John Bird
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| Gender | Male |
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| Age | 75 |
| Date of birth | June 9,1948 |
| Zodiac sign | Gemini |
| Born | Doncaster |
| United Kingdom | |
| Spouse | Parveen Sodhi |
| Nationality | English |
| British | |
| Albums | British Comedy - Diamond Jubilee Edition |
| Job | Social entrepreneur |
| Awards | British Academy Television Award for Best Entertainment Performance |
| British Academy Television Award for Best Entertainment Programme | |
| Listen artist | open.spotify.com |
| Education | King's College, Cambridge |
| Songs | SongsAmazin' Man1975 Gunboat Dipperlomacy1975 Top of the FormDead Parrot Society: The Best of British Comedy · 1993 View 10+ more |
| List | Top of the FormDead Parrot Society: The Best of British Comedy · 1993 |
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| Date of Upd. | |
| ID | 536375 |
Take a Girl Like You
Absolute Power
A Dandy in Aspic
30 Is a Dangerous Age, Cynthia
The Seven- Per-Cent Solution
Jabberwocky
Not So Much a Programme, More a Way of Life
The Long Johns
A Promise of Bed
A Very Peculiar Practice
El C. I. D.
Blue Remembered Hills
Joint Account
The Best House in London
Chambers
Travelling Man
A Series Of Bird's
Rory Bremner. . . Who Else?
In the Red
Well Anyway
Giving Tongue
Pleasure at Her Majesty's
Educating Marmalade
After That, This
The Alf Garnett Saga
Beyond a Joke
Bejewelled
BBC-3
That Was Tory
Alice in Wonderland
The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole
Famous, Rich and Homeless
Jane in the Desert
Anna Lee: Diversion
A Little Princess
Rory Bremner
Fothergill
With Bird Will Travel
John Bird Life story
John Charles Bird is an English former professional footballer and manager. Bird's transfer from Preston North End to Newcastle United in 1975 prompted the resignation of Preston manager Bobby Charlton.
John Bird: Actor and comedian dies aged 86
By Steven McIntoshEntertainment reporter
Actor and comedian John Bird has died aged 86, his representatives have confirmed.
He was well known for his work in satirical TV shows, particularly his many appearances opposite John Fortune .
Bird was part of the satire boom of the 1960s, appearing in programmes such as That Was The Week That Was.
But he was perhaps best known for his work with Fortune and Rory Bremner in the TV series Bremner, Bird and Fortune .
The satirical show ran for 16 series, as well As One -off specials, between 1999 and 2008, and was nominated for several Bafta TV Awards.
In one of Bird and Fortune 's most famous recurring sketches, known as The Long Johns, one of the two Actors - Bird or Fortune - would portray a senior figure from public life, being interviewed by The Other .
In The Set piece. the fictional businessman, government consultant or bumbling politician, who always went by the name of George Parr , would be skewered by the increasingly exasperated interviewer.
During an appearance on Desert Island Discs in 2004, Fortune said it was " very difficult to keep a straight face" during his and Bird 's largely improvised duo-logues.
Bird 's film credits include Red and Blue, Cynthia, A Dandy in Aspic, 30 Is a Dangerous Age, Jabberwocky, and Yellow Pages.
After the cancellation of That Was the Week that Was ahead of the 1964 general election, The Bbc commissioned The Late Show to try and recapture the success of the satirical political show.
However, it only ran for a year, and was dropped after 24 episodes. The Late Show also starred Barry Humphries , best-known as his comedic alter-ego Dame Edna Everage.
Bird 's other TV credits included If It Moves File It, Dangerous Brothers, A Very Peculiar Practice, My Father Knew Lloyd George, and The Secret Policeman's Other Ball.
Bird shared a Bafta with co-star Fortune in 1997. The award, for best light entertainment performance, came for their work on Channel 4 's Rory Bremner , Who Else ? programme.
In the early noughties, he starred opposite Sarah Lancashire in The Bbc 's legal sitcom Chambers, appearing in both the original radio series, and later the TV adaptation.
Bird also appeared in three episodes of Jonathan Creek , as well As One episode of One Foot in The Grave .
Source of news: bbc.com
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