Cribbins giving a reading of Rudyard Kipling's poem "Tommy" in 2015
Born
Bernard Joseph Cribbins
(1928-12-29)29 December 1928
Derker, Lancashire, England
Died
27 July 2022(2022-07-27) (aged 93)[a]
Resting place
Woking Crematorium, Woking, Surrey, England
Occupations
Actor
singer
Years active
1943–2022
Spouse
Gillian McBarnet
(m. 1955; died 2021)
Military career
Allegiance
United Kingdom
Service/branch
British Army
Years of service
1946–1949
Rank
Private
Unit
Parachute Regiment
2nd Battalion, Parachute Regiment
3rd Battalion, Parachute Regiment
Battles/wars
Palestine Emergency
Bernard Joseph CribbinsOBE (29 December 1928 – 27 July 2022[a]) was an English actor and singer whose career spanning nearly eight decades.
During the 1960s, Cribbins became known in the UK for his successful novelty records "The Hole in the Ground" and "Right Said Fred" and for his appearances in comedy films including Two-Way Stretch (1960) and the Carry On series. His other screen roles include the astronaut Vincent Mountjoy in The Mouse on the Moon (1963), Albert Perks in The Railway Children (1970), the barman Felix Forsythe in Alfred Hitchcock's Frenzy (1972) and the pretentious hotel guest Mr Hutchinson in the Fawlty Towers episode "The Hotel Inspectors" (1975). On television, he was a regular and prolific reader for the BBC series Jackanory from 1966 to 1991, he narrated the children's programme The Wombles (1973–1975) and he played the title role in the CBeebies series Old Jack's Boat (2013–2015).
In the 1966 film Daleks' Invasion Earth 2150 A.D., Cribbins portrayed Tom Campbell, a companion to Dr. Who. 41 years later, he began appearing in the revival series of Doctor Who as Wilfred Mott, the grandfather of regular companion Donna Noble and a temporary companion to the Tenth Doctor. He made his final appearance posthumously in the 60th anniversary special "Wild Blue Yonder" (2023).
Cite error: There are <ref group=lower-alpha> tags or {{efn}} templates on this page, but the references will not show without a {{reflist|group=lower-alpha}} template or {{notelist}} template (see the help page).
^ abRice, Nicolas (28 July 2022). "Bernard Cribbins, Doctor Who Star and Wombles Narrator, Dead at 93: 'A Legend Has Left the World'". People. Archived from the original on 28 July 2022. Retrieved 28 July 2022.
^Coveney, Michael (28 July 2022). "Bernard Cribbins obituary". The Guardian. Archived from the original on 28 July 2022. Retrieved 28 July 2022.
^"Bernard Cribbins, comic actor whose panoply of characters included Perks in The Railway Children and the voices of the Wombles – obituary". The Daily Telegraph. 28 July 2022. Archived from the original on 28 July 2022. Retrieved 28 July 2022.
^"Bernard Cribbins, Doctor Who star, dies at 93". The Times. 28 July 2022. Archived from the original on 28 July 2022. Retrieved 28 July 2022.
Bernard Joseph Cribbins OBE (29 December 1928 – 27 July 2022) was an English actor and singer whose career spanning nearly eight decades. During the 1960s...
Davies reconceived Cribbins' role as Donna's grandfather and replaced Attfield with him for the fourth series. In May 2022, Cribbins was reportedly due...
appeared on The Film Programme on BBC Radio 4 on 30 May 2013, with BernardCribbins, in which they looked back at their roles in the Dr. Who films of the...
introduced BernardCribbins as Wilfred Mott, later revealed to be Donna's grandfather, who would continue to recur across series four. Cribbins was not originally...
with Jim Dale making a cameo appearance as a sedan chair carrier. BernardCribbins makes the first of his three appearances in a Carry On. Juliet Mills...
Timothy Dalton, Alexandra Moen, Lucy Saxon, Catherine Tate, Donna Noble, BernardCribbins, Wilf, Comic-Con". Archived from the original on 27 August 2009. Retrieved...
Foster and features Billie Whitelaw, Anna Massey, Barbara Leigh-Hunt, BernardCribbins and Vivien Merchant. The original music score was composed by Ron Goodwin...
(Sara Crowe), to wreck the trip... Jim Dale as Christopher Columbus BernardCribbins as Mordecai Mendoza Maureen Lipman as Countess Esmerelda Peter Richardson...
had earlier been made into a film for television in 1981. It starred BernardCribbins and was scripted by Leslie Thomas. Davies is a low-ranked CID (mentioned...
specials before being accompanied by Donna's grandfather Wilfred Mott (BernardCribbins) on his final adventure in "The End of Time". Tennant also played the...
Nedwell, Diane Keen, Nigel Lambert, Jack Douglas, John Le Mesurier, and BernardCribbins. Unusually for a British situation-comedy at that time it was recorded...
Bernard Cribbins (1928–2022), English children's TV personality, actor and voice artist Bernard Dowiyogo (1946–2003), President of Nauru Bernard Ebbers...
Toad of Toad Hall, on 21 April 1973, BBC Radio 4, with Derek Smith, BernardCribbins, Richard Goolden, and Cyril Luckham. Six episodes from 28 April to...
written by Myles Rudge and composed by Ted Dicks. When recorded by BernardCribbins and released by EMI on the Parlophone label in 1962, it was a number...
fur on the neck. There is an audiobook of The Wombles, narrated by BernardCribbins. Beresford wrote a collection of short stories entitled The Invisible...
Captain Kangaroo (where it was narrated by Bob Keeshan instead of BernardCribbins), later on Pinwheel, and after that, on Romper Room. In Canada, it...
Global Information