
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).

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