11-650: Richard Bird may refer to: Richard Bird (actor) (1895–1979), British actor Richard Ely Bird (1878–1955), American politician Richard Bird (computer scientist) (1943–2022), professor at Oxford Richard Real Bird , American politician and former chairman of the Crow Nation of Montana Richard A. Bird (born 1940), American politician Dickie Bird (born 1933), English cricket umpire See also [ edit ] Richard Birde (disambiguation) Richard Byrd (disambiguation) [REDACTED] Topics referred to by
22-789: A couple of Anglo-Amalgamated 's Edgar Wallace Mysteries films. He directed the 1938 film version of Edgar Wallace 's The Terror , as well as the 1943 stage adaptation of Graham Greene 's Brighton Rock at the Garrick Theatre , London . Two of the cast members in the production, Richard Attenborough and Hermione Baddeley , reprised their roles in the Boulting brothers ' acclaimed film version of 1947. In 1931 Bird married stage actress Joyce Barbour in London. He died in Northwood, Middlesex in 1979 aged 84. This article about an English actor
33-503: A member of the Liverpool Repertory Company in 1917. He went on to appear on both the London, ( vide (Latin) ' The French Mistress ') and American stage, making his film debut in some silent shorts during 1919. He appeared in films throughout the 1930s and 1940s, playing the lead roles in quota quickies The Warren Case and What Happened Then? (both 1934). His film roles of the 1930s tended towards melodrama, such as
44-431: Is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Probation Officer (TV series) Probation Officer was a British TV series that ran from 1959–1962 about probation officers . It was made by Associated Television and starred John Paul , Jessica Spencer, David Davies and John Scott. Other actors who appeared in the series include Henry Oscar , Honor Blackman , Windsor Davies and Billy Milton . It
55-421: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Richard Bird (actor) Richard Bird (4 April 1895 – December 1979) was an English actor and director of stage and screen. Born George, Bird took the stage name Richard Bird after being nicknamed "Dickie" by his theatre colleagues. After working in a newspaper office for a year he made his stage debut as
66-451: The dog-obsessed Jennings in Forbidden (1949). He was the romantic lead in I'll Walk Beside You (1943), and had one of his most high profile roles in the ensemble cast of Ealing 's supernatural drama The Halfway House (1944). He continued acting into the 1950s and 1960s, mainly in television series such as Ivanhoe , Probation Officer and Public Eye , as well as small roles in
77-651: The first series (Episodes 1-3, 5-8, 13-16 & 22 - Episode 8 is missing one courtroom scene) as a three disc DVD boxset. No further releases followed. Shortly after the first programmes were aired, concerns were raised by both reviewers and the National Association of Probation Officers ( NAPO ) who formally disassociated itself from the programme. Later the same year a Home Office spokesperson confirmed that future programmes would be vetted by Mr Seldon Farmer (Principal Probation Officer for Inner London Probation Service ) before television broadcast. Not all press
88-671: The jealous Ernest in Maurice Elvey 's The Water Gipsies (1932), and the murderous Eric opposite Matheson Lang in The Great Defender (1934). Middle-age made his characters more affable and his later films showcase his ability at light comedy, such as the sleepy Inspector Sneed in The Door with Seven Locks (1940); the dual role of bumbling Arthur and the Ghost in Don't Take It to Heart (1944); and
99-406: The same term This disambiguation page lists articles about people with the same name. If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Richard_Bird&oldid=1081293129 " Category : Human name disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description
110-408: Was created by Julian Bond and was the first ever one-hour TV drama to screen on ITV . Bond spent months researching the show from real life cases. Like many British TV series of the same vintage, the archive holdings of Probation Officer are incomplete, with approximately three-quarters of the episodes missing. In 2017, Network released "Volume One" on DVD, containing 12 existing episodes from
121-460: Was negative and once professionally moderated the reports appeared to be predominantly about production and contract challenges with some reporting suggesting that an 'Oscar' should be awarded for performance by June Watts. A number of programmes had production impacts from the Equity strike in 1961-2; however, the future of many programmes became untenable. In April 1962 the return of Probation Officer
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