His official website crashed last night in the volume of traffic, as word spread of his death.
His comedy seems naive, usually based on their role as "Gump," a downtrodden, sad little man faces a battered hat and a woefully ill-fitting suit, hides great technical ability, excellent comic timing, and strong business mind.
Although best known as an interpreter, was also a talented composer, including providing letters of Dame Vera Lynn greatest success, there will be bluebirds over the white cliffs of Dover.
His family said he had died peacefully in a nursing home in the Isle of Man, where he had lived for the past 30 years in a house full of antiques that he designed.
"Over the past six months, Norman has suffered a series of punches that caused a general decline in both physical and mental health. He had maintained a certain degree of independence until a few days.
"However, in recent days, his condition rapidly declined. He was not in pain or distress and went quiet at 18.46 on October 4."
Fans of Wisdom includes Charlie Chaplin - who called his favorite clown, and said it was the only serious rival of his own genius - Prince Charles and the entire population of Albania, where for years under the totalitarian regime of Enver Hoxha, his were the only westerns approved.
His films, usually light on dialogue and slapstick-heavy, they were very popular around the world, but had a cult in Albania. It was said that on any day of a year of his 32 films are shown there in a station or television film, and was hailed as a national hero - with the name of his film character, Norman Pitkin - when the Iron Curtain fell and was finally able to visit.
He knew exactly how much can be lost: two years ago was pleased to clarify some points when Sky News Online published an affectionate obituary in error. "Sir Norman is alive and well and wondered what all the fuss is about," his statement read.
His own song was Do not laugh at me because I'm a fool, but it was the opposite. He was famous in a wasteful industry how careful he was with money, saving as soon as it began to win, and equity investments. No doubt this was rooted in his previous life, when he knew hunger and neglect.
Born in London in 1915, one of the two sons of a tailor and a driver. His parents divorced, unusually for the time, and was nominally led by his father, despite the fact that young people learned to care for himself and spent time in a children's home.
He recalled in an interview that the two children often survive by stealing food from shops and stalls, but sometimes at a loss for how to prepare it: his attempt to fry eggs in the shell, was a failure.
He left school at 13 years of working as a delivery of 10 shillings Liptons teas, and went to work as a page in a ladies' club, one boy - then insisted on foot from London to Cardiff to join the merchant navy - and having learned from his days as a musician in the army, a boxer useful despite its light body.
His break of the show was unusually late in 1946, in the last days of music venues circuit, when it began as the man directly in magician David Nixon, and then had his own slot as a comedian, singer and dancer. Within six years he was a movie star, and contained in the Royal Variety Show.
As his film career declined in the early 1960's, was reinvented several times, as a direct actor - won rave reviews for her role as a cancer victim died in a 1981 television play, be careful - and as a star of stage and television. He was knighted in 2000.
He formally retired at the age of 90, then almost completely deaf, but continued to make occasional television appearances. He lived alone in the house he designed and built in the Isle of Man three years ago, when he moved to a nursing home nearby.
Phil Day, who had been publisher of Sir Norman since 1969, he was honored tonight as a "lovely man" who was "100% professional." Day, who made wisdom to be the godfather of his daughter, said: "He never refused any request never threw a tantrum was 100% professional all the time ...
"Of all the artists I have worked, it has been closer. It is a sad day."
He admitted that the star could be "unpredictable" and added: ". What he said, had to find a tongue in cheek to see if he was serious"
Day said: "I've never met anyone in the profession who do not like, even royalty.
"I've met him with members of the royal family and neck hairs have been lifted things he has said. I can not think of anyone else who could get away with it."
Sir Norman visited day in his nursing home last year and said that despite his failing health, he recalled pretending to stumble after receiving his knighthood from the Queen in 2000, asking "Do you remember when I ran"
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