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

Midsomer Murders

Play for Today

Play for Today

Play for Today

Play for Today

Have I Got News for You

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