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Fortune, John(John Wood)
Currently alive, at 69 years of age.
Nationality: British
Categories: Actors, Entertainers, Satirists
1939 - Fortune was born in Bristol on June 30, 1939.
1955 - Fortune was educated at King's College in Cambridge where he was to met and formed a lasting friendship with John Bird.
1962 - Fortune contributed some of his writings to Peter Cook's Establishment Club team, which included Eleanor Bron and John Bird.
1967 - With John Bird, they work together on the TV show A Series of Birds.
1971 - Fortune and John Wells, published the comedy classic A Melon for Ecstasy, about a man who consummates his love affair with a tree.
1982 - Fortune appeared in an episode of the situation comedy Yes Minister as an army officer.
1999 - Fortune was included in the play Art with Warren Mitchell and Ken Campbell at Wyndham's Theatre in London's West End.
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