Bernard Cribbins

CrewActor Dec 29 (died age 93) Oldham, Lancashire, England, UK 1955–2024 (69 year career)

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Biography

Bernard Cribbins (29 December 1928 - 27 July 2022) was an English character actor, voice-over artist and musical comedian with a career spanning over half a century who came to prominence in films in the 1960s, had been in work consistently since his professional debut in the mid 1950s, and as of 2010 had still been an active performer. He was particularly known to British audiences as the story-telling voice in The Wombles, a children's programme running which ran for 40 episodes between 1973…

Known For

Film

Frenzy

Felix Forsythe

Film

Doctor Who: Voyage of the Damned

Wilfred Mott

Film

Patrick

Albert

Film

Doctor Who

In Memory Of

Film

Casino Royale

Taxi Driver

Film

A Fantastic Fear of Everything

The Voice (voice)

Film

The Railway Children

Albert Perks

Film

Dunkirk

Thirsty Sailor (uncredited)

Filmography

Acting (127)

Movies (69)

Looking for Lennie

2019

Patrick

2018

as Albert

6.7

The Lake District: A Wild Year

2017

as Self - Narrator (voice)

8.0

A Midsummer Night's Dream

2016

as Snout

4.9

CBeebies Prom: From the Royal Albert Hall

2014

as Self - Presenter

Doctor Who Live: The Next Doctor

2013

as Self

5.0

Doctor Who Live: The Afterparty

2013

as Self

9.0

Produced by George Martin

2012

as Self

7.4

A Fantastic Fear of Everything

as The Voice (voice)

Run For Your Wife

as Hospital Patient

CBeebies Presents: Jack And The Beanstalk

2012

as Narrator

10.0

Doctor Who: The End of Time

2010

as Wilfred Mott

Fawlty Towers: Re-Opened

2009

as Self

8.0

Peter Kay's Animated All Star Band: The Official BBC Children in Need Medley

2009

as Alderney / Orinoco / Wellington (voice)

9.0

Doctor Who: Voyage of the Damned

2007

as Wilfred Mott

7.6

The Children's Party at the Palace

2006

as Station Guard

1.8

The Funny Blokes of British Comedy

2005

as Mr. Hutchinson (archive footage) (uncredited)

Blackball

as Mutley

What's a Carry On?

as Self (uncredited)

Carry On Columbus

as Mordecai Mendoza

Customers From Hell

Stories of the Sylvanian Families

1988

as Narrator

8.0

When We Are Married

1987

as Herbert Soppitt

Hammer: The Studio That Dripped Blood

1987

as Job (archive footage)

6.4

It's Your Move

1982

as Neighbour

8.2

Dangerous Davies: The Last Detective

as Dangerous Davies

The Plank

as House painter

Round Robin

The Adventures of Picasso

1978

as Gertrude Stein / Narrator (voice)

Play Safe

as Robin (voice)

The Water Babies

as Mr. Masterman / Voice of Eel

6.0

That's Carry On!

1977

as Agent Harold Crump / Midshipman Albert Poop-Decker (archive footage)

5.7

The Country Wife

1977

as Pinchwife

Night Ferry

1976

as Pyramid

5.1

James and the Giant Peach

1976

as Centipede

6.0

Great Big Groovy Horse

1975

as The Storyteller

More Awkward Customers

1975

as Awkward Customer: Mr. Clam

I Know What I Like

as Himself

Frenzy

as Felix Forsythe

The Railway Children

as Albert Perks

'G.I.G.O Garbage In, Garbage Out' Computer History - A British View

1969

Don't Raise the Bridge, Lower the River

as Fred Davies

Casino Royale

as Taxi Driver

A Ghost of a Chance

as Ron

The Sandwich Man

as Photographer

Daleks' Invasion Earth: 2150 A.D.

as Tom Campbell

Cup Fever

as Policeman

You Must Be Joking

as Sergeant Clegg

The Bargain

She

as Job

Carry On Jack

as Midshipman Albert Poop-Decker

5.9

Carry On Spying

1964

as Agent Harold Crump

6.4

The Counterfeit Constable

as Bob, l'agent 202

Crooks in Cloisters

as Squirts McGinty

A Home of Your Own

as The Stonemason

The Wrong Arm of the Law

1963

as Nervous O'Toole

6.5

The Mouse on the Moon

1963

as Vincent Mountjoy

6.1

The Fast Lady

1962

as Man on Stretcher (uncredited)

The Girl on the Boat

as Peters

The Best of Enemies

as Col. Brownlow

Nothing Barred

as Newspaperman

Visa to Canton

as Pereira

Two-Way Stretch

as Lennie Price

The World of Suzie Wong

as Otis

Make Mine a Million

as Jack

Tommy the Toreador

as Paco

Dunkirk

as Thirsty Sailor (uncredited)

6.8

Davy

1958

as Stage Hand (uncredited)

5.0

Yangtse Incident: The Story of H.M.S. Amethyst

1957

as Able Seaman James Bryson

7.2

Television (58)

Doctor Who

2024

as Wilfred Mott

6.4

The Wombles

2016

Old Jack's Boat: Rockpool Tales

2015

as Old Jack

Old Jack's Boat

2013

as Old Jack

Old Jack's Boat

2013

as Old Jack

Salty's Waggy Tales

2013

as Old Jack

Pointless Celebrities

2011

as Self

6.3

Celebrity Antiques Road Trip

2011

as Self - Participant

5.0

The National Television Awards Backstage Live

2010

Doctor Who Greatest Moments

as Self

Would I Lie to You?

as Self

The One Show

as Self

Doctor Who

as Self

The Friday Night Project

as Self

Midsomer Murders

as Duggie Wingate

Never Mind the Buzzcocks

as Self - Panellist

Dalziel & Pascoe

Dennis the Menace and Gnasher

1996

as Katzenburger (voice)

6.2

Noel's Telly Years

1996

The World of Hammer

1994

as Self (archive footage)

I, Lovett

as Snowman (voice)

Tonight at 8.30

as Mr Wahurst

Have I Got News for You

as Self

Bertie the Bat

as Narrator

Stories of the Sylvanian Families

1988

as Narrator

Noel's Saturday Roadshow

Going Live!

as Self

Daytime Live

High & Dry

as Ron Archer

Langley Bottom

as Seth Raven

Super Gran

1985

as Officer P. Brain

6.3

Alice in Wonderland

1985

as Mock Turtle

Moschops

as Narrator

Cuffy

as Cuffy

Shillingbury Tales

as Cuffy

Tales of the Unexpected

as Charlie Krebs

Worzel Gummidge

as Jolly Jack

Tell Me Another

as Himself

Simon in the Land of Chalk Drawings

Star Turn

Fawlty Towers

as Mr. Hutchinson

Space: 1999

as Captain Michael

Last of the Summer Wine

as Gavin Hinchcliffe

The Wombles

as Narrator

Get The Drift

Cribbins

Ooh La La!

Cilla

as Self

BBC Play of the Month

as Pinchwife

Theatre 625

as Larry

The Avengers

as Arkwright

Drama 61-67

as Ernest Skinner

Sunday-Night Play

1960

as Lord Fancourt Babberley

Interpol Calling

1959

as Sid

6.7

International Detective

as Pasquale

Armchair Theatre

as Charlie Baker

The Sooty Show

as Himself

Have I Got a Bit More News for You

as Self - Panellist

7.0

Crew (1)

Television (1)

Doctor Who

2024

In Memory Of

6.4