Norman MacOwan

Born: 1877-01-02

Norman MacOwan was a British actor and writer. He started his career in the theater in 1903, and both wrote and performed a number of plays in the 1920s and 1930s. Plays Norman MacOwan wrote included: The Blue Lagoon (1921), The Infinite Shoeblack (1930), and Glorious Morning (1938). MacOwan appeared in a number of movies including: BBC Sunday-Night Theatre (1950), Tread Softly Stranger (1958), Kidnapped (1960), and The City of the Dead (1960). He was married to Violet [Ellen] Stephenson (actress). He died on December 31, 1961 in Hastings, East Sussex, England.


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Around the World in Eighty Days

as Reform Club Member (uncredited)
Released: 1956-10-17

Based on the famous book by Jules Verne the movie follows Phileas Fogg on his journey around the...

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Footsteps in the Fog

as Grimes (as Norman Macowan)
Released: 1955-09-14

A Victorian-era murder mystery about a parlour maid who discovers that her employer may have...

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Whisky Galore!

as Captain MacPhee
Released: 1949-06-16

Based on a true story. The name of the real ship, that sunk Feb 5 1941 - during WWII - was S/S...

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X the Unknown

as Old Tom
Released: 1956-09-21

Army radiation experiments awaken a subterranean monster from a fissure that feeds on energy and...

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The Battle of the Sexes

as Jock Munro
Released: 1960-02-25

Angela Barrows is a man-eating business woman sent by her American employer to investigate their...

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The City of the Dead

as Rev. Russell
Released: 1960-09-09

A young college student arrives in a sleepy Massachusetts town to research witchcraft; during...

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Kidnapped

as Tinker
Released: 1960-02-24

Kidnapped and cheated out of his inheritance, young David Balfour falls in with a Jacobite...

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Tread Softly Stranger

as Danny
Released: 1958-08-15

Unable to pay his bookie, a man returns to his hometown where his embezzler brother and...

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Action of the Tiger

as Trifon's Father
Released: 1957-08-22

A woman hires soldier-of-fortune Carson to smuggle her into Albania by way of Greece. Their...

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Valley of the Eagles

as McTavis, ferry pilot
Released: 1951-09-26

A Norwegian scientist builds a device that can convert sound waves into electrical energy....

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Heart of a Child

as Heiss
Released: 1958-04-30

A young boy goes to desperate lengths to save the family dog when his father agrees sell it to...

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Castle in the Air

as Pettigrew
Released: 1952-06-01

The owner of a Scottish castle discovers that it is haunted by the spirit of a beautiful woman....

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Where There's a Will

as Cagey
Released: 1955-03-01

A Cockney family inherit a ramshackle Devon farm. The rest of the family don't want to leave...

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The Adventures of William Tell

as Andreas
First aired: 1958-09-15

The Adventures of William Tell is a British swashbuckler adventure series, first broadcast on...

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