Biography
Jack Norton, also credited as Mortimer John Naughton, was an American stage and film character actor. He appeared in numerous films from the mid-1930s to the late 1940s, frequently in uncredited roles as drunks. He also worked in vaudeville and made his Broadway debut in the 1925 edition of Earl Carroll's Vanities.
Norton is credited in The Palm Beach Story (1942) as the Second Member of the Ale and Quail Club. Other film roles include appearances in The Roaring Twenties (1939), Jezebel (1938), The Bank Dick (1940) as A. Pismo Clam, Going My Way (1944) and The Miracle of Morgan's Creek (1944). He retired from films in 1947 due to illness, with his final release being Alias a Gentleman (1948), though he made some television appearances in the early 1950s. He died on 15 October 1958.
