Norman Clifford Bowler (born 1 August 1932) is an English retired actor, best known for his role as Frank Tate in the ITV soap opera Emmerdale.
His father, Clifford Norman Bowler (1899–1993), a watchmaker and jeweller, had a shop at 54 Mill Lane, West Hampstead, London, where he is commemorated by a plaque.
He also appeared as Titinius in Julius Caesar (1970), as Saturninus in Jesus of Nazareth (1977), as Bill Smugs in The Island of Adventure (1982), and as Moose in the Terence Hill film They Call Me Renegade (1987).
Frank's death was one of the most iconic episodes of Emmerdale, when he was left to die of a heart attack on the floor of his beloved Home Farm.
In August 2012, Bowler released a recorded reading of Samuel Taylor Coleridge's Rime of the Ancient Mariner to raise money for The Auroville Trust.