Jack Norton

Actor

Date of birth : 09/01/1889

Date of death : 10/15/1958

City of birth : Brooklyn, New York, USA

Pencil-mustachioed character actor in Hollywood films of the '30s and '40s, cast perennially as a reeling, incoherent, comic drunk, often clad in evening clothes and satin high hat. In an effort to make his characterizations convincing, he often followed drunks and watched their movements closely in order to copy them. In real life, he was a total abstainer from alcohol.