Bernard Cribbins (born December 29, 1928) is a British character actor and musical comedian. He was born in Oldham, Lancashire.
He released a number of comedy records, appeared in three Carry On films and 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 also appeared in Fawlty Towers as the spoon salesman Mr Hutchinson in the episode "The Hotel Inspectors" (1975).
TV - Dangerous Davis - The Last Detective: High and Dry: Langley Bottom: The Shillingbury Miracle: The Shillingbury Tinker: When We Are Married.
In 2003 he played a dirty old man in the form of Wally Bannister in the long running soap, Coronation Street
Films
- Carry On Columbus
- Carry On Jack
- Crooks in Cloisters
- The Railway Children
- The Water Babies
- The Wrong Arm of the Law
- Two Way Stretch (1960)
- Hole In The Ground (1962)
- Right Said Fred (1962) which inspired the name of the band Right Said Fred
- Gossip Calypso (1962)
External links
- http://theavengers.tv/forever/pnote-cribbins.htm
- http://www.stuart.cann.freeuk.com/bernard.htm (Note Bernard Cribbins' dotting of both 'i's in his surname)