Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Birthday
1877-01-02
Deathday
1961-12-31
Place of Birth
St. Andrews, Scotland, UK
Norman MacOwan
Biography
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.
Known For
Around the World in Eighty Days
as Reform Club Member (uncredited)
The City of the Dead
as Rev. Russell
Whisky Galore!
as Captain MacPhee
X the Unknown
as Old Tom
Footsteps in the Fog
as Grimes (as Norman Macowan)
The Battle of the Sexes
as Jock Munro
Kidnapped
as Tinker
Tread Softly Stranger
as Danny
Action of the Tiger
as Trifon's Father
Where There's a Will
as Cagey