Bird and Fortune were nominated for four Baftas and won the Television Award for their performance in 1997
Actor and comedian John Byrd has died aged 86, his representatives have confirmed.
He was known for his work on satirical television shows most famously Channel 4’s ‘Bremner, Bird And Fortune’.
His friend and colleague Bremner, 61, wrote: “It is an irony that one of our greatest satirists, so brilliant at imitating ministers, civil servants or high officials, was himself so modest and moderate.
John Bird was, to the end, never pleased with himself, always feeling that he should have done better. The reality was that he and his friend and associate John Fortune, along with Peter Cook, were pillars of the anti-establishment movement.”
According to the announcement, the actor passed away at Pendean Nursing Home. Bremner said it was “shocking” that Byrd died on Christmas Eve, “nine years, almost, after Fortune, who died aged 74 on New Year’s Eve 2013”.
Bird and Fortune were nominated for four Baftas and won the Television Award for their performance in 1997.
Bird, Bremner and Fortune also collaborated on the BBC’s Now Something Else and The Rory Bremner Show and the Channel 4 series Rory Bremner, Who Else?.
Bird also appeared in the fantasy films Jabberwocky, the sitcoms Yes, Prime Minister, A Very Peculiar Practice, Chambers and One Foot In The Grave and the crime series Jonathan Creek, Inspector Morse and Midsomer Murders.
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