Cast: John Bird
Top movies, series, and documentaries starring John Bird. Uncover the most acclaimed works, loved by fans and praised by critics.
Titles found: 25
Alice in Wonderland (TV)
1966 · Movie · 70 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Jonathan Miller
Cast Anne-Marie Mallik · Freda Dowie · Jo Maxwell Muller · Wilfrid Brambell
Synopsis Alice in Wonderland (1966) is a BBC television play based on Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll. It was directed by Jonathan Miller, then most widely known for his appearance in the long-running satirical revue Beyond the Fringe. Miller's...
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Yellow Pages
1985 · Movie · 89 min. · United Kingdom
Direction James Kenelm Clarke
Cast Chris Lemmon · Jean Simmons · Lea Thompson · Viveca Lindfors
Synopsis Forever bungling private investigator Henry Brilliant (Chris Lemmon) has been hired by Maxine de la Hunt (Jean Simmons) to protect her step-daughter Marigold (Lea Thompson) during her trip to Denmark. A real caring parent should have hired an army of...
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30 Is a Dangerous Age, Cynthia
1968 · Movie · 85 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Joseph McGrath
Cast Dudley Moore · Eddie Foy Jr. · Suzy Kendall · John Bird
Synopsis Rupert Street, a piano player and composer, decides to write a musical and marry before he reaches his thirtieth birthday. One minor problem: he'll be 30 in six weeks...
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The Breaking of Bumbo
1970 · Movie · 89 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Andrew Sinclair
Cast Richard Warwick · Joanna Lumley · Natasha Pyne · Jeremy Child
Synopsis The hilarious adventures of young Bumbo Bailey, who enlists in the Brigade of Guards and is based in the prestigious Wellington Barracks in London in the Swinging Sixties. He regards his social life as important as his military.
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King Lear (TV)
1982 · Movie · 180 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Jonathan Miller
Cast John Shrapnel · Norman Rodway · Michael Kitchen · Michael Hordern
Synopsis King Lear, old and tired, divides his kingdom among his daughters, giving great importance to their protestations of love for him. When Cordelia, youngest and most honest, refuses to idly flatter the old man in return for favor, he banishes...
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A Very Peculiar Practice (TV Series)
1986 · Series · 50 min. · United Kingdom
Direction David Tucker
Cast Peter Davison · Graham Crowden · Barbara Flynn · David Troughton
Synopsis TV Serie (1986-1988). 2 seasons. 14 episodes. An idealistic young doctor, Stephen Daker (Peter Davison), taking up a post as a member of a university medical centre. The centre is staffed by a group of misfits including the bisexual Rose...
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Bejewelled (TV)
1991 · Movie · 95 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Terry Marcel
Cast Emma Samms · Paris Jefferson · Dirk Benedict · Bob Dysinger
Synopsis A Collection Of Priceless Jewels Is Missing. But With This Unlikely Team Of Detectives Hot On The Trail, The Trouble Has Just Begun!
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Blue Remembered Hills (TV)
1979 · Movie · 72 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Brian Gibson
Cast Colin Welland · Michael Elphick · Robin Ellis · Helen Mirren
Synopsis On an idyllic summer afternoon in the summer of 1943, a group of children play in the West Country hills, fields and forests. With no adults around, they indulge in spontaneous games and horseplay - sometimes echoing the distant war,...
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Comedy Playhouse (TV Series)
1961 · Series · 30 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Neil Munro · A.J. Bacon · Jilly Cooper · Michael Mills
Cast Frank Thornton · Robert Dorning · Ronald Fraser · Warren Mitchell
Synopsis TV Series (1961-1975; 2015-2016). 17 seasons. 133 episodes.
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A Little Princess (TV Miniseries)
1986 · Series · 163 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Carol Wiseman
Cast Maureen Lipman · Amelia Shankley · Miriam Margolyes · Annette Badland
Synopsis TV Mini-Series (1986-). 6 Episodes. Sara Crewe is the pampered darling of her father, an army captain, and the Victorian London girls' school where he places her. But when her father dies, penniless, Sara becomes a skivvy in Miss Michin's...
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Bremner, Bird and Fortune (TV Series)
1999 · Series · 60 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Steve Connelly · Chris Fox · Tristram Shapeero
Cast Rory Bremner · John Bird · Andrew Dunn · Dermot Murnaghan
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In the Red (TV Miniseries)
1998 · Series · 60 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Marcus Mortimer
Cast Sally Phillips · Warren Clarke · David Ryall · Rebecca Front
Synopsis A series of killings of bank managers has London in a turmoil, all the way up to Parliament. And the killer regularly calls about his handiwork, but only to a street-wise, and usually rather tipsy, radio reporter, about to be...
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Timon of Athens (TV)
1981 · Movie · 128 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Jonathan Miller
Cast John Fortune · John Bird · Tony Jay · David Kinsey
Synopsis Timon loves to give parties and objects to friends, but when he cannot pay his creditors, his "friends" refuse to help him, and he becomes a misanthropic hermit.
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Rory Bremner, Who Else? (TV Series)
1993 · Series · 45 min. · United Kingdom
Direction David Crean · Sean Hardie · Steve Connelly · Tom Poole
Cast Rory Bremner · Frances Barber · John Bird · John Fortune
Synopsis (1993-1998).
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Benjamin Franklin (TV) (TV Miniseries)
1974 · Series · 320 min. · United States
Direction Glenn Jordan
Cast Eddie Albert · Victor Buono · Edward Mulhare · Willie Aames
Synopsis A mini-series made up of four plays each showing Benjamin Franklin at a different stage in his life. In each episode, Franklin is played by a different actor.
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Educating Marmalade (TV Series)
1981 · Series · 30 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Andrew Davies
Cast Charlotte Coleman · John Bird · Lynda La Plante · Gillian Raine
Synopsis TV Series. 11 episodes. Marmalade Atkins is the naughtiest girl in the world. In fact, she's so wicked that her parents and social worker decide that the only thing to do with her is to blast her into space.
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Bert & Dickie (Going for Gold - The '48 Games) (TV)
2012 · Movie · 89 min. · United Kingdom
Direction David Blair
Cast Matt Smith · Sam Hoare · James Frain · Geoffrey Palmer
Synopsis In 1948, just three years after the end of the Second World War, London is half-destroyed. But, determined not to “let the Games die”, the British Olympic Committee convinces Prime Minister that the Olympics could help bring the country back...
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Travelling Man (TV Miniseries)
1984 · Series · 60 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Sebastian Graham Jones · Charles Kitchen · Gareth Morgan · Eugene Ferguson
Cast Leigh Lawson · Terry Taplin · Tony Doyle · Sue Robinson
Synopsis After completing a 2 year prison sentence for a bribe he didn't take, Ex-Detective Inspector Alan Lomax wants answers. Lomax has at least one luxury left - a narrowboat, and it's on the canals, among the day trippers and travellers,...
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A Promise of Bed
1970 · Movie · 78 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Derek Ford
Cast Vanda Hudson · Victor Spinetti · Vanessa Howard · Dennis Waterman
Synopsis Three part 'trilogy of comedy'. In 'This' Susan Stress, a fading sex symbol attempts to win the lead in a movie by seducing the son of a film producer only to make a fool of herself in a case of...
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El C.I.D. (TV Series)
1990 · Series · 60 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Chris Kelly · Iain Roy · Lawrence Gordon Clark · Tom Clegg
Cast John Bird · Simón Andreu · Tony Haygarth · Donald Churchill
Synopsis DescriptionTwo policemen, Bromley and Blake, decide to uproot their lives and move to Spain. They move into luxury yacht `El CID' on the sunny and relaxed Costa del Sol. But while the sun may shine, the criminal world does not...
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