Fortune, John (John Wood)

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.