Norman Bird
Acting1920-10-30Coalville, Leicestershire, England, UK
John George Norman Bird (30 October 1924 – 22 April 2005) was an English character actor. Bird was born in Coalville, Leicestershire, England. A RADA graduate, he made his West End debut in Peter Brook's production of The Winter's Tale at the Phoenix Theatre in 1951. He was also a member of the BBC's Radio Drama Company. His first film appearance was as the foreman in An Inspector Calls (1954). He was a familiar face to British cinema audiences of the 1950s and 1960s, appearing in nearly 50 films such as The Angry Silence (1960), The League of Gentlemen (1960), Whistle Down the Wind (1961), Victim (1961) and Term of Trial (1962) with Laurence Olivier and The Hill with Sean Connery (1965). He had over 200 television appearances, notably as Mr Braithwaite in Worzel Gummidge (1979–81) and Mr Arrad in the Fawlty Towers episode "Waldorf Salad" (1979). His long list of credits include Steptoe and Son, Till Death Us Do Part, Rising Damp, Ever Decreasing Circles, Yes Minister, To Serve Them All My Days, All Creatures Great and Small, Z-Cars, Public Eye, The Saint, Department S, Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased) and Boon. In 1990 he appeared in Stay Lucky, with Dennis Waterman, which marked his 200th television appearance. One of his last film appearances was as a taxi driver in Richard Attenborough's Shadowlands (1993).
出演作品（99）
A Cup O' Tea An' A Slice O' Cake - Worzel Gummidge Christmas Special
Yes Minister
フォルティ・タワーズ
Run a Crooked Mile
Raffles
The Punch and Judy Man
Public Eye
All Creatures Great and Small
The Avengers
To Serve Them All My Days
A Voyage Round My Father
Jason King
Cash on Demand
The Hill
Victim
The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes
Till Death Us Do Part
The Saint
Arthur of the Britons
The Angry Silence
夜の来訪者
Theatre 625
Whistle Down the Wind
Hammer House of Horror
紳士同盟
King Arthur, the Young Warlord
Budgie
Z-Cars
Return of the Saint
Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased)
Two's Company
The Organization
永遠の愛に生きて
The Bargee
80,000 Suspects
The Slipper and the Rose
A Dandy in Aspic
恐怖の魔力／メドゥーサ・タッチ
Gideon's Way
Screen Two
Night of the Eagle
素晴らしき戦争
Crossing the Floor
指輪物語
The Raging Moon
The Wrong Box
In Search of the Castaways
Man in the Moon
Hammer House of Mystery and Suspense
H・G・ウェルズのSF月世界探検
The Cracksman
The Mind Benders
Worzel Gummidge
Young Winston
Maniac
Hands of the Ripper
Doomwatch
Term of Trial
Black Carrion
My Wife Next Door
Softly Softly: Task Force
The Rise and Rise of Michael Rimmer
オーメン／最後の闘争
Bitter Harvest
Armchair Theatre
The Black Torment
After Henry
The Secret Partner
Hot Enough for June
Please Sir!
Thomas & Sarah
The Guardians
The Adventurer
Sky West and Crooked
Crown Court
Coronation Street
Very Important Person
Department S
Shirley's World
Winston Churchill: The Wilderness Years
The Fourth Arm
Lytton's Diary
The Beauty Jungle
If You Go Down in the Woods Today
Ooh...You Are Awful
The Limbo Line
Angels
No Hiding Place
Thirty-Minute Theatre
The Virgin and the Gypsy
This Office Life
All at Sea
Elementary, My Dear Watson
The Ghost Downstairs
Born Kicking
Buddy
Miss Pym's Day Out
Up The Workers
The Glums