John Bird
Born: 1936-11-22 in Nottingham, England, UK
Died: 2022-12-24
Known For: Acting
Biography
John Michael Bird was an English actor, director, writer and satirist.
Filmography
2008
- Bremner, Bird and Fortune: Silly Money as Various
2006
- The Real Dad's Army as Narrator
2004
- Bottom Mindless Violence as Father (archive footage)
2003
- Celebrity Mastermind
- Absolute Power as Martin McCabe
- Winter Solstice as Barry
- Between Iraq and a Hard Place
2000
1999
- Bremner, Bird and Fortune
- The Strange Case of Delfina Potocka as 1st Official
1998
- In the Red as Controller, Radio 4
1997
- Midsomer Murders as St John Beachwood
- Jonathan Creek as D.I. Nathan Gallo
1996
- Giving Tongue as Lord Jessop
1995
1994
- Anna Lee as Adrian Wesley
1993
- Sooty & Co. as Self
- To Play the King as Bryan Brynford-Jones
- Rory Bremner...Who Else?
1992
- After the Dance as John Reid
1991
- Performance as John Reid
- Murder Most Horrid as Duncan Jupp
- Bejewelled as Eustace
1990
- Have I Got News for You as Self - Team Captain
- One Foot in the Grave as Lewis Atterbury
- Cluedo as Professor Plum
- El C.I.D. as Douglas Bromley
- Circles Of Deceit as George
1989
- A Bit of Fry & Laurie
- Shadow of the Noose as Mr Justice Hawkins
- Rory Bremner
- Joint Account
- The Secret Policeman’s Biggest Ball as Self
1988
1987
- Inspector Morse as George Linacre
- Filthy Rich & Catflap as Dingo Wucker
- The Growing Pains of Adrian Mole as Courtney Elliot
- A Little Princess as Mr Carmichael
- The Children of Dynmouth as Commander Abigail
1986
- Yes, Prime Minister
- A Very Peculiar Practice as Vice-Chancellor Ernest Hemmingway
- Farrington of the F.O. as VJ Lawrence
- The Dangerous Brothers
1985
- Screen Two as Commander Abigail
- The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole Aged 13¾
- Lytton's Diary as Jacko
- Home to Roost as FG Fielding
- Blue Money as Harry Diamond
- Mrs Capper's Birthday as Maurice
1984
- Travelling Man as Jack Ormand
- Oxbridge Blues as Clive
- Danger: Marmalade at Work as Mr. Atkins
1983
- Dramarama as Dudley Roberts
- The Falklands Factor as Lord North
1982
- Educating Marmalade as Mr Atkins
- The Tractor Factor
- King Lear as Duke of Albany
- The Secret Policeman's Other Ball as Self - Various Roles
1981
- Timon of Athens as Painter
- Fothergill as HG Wells
1980
- High Tide as Cyril
- The Taming of the Shrew as Pedant
- A Walk in the Forest as Desmond Hughes
1979
- Dick Turpin as Gooch
- Friday Night, Saturday Morning
- Blue Remembered Hills as Raymond
- The Last Window Cleaner as Captain Wigmore
1978
- The BBC Television Shakespeare as Pedant
- Armchair Thriller as Cyril
1977
- Jabberwocky as 1st Herald
- The Galton & Simpson Playhouse as The Man
1976
- The Secret Policeman's Ball as Self
- The Seven-Per-Cent Solution as Berger
- Well Anyway
1975
- Shades of Greene as Maling
- After That, This
1974
- Playhouse as H.G. Wells
1973
- Yellow Dog ... (Dialogue)
1972
- Full House as Actor in Sketches
- The Alf Garnett Saga as Willis
1970
- Play for Today as Raymond
- If It Moves, File It as Quick
- Take a Girl Like You as Dick Thompson
- The Breaking of Bumbo as Jock
1969
- The Best House in London as Home Secretary
- World in Ferment as Gerald Pikestaff
- A Promise of Bed as Taxi Driver
1968
- A Dandy in Aspic
- With Bird Will Travel
- Red, White, and Zero as Man on Train
- 30 Is a Dangerous Age, Cynthia! as Herbert Greenslade
1967
1966
- Alice in Wonderland as Frog Footman