John Bird

Biography

John Michael Bird was an English actor, director, writer and satirist.

Known For

Midsomer Murders

Play for Today

Have I Got News for You

Screen Two

All Movies (37)

Bottom Mindless Violence2004 · as Father (archive footage)
Winter Solstice2003 · as Barry
Between Iraq and a Hard Place2003
The Strange Case of Delfina Potocka1999 · as 1st Official
Giving Tongue1996 · as Lord Jessop
Some Interesting Facts About Peter Cook1995 · as Self
After the Dance1992 · as John Reid
Bejewelled1991 · as Eustace
Circles Of Deceit1990 · as George
The Secret Policeman’s Biggest Ball1989 · as Self
Scarfe's Follies1988
The Children of Dynmouth1987 · as Commander Abigail
Mrs Capper's Birthday1985 · as Maurice
Blue Money1985 · as Harry Diamond
The Falklands Factor1983 · as Lord North
King Lear1982 · as Duke of Albany
The Secret Policeman's Other Ball1982 · as Self - Various Roles
The Tractor Factor1982
Timon of Athens1981 · as Painter
Fothergill1981 · as HG Wells
The Taming of the Shrew1980 · as Pedant
A Walk in the Forest1980 · as Desmond Hughes
High Tide1980 · as Cyril
The Last Window Cleaner1979 · as Captain Wigmore
Blue Remembered Hills1979 · as Raymond
Jabberwocky1977 · as 1st Herald
The Seven-Per-Cent Solution1976 · as Berger
The Alf Garnett Saga1972 · as Willis
Take a Girl Like You1970 · as Dick Thompson
The Breaking of Bumbo1970 · as Jock
A Promise of Bed1969 · as Taxi Driver
The Best House in London1969 · as Home Secretary
A Dandy in Aspic1968
30 Is a Dangerous Age, Cynthia!1968 · as Herbert Greenslade
Red, White, and Zero1968 · as Man on Train
Alice in Wonderland1966 · as Frog Footman
Rory Bremner: From Blair to Here— · as Interviewer

All TV Shows (65)

Famous, Rich and Homeless2009
Bremner, Bird and Fortune: Silly Money2008 · as Various
The Real Dad's Army2006 · as Narrator
Celebrity Mastermind2003
Absolute Power2003 · as Martin McCabe
Chambers2000
Bremner, Bird and Fortune1999
In the Red1998 · as Controller, Radio 4
Jonathan Creek1997 · as D.I. Nathan Gallo
Jonathan Creek1997 · as Horace Greeley
Midsomer Murders1997 · as St John Beachwood
Anna Lee1994 · as Adrian Wesley
To Play the King1993 · as Bryan Brynford-Jones
Rory Bremner...Who Else?1993
Sooty & Co.1993 · as Self
Murder Most Horrid1991 · as Duncan Jupp
Performance1991 · as John Reid
Have I Got News for You1990 · as Self - Team Captain
Have I Got News for You1990 · as Self
Cluedo1990 · as Professor Plum
El C.I.D.1990 · as Douglas Bromley
One Foot in the Grave1990 · as Lewis Atterbury
Rory Bremner1989
Shadow of the Noose1989 · as Mr Justice Hawkins
Joint Account1989
A Bit of Fry & Laurie1989
A Little Princess1987 · as Mr Carmichael
Filthy Rich & Catflap1987 · as Dingo Wucker
Inspector Morse1987 · as George Linacre
The Growing Pains of Adrian Mole1987 · as Courtney Elliot
A Very Peculiar Practice1986 · as Vice-Chancellor Ernest Hemmingway
Farrington of the F.O.1986 · as VJ Lawrence
Yes, Prime Minister1986
The Dangerous Brothers1986
The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole Aged 13¾1985
Home to Roost1985 · as FG Fielding
Lytton's Diary1985 · as Jacko
Screen Two1985 · as Commander Abigail
Oxbridge Blues1984 · as Clive
Travelling Man1984 · as Jack Ormand
Danger: Marmalade at Work1984 · as Mr. Atkins
Dramarama1983 · as Dudley Roberts
Educating Marmalade1982 · as Mr Atkins
Friday Night, Saturday Morning1979
Dick Turpin1979 · as Gooch
The BBC Television Shakespeare1978 · as Pedant
Armchair Thriller1978 · as Cyril
Armchair Thriller1978 · as Cyril (uncredited)
The Galton & Simpson Playhouse1977 · as The Man
Well Anyway1976
The Secret Policeman's Ball1976 · as Self
Shades of Greene1975 · as Maling
After That, This1975
Playhouse1974 · as H.G. Wells
Full House1972 · as Actor in Sketches
Play for Today1970 · as Captain Wigmore
Play for Today1970 · as Lord North
Play for Today1970 · as Desmond Hughes
Play for Today1970 · as Raymond
World in Ferment1969 · as Gerald Pikestaff
With Bird Will Travel1968
Omnibus1967 · as Self
A Series of Bird's1967
Piccadilly Palace1967
Not So Much a Programme, More a Way of Life1964