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- Birth nameNorman George Painting
- Norman Painting was born on April 23, 1924 in Leamington Spa, Warwickshire, England, UK. He was an actor, known for The Archers (2007), This Is Your Life (1955) and Network (1974). He died on October 29, 2009 in Warmington, Warwickshire, England, UK.
- Writer, actor, poetry-reader and interviewer, he is the longest-serving actor in a single soap opera of all time: he completed 50 years as Phil Archer in BBC radio soap "The Archers" in 2000.
- Much like the Hollywood Walk of Fame stars, he has a "Walk of Stars" star on Broad Street, Birmingham, England.
- He was awarded the OBE (Officer of the Order of the British Empire) in the 1976 Queen's New Year Honours List for his services to radio drama.
- He wrote more than 1000 scripts for "The Archers", under the pseudonym Bruno Milna. He received a Writer's Guild Award for this in 1967.
- Was Vice President of the Tree Council.
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