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

Filmography

• Famous, Rich and Homeless
• Bremner, Bird and Fortune: Silly Money — Various
• The Real Dad's Army — Narrator
• 2004Bottom Mindless Violence — Father (archive footage)
• Absolute Power — Martin McCabe
• 2003Between Iraq and a Hard Place
• Celebrity Mastermind
• 2003Winter Solstice — Barry
• Chambers
• Bremner, Bird and Fortune — Writer, Creator
• 1999The Strange Case of Delfina Potocka — 1st Official
• In the Red — Controller, Radio 4
• Jonathan Creek — D.I. Nathan Gallo, Horace Greeley
• Midsomer Murders — St John Beachwood
• 1996Giving Tongue — Lord Jessop
• Anna Lee — Adrian Wesley
• Rory Bremner...Who Else?
• To Play the King — Bryan Brynford-Jones
• 1992After the Dance — John Reid
• 1991Bejewelled — Eustace
• Murder Most Horrid — Duncan Jupp
• Performance — John Reid
• 1990Circles Of Deceit — George
• Cluedo — Professor Plum
• El C.I.D. — Douglas Bromley
• One Foot in the Grave — Lewis Atterbury
• A Bit of Fry & Laurie
• Joint Account
• Rory Bremner
• Shadow of the Noose — Mr Justice Hawkins
• 1988Scarfe's Follies
• 1988The First Kangaroos — Jupes
• A Little Princess — Mr Carmichael
• Filthy Rich & Catflap — Dingo Wucker
• Inspector Morse — George Linacre
• 1987The Children of Dynmouth — Commander Abigail
• The Growing Pains of Adrian Mole — Courtney Elliot
• A Very Peculiar Practice — Vice-Chancellor Ernest Hemmingway
• Farrington of the F.O. — VJ Lawrence
• The Dangerous Brothers
• Yes, Prime Minister — Simon Monk
• 1985Blue Money — Harry Diamond
• Home to Roost — FG Fielding
• Lytton's Diary — Jacko
• 1985Mrs Capper's Birthday — Maurice
• Screen Two — Commander Abigail
• The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole Aged 13¾
• Danger: Marmalade at Work — Mr. Atkins
• Oxbridge Blues — Clive
• Travelling Man — Jack Ormand
• Dramarama — Dudley Roberts
• 1983The Falklands Factor — Lord North
• Educating Marmalade — Mr Atkins
• 1982King Lear — Duke of Albany
• 1982The Tractor Factor — Writer
• 1981Fothergill — HG Wells
• 1981Timon of Athens — Painter
• 1980A Walk in the Forest — Desmond Hughes
• 1980High Tide — Cyril
• 1980The Taming of the Shrew — Pedant
• 1979Blue Remembered Hills — Raymond
• Dick Turpin — Gooch
• Friday Night, Saturday Morning
• 1979The Last Window Cleaner — Captain Wigmore
• Armchair Thriller — Cyril, Cyril (uncredited)
• The BBC Television Shakespeare — Pedant
• The South Bank Show
• 1977Jabberwocky — 1st Herald
• The Galton & Simpson Playhouse — The Man
• 1976The Seven-Per-Cent Solution — Berger
• Well Anyway
• After That, This
• Shades of Greene — Maling
• Playhouse — H.G. Wells
• 1973Yellow Dog — Dialogue
• Full House — Actor in Sketches
• 1972The Alf Garnett Saga — Willis
• If It Moves, File It — Quick
• Play for Today — Raymond, Desmond Hughes, Captain Wigmore, Lord North
• 1970Take a Girl Like You — Dick Thompson
• 1970The Breaking of Bumbo — Jock
• 1969A Promise of Bed — Taxi Driver
• 1969The Best House in London — Home Secretary
• World in Ferment — Gerald Pikestaff
• 196830 Is a Dangerous Age, Cynthia! — Herbert Greenslade
• 1968A Dandy in Aspic
• 1968Red, White, and Zero — Man on Train
• With Bird Will Travel
• A Series of Bird's — Writer, Creator
• Piccadilly Palace
• 1966Alice in Wonderland — Frog Footman
• Not So Much a Programme, More a Way of Life
• Rory Bremner: From Blair to Here — Interviewer, Writer

Appearances as themselves (8)

• 2000I Don't Believe It!: The One Foot in the Grave Story — Self
• 1995Some Interesting Facts About Peter Cook — Self
• Sooty & Co. — Self
• Have I Got News for You — Self - Team Captain
• 1989The Secret Policeman’s Biggest Ball — Self
• 1982The Secret Policeman's Other Ball — Self - Various Roles
• The Secret Policeman's Ball — Self
• Omnibus — Self