Norman George Painting Bio/Wiki, Net Worth, Married 2018
Norman George Painting Template:Post-nominals (23 April 1924 – 29 October 2009) was a British actor, broadcaster and writer. He played Phil Archer in the BBC Radio 4 soap opera The Archers from the pilot episodes aired on the BBC Midlands Home Service in summer 1950, after the series went national on the Light Programme on 1 January 1951, until his death in 2009, when he was the longest-serving member of the cast. His last episode, recorded two days before he died, was broadcast on 22 November 2009. The character lived on until Phil was "found dead" in his armchair in March 2010. According to Guinness World Records, Painting held the world record for an actor playing a continuous role, a total of 59 years.
Was made Honorary Life Governor of the Royal Agricultural Society of England in 1976.
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Was Vice President of the Tree Council.
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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.
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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.
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Much like the Hollywood Walk of Fame stars, he has a "Walk of Stars" star on Broad Street, Birmingham, England.
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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.