Bernard Cribbins

from Oldham, Lancashire, England, UK

Artwork for Casino RoyaleImage of Bernard Cribbins

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 and 1975. He also recorded several hit novelty records in the early 1960s and was a regular and prolific performer on Jackanory on BBC TV between 1966 and 1991. Cribbins' most recent prominent role had been as Wilfred Mott, companion of the Tenth Doctor in Doctor Who.

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Timeline

2019Aged 91

2018Aged 90

  • Poster for Patrick

    Albert

2017Aged 89

  • Poster for The Lake District: A Wild Year

    Self - Narrator (voice)

2016Aged 88

  • Poster for A Midsummer Night's Dream

    Snout

2014Aged 86

  • Poster for CBeebies Prom: From the Royal Albert Hall

    Self - Presenter

2013Aged 85

  • Poster for Doctor Who Live: The Next Doctor

    Self

  • Poster for Doctor Who Live: The Afterparty

    Self

2012Aged 84

  • Poster for Run For Your Wife

    Hospital Patient

  • Poster for A Fantastic Fear of Everything

    The Voice (voice)

  • Poster for Produced by George Martin

    Self

  • Poster for CBeebies Presents: Jack And The Beanstalk

    Narrator

2010Aged 82

  • Poster for Doctor Who: The End of Time

    Wilfred Mott

2009Aged 81

  • Poster for Fawlty Towers: Re-Opened

    Self

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

    Alderney / Orinoco / Wellington (voice)

2007Aged 79

  • Poster for Doctor Who: Voyage of the Damned

    Wilfred Mott

2006Aged 78

  • Poster for The Children's Party at the Palace

    Station Guard

2005Aged 77

2003Aged 75

  • Poster for Blackball

    Mutley

1998Aged 70

  • Poster for What's a Carry On?

    Self (uncredited)

1992Aged 64

  • Poster for Carry On Columbus

    Mordecai Mendoza

1989Aged 61

  • Poster for Customers From Hell

    (Unknown)

1988Aged 60

  • Poster for Stories of the Sylvanian Families

    Narrator

1987Aged 59

  • Poster for Hammer: The Studio That Dripped Blood

    Job (archive footage)

  • Poster for When We Are Married

    Herbert Soppitt

1985Aged 57

  • Poster for Alice in Wonderland

    Mock Turtle (voice)

1982Aged 54

  • Poster for It's Your Move

    Neighbour

1981Aged 53

  • Poster for Dangerous Davies: The Last Detective

    Dangerous Davies

1979Aged 51

1978Aged 50

  • Poster for Play Safe

    Robin (voice)

  • Poster for The Adventures of Picasso

    Gertrude Stein / Narrator (voice)

  • Poster for The Water Babies

    Mr. Masterman / Voice of Eel

1977Aged 49

  • Poster for The Country Wife

    Pinchwife

  • Poster for That's Carry On!

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

1976Aged 48

  • Poster for Night Ferry

    Pyramid

  • Poster for James and the Giant Peach

    Centipede

1975Aged 47

1973Aged 45

  • Poster for I Know What I Like

    Himself

1972Aged 44

  • Poster for Frenzy

    Felix Forsythe

1970Aged 42

  • Poster for The Railway Children

    Albert Perks

1968Aged 40

  • Poster for Don't Raise the Bridge, Lower the River

    Fred Davies

1967Aged 39

  • Poster for A Ghost of a Chance

    Ron

  • Poster for Casino Royale

    Taxi Driver

1966Aged 38

  • Poster for The Sandwich Man

    Photographer

  • Poster for Daleks' Invasion Earth: 2150 A.D.

    Tom Campbell

1965Aged 37

1964Aged 36

  • Poster for Crooks in Cloisters

    Squirts McGinty

  • Poster for Carry On Jack

    Midshipman Albert Poop-Decker

  • Poster for Carry On Spying

    Agent Harold Crump

  • Poster for The Counterfeit Constable

    Bob, l'agent 202

  • Poster for A Home of Your Own

    The Stonemason

1963Aged 35

  • Poster for The Wrong Arm of the Law

    Nervous O'Toole

  • Poster for The Mouse on the Moon

    Vincent Mountjoy

1962Aged 34

  • Poster for The Girl on the Boat

    Peters

  • Poster for The Fast Lady

    Man on Stretcher (uncredited)

1961Aged 33

  • Poster for Nothing Barred

    Newspaperman

  • Poster for The Best of Enemies

    Col. Brownlow

1960Aged 32

  • Poster for The World of Suzie Wong

    Otis

  • Poster for Two-Way Stretch

    Lennie Price

  • Poster for Visa to Canton

    Pereira

1959Aged 31

  • Poster for Make Mine a Million

    Jack

  • Poster for Tommy the Toreador

    Paco

1958Aged 30

  • Poster for Davy

    Stage Hand (uncredited)

  • Poster for Dunkirk

    Thirsty Sailor (uncredited)

1957Aged 29

  • Poster for Yangtse Incident: The Story of H.M.S. Amethyst

    Able Seaman James Bryson