John Bird
Birthday: 1936-11-22
Place of Birth: Nottingham, England, UK
Biography: John Michael Bird was an English actor, director, writer and satirist.
Movies
Jabberwocky
After the death of his father, young Dennis Cooper goes to town where he has to pass several adventu...
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Bejewelled
An American's family jewels are stolen during her trip to London and she reluctantly teams up with a...
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The Alf Garnett Saga
Alf and his family have been moved from their East End home into a high-rise council estate. Alf is ...
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The Secret Policeman’s Biggest Ball
After the criticisms of the 1987 show’s disproportionate focus on music - and the financial disaster...
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Some Interesting Facts About Peter Cook
A documentary about the life of British satirist and founder of 'Private Eye' Peter Cook....
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Winter Solstice
When Elfrida Philips abandons London for a country village, she settles in quickly. She is very poor...
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The Strange Case of Delfina Potocka
In 1945, the new Polish government asked for the heart of Chopin previously buried in Paris. A woman...
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Take a Girl Like You
Young Jenny heads to the South of England to start a new career as a school teacher. Even before she...
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Circles Of Deceit
Philip, a painter who specialises as a copyist, has always been dominated by strong women with secre...
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The Breaking of Bumbo
The hilarious adventures of young Bumbo Bailey, who enlists in the Brigade of Guards and is based in...
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Between Iraq and a Hard Place
The impressionist Rory Bremner and comedians Bird and Fortune take a look at the history of Iraq thr...
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30 Is a Dangerous Age, Cynthia!
A 29-year old aspiring composer—still single and without any romantic prospects—vows to both marry a...
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The Secret Policeman's Other Ball
Following the success of the 1979 show and the financial benefits accruing to Amnesty from the spin-...
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The Best House in London
In Victorian London, the British Government attempts a solution to the problem of street prostitutio...
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Giving Tongue
Jessie Fielding is a young MP who is trying to get an anti-hunting bill through the two Houses of Pa...
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Timon of Athens
Timon loves to give parties and objects to friends, but when he cannot pay his creditors, his "frien...
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Blue Remembered Hills
On an idyllic summer afternoon in the summer of 1943, a group of children play in the West Country h...
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Red, White, and Zero
Composed of three shorts – Ride of the Valkyrie, The White Bus, and Red and Blue – from three of Bri...
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A Promise of Bed
Three part comedy. A fading sex symbol attempts to win the lead in a movie by seducing the son of a ...
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High Tide
Ian McShane stars as Peter Curtis, who has just been released from prison after serving four years f...
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Rory Bremner: From Blair to Here
Rory Bremner looks back on the first year of Tony Blair's premiership through a series of sketches....
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Alice in Wonderland
Alice in Wonderland (1966) is a BBC television play based on Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lew...
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The Seven-Per-Cent Solution
Concerned about his friend's cocaine use, Dr. Watson tricks Sherlock Holmes into travelling to Vienn...
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Mrs Capper's Birthday
Sweet Hilda Capper spends her birthday fending off the well-meaning intrusions of family and friends...
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The Taming of the Shrew
Baptista has two daughters: Kate and Bianca. Everyone wants to wed the fair Bianca, but nobody's muc...
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Blue Money
Mobsters and the IRA chase a stagestruck London cabby (Tim Curry) who has found a briefcase full of ...
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King Lear
An aging King invites disaster, when he abdicates to his corrupt, toadying daughters, and rejects hi...
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The Last Window Cleaner
When DC Denis Deacey finds himself surprisingly transferred to Belfast he gets digs in a most unusua...
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The Falklands Factor
Is there nothing new under the sun? 1770. The South Atlantic. A fleet sets sail from Buenos Aires to...
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After the Dance
David and Joan's life has been one continuous party, but their marriage is loveless. Suddenly a youn...
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The Children Of Dynmouth
The plot follows Timothy Gedge, a socially inept yet intrusive teenage boy as he wanders around the ...
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Fothergill
John Fothergill, aesthete and scholar, becomes the proprietor of the Spread Eagle, in Thame, Oxfords...
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Scarfe's Follies
Cartoonist Gerald Scarfe looks at that most English of things - the folly....
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A Dandy in Aspic
Double-agent Alexander Eberlin is assigned by the British to hunt out a Russian spy, known to them a...
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Bottom Mindless Violence
The only word to describe the amazing duo of Rik Mayall and Adrian Edminson is genius. For the past ...
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