    -Filmography:* Hell Below * Road House * The Five Pound Man * Patricia Gets Her Man * Adam and Evelyne * The Lady with the Lamp * Top Secret * Derby Day...

     as Conjuror
  • Hy Hazell
    Hy Hazell
    Hy Hazell was a British film actress. She was born as Hyacinth Hazel O'Higgins.-Selected filmography:* Meet Me at Dawn * Paper Orchid * The Lady Craved Excitement...

     as Yvonne
  • William Lucas
    William Lucas (British actor)
    William Lucas is a British film and television actor. His first acting role was in the film Portrait of Alison , and later appeared in many Hammer Film Productions such as Shadow of the Cat. He is probably best known for his role in The Adventures of Black Beauty as Dr...

     as Mick Bellman
  • Lionel Jeffries
    Lionel Jeffries
    Lionel Charles Jeffries was an English actor, screenwriter and film director.-Early life and career:Jeffries attended the Queen Elizabeth Grammar School, Wimborne Minster, Dorset. In 1945, he received a commission in the Oxford and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry...

     as Wilson
  • Cyril Chamberlain
    Cyril Chamberlain
    Cyril Chamberlain was an English film and television actor. He appeared in a number of the early Carry On, Doctor in the House and St. Trinian's films....

     as Harper
  • Michael Brennan
    Michael Brennan (actor)
    Michael Brennan was an English film and television actor.Born in London, Brennan was married to actress Mary Hignett. He appeared in such films as Nicholas Nickleby, Thunderball, The Amorous Adventures of Moll Flanders, Tom Jones, and The 39 Steps...

     as Prison Warder
  • Eddie Leslie as Max
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