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John Fortune

John Fortune was an English satirist, comedian, writer, and actor, best known for his work with John Bird and Rory Bremner on the TV series Bremner, Bird and Fortune. He was educated at Bristol Cathedral School and King's College, Cambridge, where he was to meet and form a lasting friendship with John Bird.

Known For: Acting

Born: Bristol, England, UK, 1939-06-30

Died: 2013-12-31

Film

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1965	The Drinking Party	Phaedrus	0
2	1965	The End of Arthur's Marriage	Server	54
3	1970	Take a Girl Like You	Sir Gerald	58
4	1973	The Cobblers of Umbridge	Phil Cobbler	0
5	1976	Jumbo	Dick Thompson	0
6	1978	The Light Princess	Prince	70
7	1981	Timon of Athens	Poet	70
8	1982	The Secret Policeman's Other Ball	Self - Various Roles	60
9	1984	Bloodbath at the House of Death	John Harrison	54
10	1986	The Demon Lover	Eric Farnham	0
11	1990	Life After Life	Detective Inspector Curtin	0
12	1993	Don't Leave Me This Way	George Saunders	70
13	1995	England, My England	Edward Hyde, Earl of Clarendon	50
14	1995	A Very Open Prison	Prime Minister	100
15	1996	Giving Tongue	Chief Executive	10
16	1999	The Strange Case of Delfina Potocka	2nd Official	0
17	2000	Saving Grace	Melvyn	65
18	2000	Maybe Baby	Acupuncturist	54
19	2001	The Tailor of Panama	Maltby	60
20	2002	Peter Cook: At a Slight Angle to the Universe	Self	0
21	2003	Between Iraq and a Hard Place		0
22	2003	Calendar Girls	Frank	65
23	2005	Match Point	John the Chauffeur	74
24		Rory Bremner: From Blair to Here	George Parr	70

Television

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1964	Not So Much a Programme, More a Way of Life		0
2	1967	A Series Of Bird's		0
3	1974	Playhouse	Dick Thomson	70
4	1976	The Secret Policeman's Ball	Self	50
5	1976	Well Anyway		0
6	1978	The BBC Television Shakespeare	Poet	60
7	1980	Yes Minister		83
8	1981	Hi-de-Hi!	Max Tewkesbury	70
9	1984	The Bill		67
10	1989	Campion	Dr. Brian Kingston	56
11	1989	Rory Bremner		0
12	1990	Have I Got News for You	Self	71
13	1991	Murder Most Horrid	Squire Thorpe	66
14	1993	Rory Bremner...Who Else?		0
15	1995	Queen's Nose	Sir Vivian	70
16	1999	Bremner, Bird and Fortune		60
17	2003	Spine Chillers	Frank	0
18	2004	New Tricks	Mel Simons	74
19	2005	Love Soup		80
20	2007	Comedy Showcase	Magistrate	70
21	2008	Bremner, Bird and Fortune: Silly Money	Various	0
22	2010	The Increasingly Poor Decisions of Todd Margaret	Magistrate	68