John BirdFilmography

Born:: November 22, 1936 in Nottingham, England
Occupation:: Actor, Screenwriter, Book Author

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Passion

Crew: Book Author

Actors: Barbara Hershey, Richard Roxburgh, Emily Woof, Claudia Karvan, Simon Burke

Synopsis: Pianist, composer and archivist Percy Grainger was publicly known for a brief concert career, several interesting contemporary classical compositions, and researching and documenting a wealth of English folk music. Privately, Grainger's life was tumultuous and unconventional, as chronicled in the Read More

1999
Bejewelled

Actors: Dirk Benedict, Aeryk Egan, Emma Samms

Synopsis: The made-for-cable Bejewelled stars Emma Samms as a museum curator. Entrusted with collection of valuable jewels, she heads to London. Here she is obligated to fend off any number of potential thieves. It is also up to her to determine whom she can trust and whom she can not. Dennis Lawson, Jade Read More

1991
Going Undercover

Actors: Chris Lemmon, Jean Simmons, Lea Thompson, Nancy Cartwright, Mills Watson

Synopsis: A bungling gumshoe tries hard to affect a hard-boiled demeanor, despite the fact that his latest assignment is to protect the bratty young heiress to a fortune in this lively spoof of detective movies. Henry Brilliant, Private Eye, is no stranger to the ways of the wealthy as he too comes from a Read More

6/17/88
Return to Snowy River

Actors: Tom Burlinson, Sigrid Thornton, Brian Dennehy, Nicholas Eadie, Bryan Marshall

Synopsis: Romance and adventure abound in this sequel to the popular Australian film The Man from Snowy River. The story takes up five years after the other ended. It is still the 1880s when Jim Craig returns to his humble mountain cabin after he rounds up a heard of mustangs in the hope that he will earn Read More

4/15/88
A Very Peculiar Practice [TV Series]

Actors: Peter Davison, Graham Crowden, Barbara Flynn, David Troughton, Amanda Hillwood

Synopsis: Halfway between a sitcom and a dramedy, the British series A Very Peculiar Practice was the story of idealistic, newly divorced young doctor Stephen Decker (Peter Davison). Accepting a position with the Student Health Service of Lowlands University, Stephen tried to do his job to the best of his Read More

1986
That Was Tory

Synopsis: In this drama, a yuppie couple experiences renewed marital turmoil when the marriage of two close friends breaks up. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

1984
Blue Money

Actors: Tim Curry, Debby Bishop, Billy Connolly, Dermot Crowley, Frances Tomelty

Synopsis: An excellent vehicle to showcase the talents of Tim Curry, this comedy by Colin Bucksey casts Curry as Larry Gormley, an actor who has never really had the break he so desperately wants -- though whether or not his talent is up to the task is another question. Larry drives a cab in-between Read More

1984
The Secret Policeman's Other Ball

Actors: Rowan Atkinson, Pete Townshend, Alan Bennett, John Bird, Tim Brooke-Taylor, Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Jeff Beck

Synopsis: The highlights of two benefit concerts staged in support of Amnesty International are collected in this British performance film, which features ample helpings of both music and comedy. The members of the Monty Python comedy troupe serve as headliners, performing live variations on some of their Read More

1982
Educating Marmalade [TV Series]

Synopsis: Although he has received plaudits from adult critics for his script work on such TV and film projects as To Serve Them All My Days and Bridget Jones's Diary, Andrew Davies is best known to British youngsters as the creator of Miss Marmalade Atkins. Cheerfully describing herself as "the worst girl Read More

1982
The Taming of the Shrew

Actors: John Cleese, Sarah Badel

1980
Jabberwocky

Actors: Terry Gilliam, Michael Palin, Max Wall, Deborah Fallender, John Le Mesurier, Annette Badland, Warren Mitchell

Synopsis: An innocent country farmer experiences a number of improbable misadventures that culminate in a battle against the titular beast in this broadly comic fantasy. The first solo outing of director Terry Gilliam, who served as animator and co-director on Monty Python and the Holy Grail, returns to the Read More

1977
Well Anyway [TV Series]

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: John Bird, John Fortune

Synopsis: The setting for this British sitcom was the Earl's Court District of London. By day a photographer and sculptor, John Dally (John Bird) moonlighted as a private eye. Dally's hectic if well-balanced existence was upset by the arrival of John Chance (John Fortune), who claimed to have been a college Read More

1976
Pleasure at Her Majesty's

Synopsis: In 1976, a member of the office staff at the London offices of Amnesty International, a global human rights watchdog group, discovered they'd received a donation from one "J. Cleese" and discovered he was John Cleese, one of the founding members of the Monty Python comedy troupe. Amnesty Read More

1976
Monty Python Meets Beyond the Fringe

Synopsis: This documentary is a filmed record of the preparations and rehearsals for a Monty Python group performance in conjunction with "Beyond the Fringe" comedian Peter Cook at Her Majesty's Theatre in London in 1976. Backstage sequences are also shown. The very serious work involved in creating funny Read More

1976
The Seven-Percent Solution

Actors: Alan Arkin, Vanessa Redgrave, Robert Duvall, Nicol Williamson, Laurence Olivier

Synopsis: Nicholas Meyer based his screenplay for the "retro" Sherlock Holmes adventure The Seven Percent Solution on his own best-selling novel. As any Baker Street Irregular will tell you, the title refers to the dosage of cocaine taken by Sherlock Holmes (Nicol Williamson). The Great Detective's friend Read More

1976
Yellow Dog

Crew: Screenwriter

1973
Leeds [TV Series]

Crew: Screenwriter

Synopsis: John Bird and John Wells doubled as stars and directors of this intermittently scheduled British comedy series, which satirized the inner workings of the country's TV industry. The first half-hour episode, broadcast by Yorkshire Television on August 1, 1972, was "Return to Leeds." This was Read More

1972
Embassy

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Leila Buheiry, Edmond Rannania, Dean Turner

Synopsis: In this spy thriller, Gorenko (Max Von Sydow) is on the run from his Russian spymasters, and wants to defect. The Americans hide him in their Beirut embassy until they can sneak him into the States. Colonel Kesten (Chuck Connors) appears to be an American, but is actually a Russian double agent Read More

1972
Take a Girl Like You

Actors: Noel Harrison, Oliver Reed, Hayley Mills, Sheila Hancock, John Bird

Synopsis: This 1970 British sex farce stars Hayley Mills as Jenny Bunn, a naïve young schoolteacher from the north of England who comes to swinging London to teach. She moves into a suburb and becomes friends with Anna (Geraldine Sherman). Anna is dating Patrick Standish (Oliver Reed), but when Anna Read More

1970
This, That and the Other

Synopsis: In this sex comedy, a bountiful blonde woman saves a despondent fellow from suicide and teaches him to love life again. Meanwhile a sexy aspiring actress seduces the son of a man whom she believes is a powerful producer, and a cabbie dreams of a world filled with bikini clad women and exotic Read More

1970
World in Ferment [TV Series]

Actors: Angela Thorne, Jack Shepherd, Dinsdale Landen, John Bird, Irene Handl

Synopsis: This wickedly hilarious British comedy series was a dead-on spoof of World in Action, a popular BBC investigative-reporting series. On each half-hour episode, the series' "correspondents" promised to tear the lid off a recent scandal, but generally found themselves struggling to make exciting Read More

1969
The Best House in London

Actors: David Hemmings, Joanna Pettet, George Sanders, Dany Robin, Warren Mitchell

Synopsis: In this British farce, the British Home Secretary satisfies the men of London by sanctioning a government-run brothel. This comedy chronicles what happens when secretary John Bird appoints Sir Francis Leybourne to run the place. Bird then has his lovely girlfriend Babbette act as the Madame. Sir Read More

1969
30 Is a Dangerous Age, Cynthia

Actors: Dudley Moore, Eddie Foy, Jr., Suzy Kendall, John Bird, Duncan MacRae

Synopsis: In his first starring role minus his longtime partner Peter Cook, Dudley Moore plays a 29-year-old who goes through an identity crisis when approaching the "three-oh" mark. He wants to be a successful Broadway composer before reaching 30 and also wants to be happily married. Unfortunately, he's so Read More

1968
A Dandy in Aspic

Actors: Laurence Harvey, Tom Courtenay, Mia Farrow, Harry Andrews, Peter Cook

Synopsis: Director Anthony Mann's final film (Mann died during the filming, and the production was completed by the film's star, Laurence Harvey) is a kitchen-sink espionage drama with Harvey as Eberlin, a Russian spy and double-agent, homesick and pining for the Russian steppes. It is in this risky mood Read More

1968
A Series of Birds

Crew: Screenwriter

Synopsis: The casual British viewer might have tuned into the BBC anthology weekly A Series of Birds in hopes of seeing a delectable parade of females (or "birds," as they were nicknamed at the time). Instead, the series consisted of eight 30-minute playlets, all starring versatile young stage performer John Bird Read More

1967