Bernard Cribbins

Bernard Cribbins

Bernard Joseph Cribbins, OBE, is an English actor, comedian, and singer. During the 1960s, he became known in the UK for his successful novelty records. He appeared in comedy films including Two-Way Stretch and the Carry On series. Also appeared as pretentious hotel guest Mr. Hutchinson in the Fawlty Towers episode ‘The Hotel Inspectors’

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Summary Bernard CribbinsBernard Joseph Cribbins, OBE, is an English actor, comedian, and singer. During the 1960s, he became known in the UK for his successful novelty records. He appeared in comedy films including Two-Way Stretch and the Carry On series. He also appeared as pretentious hotel guest Mr. Hutchinson in the Fawlty Towers episode ‘The Hotel Inspectors’ He narrated the BBC children’s television programme The Wombles and was a prolific reader for the BBC series Jackanory from 1966 to 1991. In 1981, he voiced the robin in the film The robin, starring Brian Wilde. He was the voice of Buzby, a talking bird that was the mascot for the Post Office. He is the only actor to have played two separate companions when 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. In 1996, he was awarded an OBE for services to acting and comedy. He has also been awarded a CBE in the Queen’s Birthday Honours list.

He lives in Oldham, Lancashire, with his wife and two children. He currently lives with his family in the south of England in the town of Chadderton. He and his wife have two children, a son and a daughter. They have three grandchildren and one great-grandchild. Crib bins has two step-daughters and one step-great-granddaughter. He had a son in 2011 and a step-son in 2013. He now has a daughter and a son-in-law, both of whom live in the north of England. His son and daughter are both actors and have appeared in a number of films, including The Railway Children and Alfred Hitchcock’s Frenzy. His daughter has appeared in several television shows and has appeared on The Voice and The X-Files. He played Tom Campbell, a companion to Dr. Who in the 1966 film Daleks’ Invasion Earth 2150 A. D. as Special Police Constable Tom Campbell; She ; Casino Royale as a taxi driver; and the Alfred Hitchcock thriller Frenzy as Felix Forsythe.