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Acting

John Bird

Career: Active from 1964 to 2009, busiest in 1969 and 1970 with 3 main titles each.

Leading roles: 20
top three billing

Average score: 51/100

Highest rated: Absolute Power
78/100

What stands out

Compared with the average well-known movie, over 30 of their titles. Select a trait to filter titles.

John Bird Catalog average

Rarely in their work

Adrenaline
2.6, average 4.8
Violence
2.5, average 4.1
Scare
1.1, average 2.6
Tension
4.6, average 6.0

Main genres

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Recurring tags

Social Commentary 4
Witty Dialogue 3
Character-Driven 3
Mischievous Protagonist 2
Slapstick Humor 2
Coming-of-Age 2
Situational Comedy 2
British Satire 2
Sketch Comedy 2
Ensemble Cast 2
Documentary Series 2
Lighthearted 2

Works often with

People in at least two of their main titles.

Movies and TV shows

91

Type

Role

Score

Decade

Genre

Group by

Upcoming

1 title

Rory Bremner: From Blair to Here

as Interviewer

2000s

8 titles · average score 71

Famous, Rich and Homeless

TV show

Bremner, Bird and Fortune: Silly Money

TV show · as Various

The Real Dad's Army

TV show · as Narrator

Bottom Mindless Violence

as Father (archive footage)

Absolute Power

78

TV show · as Martin McCabe

Celebrity Mastermind

TV show

Winter Solstice

65

as Barry

Chambers

TV show

1990s

17 titles · average score 69

Bremner, Bird and Fortune

TV show · Creator, Writer

In the Red

69

TV show · as Controller, Radio 4

Midsomer Murders

80

TV show · as St John Beachwood

Jonathan Creek

77

TV show · as Horace Greeley / D.I. Nathan Gallo

Rory Bremner...Who Else?

TV show

To Play the King

80

TV show · as Bryan Brynford-Jones

After the Dance

as John Reid

Murder Most Horrid

70

TV show · as Duncan Jupp

Performance

TV show · as John Reid

TV show · as Douglas Bromley

One Foot in the Grave

52

TV show · as Lewis Atterbury

Cluedo

TV show · as Professor Plum

1980s

33 titles · average score 74

Joint Account

TV show

A Bit of Fry & Laurie

85

TV show

The Children of Dynmouth

as Commander Abigail

Inspector Morse

80

TV show · as George Linacre

Filthy Rich & Catflap

69

TV show · as Dingo Wucker

Yes, Prime Minister

87

TV show · as Simon Monk

A Very Peculiar Practice

82

TV show · as Vice-Chancellor Ernest Hemmingway

Screen Two

68

TV show · as Commander Abigail

Danger: Marmalade at Work

TV show · as Mr. Atkins

Dramarama

TV show · as Dudley Roberts

Educating Marmalade

TV show · as Mr Atkins

Timon of Athens

as Painter

1970s

22 titles · average score 62

Blue Remembered Hills

74

as Raymond

Dick Turpin

73

TV show · as Gooch

The Last Window Cleaner

as Captain Wigmore

The South Bank Show

63

TV show

The BBC Television Shakespeare

TV show · as Pedant

Jabberwocky

55

as 1st Herald

The Seven-Per-Cent Solution

72

as Berger

Playhouse

TV show · as H.G. Wells

TV show · as Actor in Sketches

Take a Girl Like You

37

as Dick Thompson

Play for Today

72

TV show · as Captain Wigmore / Lord North

The Breaking of Bumbo

as Jock

1960s

10 titles · average score 45

The Best House in London

42

as Home Secretary

A Promise of Bed

34

as Taxi Driver

World in Ferment

TV show · as Gerald Pikestaff

30 Is a Dangerous Age, Cynthia!

40

as Herbert Greenslade

Red, White, and Zero

as Man on Train

With Bird Will Travel

TV show

A Series of Bird's

TV show · Writer, Creator

Piccadilly Palace

TV show

Alice in Wonderland

65

as Frog Footman

Not So Much a Programme, More a Way of Life

TV show