John Bird Movies

In 1945, the new Polish government asked for the heart of Chopin previously buried in Paris. A woman called Paulina Czernika approached the...

The only word to describe the amazing duo of Rik Mayall and Adrian Edminson is genius. For the past 25 years they have provided us with some...

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...

Sweet Hilda Capper spends her birthday fending off the well-meaning intrusions of family and friends.

A Japanese cop is sent to join the London police force on a secret investigation.

Is there nothing new under the sun? 1770. The South Atlantic. A fleet sets sail from Buenos Aires to expel the British forces and reconquer the...

Following the success of the 1979 show and the financial benefits accruing to Amnesty from the spin-off movie, TV special and record albums –...

Cartoonist Gerald Scarfe looks at that most English of things - the folly.

When DC Denis Deacey finds himself surprisingly transferred to Belfast he gets digs in a most unusual boarding house called The Crumlin View where no...

Three part comedy. A fading sex symbol attempts to win the lead in a movie by seducing the son of a film producer. A depressed middle aged loner...

A documentary about the life of British satirist and founder of 'Private Eye' Peter Cook.

A 29-year old aspiring composer—still single and without any romantic prospects—vows to both marry and write a hit musical before he...

John Fothergill, aesthete and scholar, becomes the proprietor of the Spread Eagle, in Thame, Oxfordshire, with the intent of turning it into the most...

A writer gets involved with a Soviet dissident.

Philip, a painter who specialises as a copyist, has always been dominated by strong women with secrets.

Documentary celebrating One Foot in the Grave

Short Film written by John Bird

Timothy Gedge, a socially inept yet intrusive teenage boy, wanders around the dull seaside town of Dynmouth, spying on the town's residents. At first...

Rory Bremner looks back on the first year of Tony Blair's premiership through a series of sketches.

The impressionist Rory Bremner and comedians Bird and Fortune take a look at the history of Iraq through a series of sketches, monologues and jokes....