Norman Coburn played high school headmaster Donald Fisher on Home and Away regularly between 1988 and 2003, and then made sporadic cameos as the character up until 2007.
Norman, 86, was one of the 16 original cast members that helped launch the long running soap. In 2008, at the age of 71, he announced that he was officially retiring from acting, after a career spanning more than five decades.
However, he did make a very brief cameo on Home and Away in 2019, delighting fans. Norman was born in Sydney, Australia in 1937 but headed to the United Kingdom in a bid to kickstart a theatre career in the 1950s.
He secured a couple of bit parts in UK soaps including Coronation Street and Dixon of Dock Green, but didn’t find the resounding success he was hoping for.
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