Norman Bird
Acting
- Naissance:
- 1920-10-30
- Décès:
- 2005-04-22
- Lieu de naissance:
- Coalville, Leicestershire, England, UK
Biographie
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).
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Filmographie
The Funny Blokes of British Comedy
Crossing the Floor
Les Ombres du cœur
Born Kicking
Miss Pym's Day Out
After Henry
Buddy
Lytton's Diary
Screen Two
This Office Life
Black Carrion
Histoires Singulières
A Voyage Round My Father
The Fourth Arm
The Ghost Downstairs
Break Point
Winston Churchill: The Wilderness Years
If You Go Down in the Woods Today
La Malédiction finale
A Cup O' Tea An' A Slice O' Cake - Worzel Gummidge Christmas Special
To Serve Them All My Days
Hammer La Maison de tous les Cauchemars
Yes Minister
Friday Night, Saturday Morning
Worzel Gummidge
Thomas & Sarah
Le Seigneur des anneaux
The Glums
Le Retour du Saint
Life Begins at Forty
La Grande Menace
All Creatures Great and Small
Miss Jones And Son
Raffles
Yanks Go Home
The Slipper and the Rose
Baby Sitters
On the Tiles
The Big Kick
Double Trouble
Wedding Bells
Monkey Tricks
Pot Luck
L'Hôtel en folie
Two's Company
Angels
King Arthur, the Young Warlord
Happy Ever After
Seven Faces of Woman
Up The Workers
Elementary, My Dear Watson
Arthur of the Britons
Ooh...You Are Awful
Crown Court
L'Aventurier
My Wife Next Door
Les Griffes du lion
The Organization
Shirley's World
Doomwatch
Suspicion
La Fille de Jack l'Éventreur
Les Rivaux de Sherlock Holmes
Jason King
The Guardians
Please Sir!
Budgie
Bless This House
Une lueur d'espoir
The Rise and Rise of Michael Rimmer
Up Among the Cuckoos
The Virgin and the Gypsy
Softly Softly: Task Force
Run a Crooked Mile
Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased)
Département S
Takeover
W. Somerset Maugham
Ah ! Dieu que la guerre est jolie
The Limbo Line
ITV Saturday Night Theatre
All at Sea
Maldonne pour un espion
Sanctuary
Half Hour Story
Un mort en pleine forme
Till Death Us Do Part
Sky West and Crooked
End in Tears
Thirty-Minute Theatre
Blackmail
It's Not Me - It's Them!
La Colline des hommes perdus
Gideon's Way
Public Eye
Le Spectre Maudit
Thursday Theatre
The Trial of Dr. Fancy
The Beauty Jungle
Les premiers hommes dans la lune
Theatre 625
The Bargee
The Protectors
Hot Enough for June
80,000 Suspects
Maniac
The Punch and Judy Man
Bitter Harvest
Au bord du gouffre
The Cracksman
Les Enfants du capitaine Grant
Le Saint
Term of Trial
Brûle, Sorcière, Brûle !
Steptoe and Son
Z-Cars
Pas de crédit pour les caves
La victime
Le vent garde son secret
Scotland Yard Contre X
Le prisonnier récalcitrant
Drama 61-67
Chapeau melon et Bottes de cuir
Coronation Street
Man in the Moon
Hold-up a Londres
The Angry Silence
No Hiding Place
Armchair Theatre
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