Bernard Cribbins

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Bernard Cribbins as Captain Michael in Space: 1999, episode: Brian the Brain (1976).
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Bernard Cribbins as Captain Michael in Space: 1999, episode: Brian the Brain (1976).

Bernard Cribbins (born December 29, 1928 in Oldham, Lancashire) is an English character actor and musical comedian.

Early in his career, he released a number of comedy records, including "Right Said Fred" (in which a group of workmen struggle to move a large unspecified object, possibly a piano) and "Hole in the Ground". He has appeared in many British films, including three Carry On films, one of the Doctor Who films, and as the station porter, Perks, in The Railway Children. He was the narrator of the British animated children's TV series The Wombles. He also narrated a celebrated BBC radio adaptation of The Wind in the Willows. He appeared in 111 episodes of Jackanory. Other television appearances included Fawlty Towers, as the spoon salesman Mr Hutchinson (mistaken by Basil Fawlty for an inspector) in the episode "The Hotel Inspectors" (1975).

In 2003 he played Wally Bannister in the long running soap Coronation Street.

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[edit] Other TV appearances

  • High and Dry
  • Langley Bottom
  • The Shillingbury Miracle
  • The Shillingbury Tinker
  • When We Are Married
  • Space: 1999 episode Brian the Brain (1976)
  • "Simon in the Land of Chalk Drawings" (Narrator)

[edit] Films

[edit] UK chart singles

  • "Hole In The Ground" (1962)
  • "Right Said Fred" (1962) which inspired the name of the band Right Said Fred
  • "Gossip Calypso" (1962)

[edit] Albums

  • A Combination Of Cribbins (1962)
  • The Very Best of Bernard Cribbins (2005)

[edit] External links

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