- As of February 2024, at 109 years of age, he is thought to be the oldest man living in London, and the third oldest living in the United Kingdom overall.
- Entered the film industry as an extra in 1936, working his way up to gofer. Following a fortuitous meeting with editor-cum director David Lean he became an assistant director and production manager for him in the early 40s, continuing to work on a number of Lean's projects throughout the next two decades, most notably as co-author of the screenplay for Hobson's Choice (1954).
- Father of actress Sally-Jane Spencer.
- Spencer first met David Lean (they worked several times together during the 40'sand the 50's) when he was a gofer at Denham Studios and Lean was an editor.
- He lives in Denham and has been taking French lessons with Activ'French, a group of tutors offering classes for adults. He said: said: "I am not in my first flush of youth but I find that age is certainly not a limitation to learn a language.".
- Spencer is a British film producer, production manager and screenwriter, who collaborated with director David Lean during the 1940s and 50s.
- His first job on a Lean film was as assistant director on Lean's debut as a director, In Which We Serve (1942).
- Norman Spencer began in the film industry in the mid-1930s, initially doing extra work.
- In July 2013, Spencer attended a special screening of Great Expectations at Wolterton Hall, Norfolk.
- Spencer became Lean's production manager after joining Cineguild Productions in 1944 and went on to work on Lean's acclaimed adaptation of the Charles Dickens novel, Great Expectations (1946), and later co-scrpited and co-produced Lean's film of Harold Brighouse's play Hobson's Choice (1954). Lean's first casting suggestion for the lead role was Welsh-born Roger Livesey, but Spencer convinced him to cast Charles Laughton instead, later explaining: "Laughton was a Yorkshireman and he would be playing a Lancastrian, so you'd get regional accuracy, more or less, with international casting. And I thought it needed that size of character.".
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