In fact, one was so booked out we went from March and were to go till November, but the pantomime was booked so they transferred the show to the Prince of Wales Theatre because it was so packed out, and it ran on from there.

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.