John Bird

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Known For Acting

Known Credits 83

Gender Male

Birthday November 22, 1936

Day of Death December 24, 2022 (86 years old)

Place of Birth Nottingham, England, UK

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John Bird

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Known For

Acting

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as Interviewer

2009

(2 episodes)

2008

(4 episodes) as Various

2006

(3 episodes) as Narrator

2003		Celebrity Mastermind (1 episode)
2003		Winter Solstice as Barry
2003		Absolute Power (12 episodes) as Martin McCabe
2003		Between Iraq and a Hard Place

2000

(12 episodes)

1999		Bremner, Bird and Fortune (89 episodes)
1999		The Strange Case of Delfina Potocka as 1st Official

1998

(3 episodes) as Controller, Radio 4

1997		Jonathan Creek (2 episodes) as Horace Greeley (1 episode) as D.I. Nathan Gallo
1997		Midsomer Murders (1 episode) as St John Beachwood

1996

1995

as Self

1994

(1 episode) as Adrian Wesley

1993		Rory Bremner...Who Else? (62 episodes)
1993		Sooty & Co. (1 episode) as Self

1992

as John Reid

1991		Murder Most Horrid (1 episode) as Duncan Jupp
1991		Performance (1 episode) as John Reid
1991		Bejewelled as Eustace

1990		Have I Got News for You (3 episodes) as Self
1990		Cluedo (6 episodes) as Professor Plum
1990		Circles Of Deceit as George
1990		El C.I.D. (19 episodes) as Douglas Bromley
1990		One Foot In the Grave (1 episode) as Lewis Atterbury

1989		Rory Bremner (24 episodes)
1989		Joint Account (16 episodes)
1989		A Bit of Fry & Laurie (1 episode)
1989		The Secret Policeman’s Biggest Ball as Self

1988

1987		The Children Of Dynmouth as Commander Abigail
1987		A Little Princess (6 episodes) as Mr. Carmichael
1987		Filthy Rich & Catflap (1 episode) as Dingo Wucker
1987		Inspector Morse (1 episode) as George Linacre

1986		A Very Peculiar Practice (7 episodes) as Ernest Hemingway (4 episodes)
1986		Yes, Prime Minister (1 episode)
1986		The Dangerous Brothers (2 episodes)

1985		Mrs. Capper's Birthday as Maurice
1985		The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole Aged 13¾ (6 episodes)
1985		Home to Roost (2 episodes) as FG Fielding
1985		Blue Money as Harry Diamond
1985		Lytton's Diary (1 episode) as Jacko

1984

(1 episode) as Clive

1983

as Lord North

1982		Educating Marmalade (10 episodes) as Mr Atkins
1982		King Lear as Duke of Albany
1982		The Secret Policeman's Other Ball as Self - Various Roles

1981		Timon of Athens as Painter
1981		Fothergill as HG Wells

1980		The Taming of the Shrew as Pedant
1980		A Walk in the Forest as Desmond Hughes
1980		High Tide as Cyril

1979		Red, White, and Zero as Man on Train
1979		The Last Window Cleaner as Captain Wigmore
1979		Blue Remembered Hills as Raymond
1979		Dick Turpin (1 episode)

1978		BBC Television Shakespeare (2 episodes)
1978		Armchair Thriller (1 episode) as Cyril (uncredited) (3 episodes) as Cyril

1977		Jabberwocky as 1st Herald
1977		The Galton & Simpson Playhouse (1 episode)

1976		The Seven-Per-Cent Solution as Berger
1976		Well Anyway (7 episodes)
1976		The Secret Policeman's Ball (15 episodes) as Self

1975

(6 episodes)

1974

(1 episode) as H.G. Wells

1972

as Willis

1970		Take a Girl Like You as Dick Thompson
1970		Play for Today (1 episode) as Lord North (1 episode) as Captain Wigmore (1 episode) as Desmond Hughes (1 episode) as Raymond
1970		The Breaking of Bumbo as Jock

1969		A Promise of Bed as Taxi Driver
1969		World in Ferment (6 episodes) as Gerald Pikestaff
1969		The Best House in London as Home Secretary

1968		With Bird Will Travel (6 episodes)
1968		30 Is a Dangerous Age, Cynthia! as Herbert Greenslade

1967		Omnibus (2 episodes) as Self
1967		A Series Of Bird's (8 episodes)
1967		Piccadilly Palace (1 episode)

1966

as Frog Footman

1964

(62 episodes)

Writing

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… Writer

1999

(1 episode) … Writer

1973

… Dialogue

1967

(8 episodes) … Writer

Creator

1999

… Creator

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