John Bird
Known for: Acting
John Michael Bird was an English actor, director, writer and satirist.
Filmography
Series
Midsomer Murders
St John Beachwood
1997
Series
Play for Today
Captain Wigmore
1970
Series
Play for Today
Lord North
1970
Series
Play for Today
Desmond Hughes
1970
Series
Play for Today
Raymond
1970
Series
Have I Got News for You
Self - Team Captain
1990
Series
Have I Got News for You
Self
1990
Series
Playhouse
H.G. Wells
1974
Series
Inspector Morse
George Linacre
1987
Series
Screen Two
Commander Abigail
1985
Series
Omnibus
Self
1967
Series
Celebrity Mastermind
2003
Series
Performance
John Reid
1991
Series
Jonathan Creek
D.I. Nathan Gallo
1997
Series
Jonathan Creek
Horace Greeley
1997
Series
Murder Most Horrid
Duncan Jupp
1991
Series
Dramarama
Dudley Roberts
1983
Series
Yes, Prime Minister
1986
Series
Dick Turpin
Gooch
1979
Series
The BBC Television Shakespeare
Pedant
1978
Series
A Bit of Fry & Laurie
1989
Series
One Foot in the Grave
Lewis Atterbury
1990
Series
Travelling Man
Jack Ormand
1984
Series
The Secret Policeman's Ball
Self
1976
Series
Cluedo
Professor Plum
1990
Series
Lytton's Diary
Jacko
1985
Series
Sooty & Co.
Self
1993
Series
A Very Peculiar Practice
Vice-Chancellor Ernest Hemmingway
1986
Series
Friday Night, Saturday Morning
1979
Series
To Play the King
Bryan Brynford-Jones
1993
Series
Bremner, Bird and Fortune
1999
Series
Home to Roost
FG Fielding
1985
Series
Absolute Power
Martin McCabe
2003
Series
Shadow of the Noose
Mr Justice Hawkins
1989
Series
Anna Lee
Adrian Wesley
1994
Film
Jabberwocky
1st Herald
1977
Series
Filthy Rich & Catflap
Dingo Wucker
1987
Series
The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole Aged 13¾
1985
Series
The Growing Pains of Adrian Mole
Courtney Elliot
1987
Series
Oxbridge Blues
Clive
1984
Series
A Little Princess
Mr Carmichael
1987
Series
In the Red
Controller, Radio 4
1998
Series
The Galton & Simpson Playhouse
The Man
1977
Series
The Dangerous Brothers
1986
Full House
Actor in Sketches
1972
El C.I.D.
Douglas Bromley
1990
Series
Educating Marmalade
Mr Atkins
1982
Series
Shades of Greene
Maling
1975
Film
The Seven-Per-Cent Solution
Berger
1976
Not So Much a Programme, More a Way of Life
1964
Series
Farrington of the F.O.
VJ Lawrence
1986
Rory Bremner
1989
Film
Bejewelled
Eustace
1991
Series
Famous, Rich and Homeless
2009
Series
Danger: Marmalade at Work
Mr. Atkins
1984
Series
Armchair Thriller
Cyril
1978
Series
Armchair Thriller
Cyril (uncredited)
1978
Chambers
2000
Piccadilly Palace
1967
World in Ferment
Gerald Pikestaff
1969
Rory Bremner...Who Else?
1993
A Series of Bird's
1967
Film
The Secret Policeman’s Biggest Ball
Self
1989
Film
A Dandy in Aspic
1968
Film
The Secret Policeman's Other Ball
Self - Various Roles
1982
Film
Take a Girl Like You
Dick Thompson
1970
Film
Alice in Wonderland
Frog Footman
1966
Film
King Lear
Duke of Albany
1982
Film
The First Kangaroos
Jupes
1988
Film
The Best House in London
Home Secretary
1969
Film
Winter Solstice
Barry
2003
Film
The Alf Garnett Saga
Willis
1972
Film
Bottom Mindless Violence
Father (archive footage)
2004
With Bird Will Travel
1968
Film
A Promise of Bed
Taxi Driver
1969
Series
Joint Account
1989
The Tractor Factor
1982
Film
Timon of Athens
Painter
1981
After That, This
1975
Film
The Taming of the Shrew
Pedant
1980
Film
The Strange Case of Delfina Potocka
1st Official
1999
Film
30 Is a Dangerous Age, Cynthia!
Herbert Greenslade
1968
Film
Scarfe's Follies
1988
Bremner, Bird and Fortune: Silly Money
Various
2008
Film
Mrs Capper's Birthday
Maurice
1985
Film
High Tide
Cyril
1980
Film
The Falklands Factor
Lord North
1983
The Last Window Cleaner
Captain Wigmore
1979
Film
The Breaking of Bumbo
Jock
1970
Film
Blue Money
Harry Diamond
1985
Film
Red, White, and Zero
Man on Train
1968
Film
After the Dance
John Reid
1992
Giving Tongue
Lord Jessop
1996
Well Anyway
1976
Film
Blue Remembered Hills
Raymond
1979
If It Moves, File It
Quick
1970
Film
Fothergill
HG Wells
1981
I Don't Believe It!: The One Foot in the Grave Story
Self
2000
Film
A Walk in the Forest
Desmond Hughes
1980
Film
The Children of Dynmouth
Commander Abigail
1987
Film
Circles Of Deceit
George
1990
Film
Some Interesting Facts About Peter Cook
Self
1995
The Real Dad's Army
Narrator
2006
Rory Bremner: From Blair to Here
Interviewer
Film
Between Iraq and a Hard Place
2003