Norman Bird
Acting
Born 1920-10-30
Died 2005-04-22
Coalville, Leicestershire, England, UK
127 credits
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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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Filmography
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Thursday Theatre
Coronation Street
The Avengers
The Saint
Gideon's Way
Screen Two
Theatre 625
Crown Court
All Creatures Great and Small
No Hiding Place
Z-Cars
ITV Saturday Night Theatre
Thirty-Minute Theatre
The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes
Angels
Public Eye
Fawlty Towers
Drama 61-67
Yes Minister
The Lord of the Rings
Department S
Hammer House of Horror
Return of the Saint
Jason King
The Adventurer
Budgie
Worzel Gummidge
Hammer House of Mystery and Suspense
Steptoe and Son
Softly Softly: Task Force
The Final Conflict
Lytton's Diary
Half Hour Story
Till Death Us Do Part
Shirley's World
Arthur of the Britons
The Fourth Arm
Two's Company
Happy Ever After
After Henry
Life Begins at Forty
Friday Night, Saturday Morning
To Serve Them All My Days
W. Somerset Maugham
Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased)
The Protectors
Raffles
The Hill
Shadowlands
Winston Churchill: The Wilderness Years
The Medusa Touch
The Guardians
The Wrong Box
Maniac
Young Winston
Oh! What a Lovely War
First Men in the Moon
Baby Sitters
The League of Gentlemen
The Bargee
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