Bernard Joseph Cribbins, OBE was born 29 December 1928 in Derker, Oldham and became a highly respected and much loved character actor, comedy actor, voice-over artist and musical comedian with a career spanning over seventy years. In Britain, during the early 1960s, Cribbins became known for his successful novelty records, especially "Right Said Fred" and appeared as Albert Perks in The Railway Children (1970). He narrated The Wombles, a BBC children's television programme that ran for 60 episodes between 1973 and 1975, and played the pretentious guest Mr. Hutchinson in "The Hotel Inspectors" episode of Fawlty Towers (1975), and the belligerent barman in Alfred Hitchcock's Frenzy (1972). He was a regular and prolific reader for the BBC's Jackanory from 1966 to 1991.

Having appeared as Tom Campbell, a companion to Dr. Who in the feature film Daleks' Invasion Earth 2150 A.D. (1966), Cribbins appeared in Doctor Who four decades later as Wilfred Mott, the grandfather of Donna Noble, the companion to television's Tenth Doctor.

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Bernard passed away 28th July 2022 aged 93

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TV & FILM HIGHLIGHTS
1960 - Two Way Stretch

1963 - Carry on Jack

1964 - Carry on Spying

1966 - The Avengers

1970 - The Railway Children
1973 - The Wombles

1975 - Fawlty Towers

1976 - Space:1999

1979 - Worzel Gummidge

1979 - Jackanory

1979 - The Water Babies

1987 - Super Gran

1992 - Carry on Columbus

2003 - Last of the Summer Wine

2003 - Coronation Street

2005 - Down to Earth

2007 - Doctor Who

2014 - Midsomer Murders

2015 - New Tricks