John Bird
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John Bird (born 22 November 1936) is an English satirist, actor and comedian. Out of date cinema commercial.
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| Name | John Bird |
|---|---|
| Birth date | November 22, 1936 |
| Birth place | Bulwell, Nottingham, England, United Kingdom |
| Occupation | Actor, comedian, satirist |
| Years active | 1962–present |
He has also acted straight and comic roles in several television series and in films such as Dick Turpin, Help!, Jabberwocky, The Seven-Per-Cent Solution and Yellow Pages.
During the 1970s, when Idi Amin was at the height of his infamy, Bird starred on a popular recording (The Collected Broadcasts of Idi Amin) based on Alan Coren's anti-Idi Punch columns.
He played the Director of the British National Theatre in an episode of the BBC situation comedy Yes, Prime Minister broadcast in 1988 and appeared as a newspaper editor in the political drama To Play the King in 1993.
From 1990 to 1992, Bird starred in eighteen episodes of the television detective series, El C.I.D., set in Spain. The series was serious rather than comedy-based, and co-starred Alfred Molina in the first two series and Amanda Redman in the third. The series was created by Clapperboard presenter Chris Kelly.
In 1993, Bird starred as Professor Plum in the fourth series of Cluedo.
Bird performed a number of satirical sketches with together with John Fortune (The Long Johns) in which one of the Johns interviews the other in the guise of a senior figure such as a politician, businessman or government consultant.
Bird starred as John Fuller-Carp, a barrister, in the BBC radio and television sitcom, Chambers. He also stars in the BBC Radio 4 and BBC Two series Absolute Power with Stephen Fry. Bird has also guest-starred in a number of television series, an example being the Jonathan Creek episode The Three Gamblers, in which he plays a police inspector.
He is well known in the UK for his work with John Fortune and Rory Bremner in Bremner, Bird and Fortune which has won several awards. In a famous series of sketches with John Fortune, The Long Johns, one of the Johns interviews the other in the guise of a senior figure such as a politician or businessman. In one of these sketches (The Last Laugh) which was recorded for The South Bank Show and broadcast on 14 October 2007 they were credited with being one of the first to predict the seriousness of the Financial crisis of 2007–2010.
He is a vegetarian.
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