Norman Painting, OBE (Born April 23 1924 in Leamington Spa, Warwickshire) is an actor who has played Phil Archer in the BBC Radio 4 soap opera "The Archers" since the pilot episodes were aired on the BBC Midlands Home Service in summer 1950. The series went national on January 1 1951. He is the longest-serving member of the cast. Painting, a graduate of The University of Birmingham and Christ Church, University of Oxford, was already an interviewer, … Wikipedia
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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 Philip Archer in BBC radio soap "The Archers" in 2000. www.imdb.com/name/nm1674673/
