I was born in very sorry circumstances. Both of my parents were very sorry.

Death
In the six months prior to his death Wisdom suffered a series of strokes causing a decline in his physical and mental health. Armed forces
After a period in a children's home in Deal Kent Wisdom ran away when he was 11 but returned to become an errand boy in a grocer's shop on leaving school at 13. Wisdom was a lifelong supporter and a former board member of football team Brighton and Hove Albion.

These films initially made more money than the James Bond film series. Wisdom later forged a career on Broadway in New York and as a television actor winning critical acclaim for his dramatic role of a dying cancer patient in the television play Going Gently in 1981.