
67 فیلم
55 سریال
1920-10-30, Coalville, Leicestershire, England, UK
2005-04-22
John George Norman Bird (30 October 1924 – 22 April 2005) was an English character actor. Bird was born in Coalville, Leicestershire, England. A RADA graduate, he made his West End debut in Peter Brook's production of The Winter's Tale at the Phoenix Theatre in 1951. He was also a member of the BBC's Radio Drama Company. His first film appearance was as the foreman in An Inspector Calls (1954). He was a familiar face to British cinema audiences of the 1950s and 1960s, appearing in nearly 50 films such as The Angry Silence (1960), The League of Gentlemen (1960), Whistle Down the Wind (1961), Victim (1961) and Term of Trial (1962) with Laurence Olivier and The Hill with Sean Connery (1965). He had over 200 television appearances, notably as Mr Braithwaite in Worzel Gummidge (1979–81) and Mr Arrad in the Fawlty Towers episode "Waldorf Salad" (1979). His long list of credits include Steptoe and Son, Till Death Us Do Part, Rising Damp, Ever Decreasing Circles, Yes Minister, To Serve Them All My Days, All Creatures Great and Small, Z-Cars, Public Eye, The Saint, Department S, Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased) and Boon. In 1990 he appeared in Stay Lucky, with Dennis Waterman, which marked his 200th television appearance. One of his last film appearances was as a taxi driver in Richard Attenborough's Shadowlands (1993).
122 عنوان
6.5
فیلم
2005
The Funny Blokes of Briti...

6.8
فیلم
1996
Crossing the Floor

6.9
فیلم
1993
Shadowlands

9.0
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1992
Born Kicking

8.0
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1992
Miss Pym's Day Out

6.3
سریال
1988
After Henry

0.0
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1986
Buddy

7.1
سریال
1985
Screen Two

7.5
سریال
1985
Lytton's Diary

0.0
فیلم
1984
This Office Life

7.4
فیلم
1984
A Voyage Round My Father

7.5
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1984
Black Carrion

6.5
سریال
1984
Hammer House of Mystery a...

6.5
سریال
1983
The Fourth Arm

9.0
فیلم
1982
The Ghost Downstairs

6.3
فیلم
1981
If You Go Down in the Woo...

5.8
فیلم
1981
The Final Conflict

6.3
سریال
1981
Winston Churchill: The Wi...

10.0
فیلم
1980
A Cup O' Tea An' A Slice ...