voc, *1928 GB, Oldham
Singer of Spoken Word and Pop
Bernard Cribbins (born 29 December 1928, Derker, Oldham, Lancashire, England) is 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 1960's, has been in work consistently since his professional debut in the mid 1950's, and as of 2010 is still an active performer. Cribbins served an apprenticeship at the Oldham Repertory Theatre, taking a break during his years of study to undertake National Service with the Parachute Regiment in his late teens Cribbins made his first West End theatre appearance in 1956 at the Arts Theatre playing the two Dromios in A Comedy of Errors and co-starred in the first West End productions of Not Now Darling, There Goes the Bride and Run For Your Wife. He also starred in the revue An' Another Thing, and recorded a single of a song from the show entitled "Folksong". In 1962 he recorded two highly popular and well-remembered comic songs, "Right Said Fred" (in which a group of workmen struggle to relocate what would seem to be a piano) and "Hole in the Ground" (in which an embittered workman murders a bowler-hatted harasser). Cribbins appeared in films from the early 1950's, his credits include three Carry On films, the second Doctor Who film Daleks - Invasion Earth 2150 AD, and as the station porter, Perks, in The Railway Children (1970). He returned to the revival Doctor Who series as Wilfred Mott alongside David Tennant. He was the narrator of the British animated children's TV series The Wombles, as well as Simon in the Land of Chalk Drawings. He also narrated a celebrated BBC radio adaptation of The Wind in the Willows and provided the voice of the Tufty character in RoSPA road safety films in the 1960's. He was the reader in more episodes of Jackanory than any other person, with a total of 114 appearances. Other television appearances included Fawlty Towers, as the spoon salesman Mr. Hutchinson (mistaken by Basil Fawlty for a hotel inspector) in the episode "The Hotel Inspectors" (1975).
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Title | Artist | Year | Type |
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The Hobbit: The Classic BBC TV Jackanory Reading | J.R.R. Tolkien Read By Bernard Cribbins, Maurice Denham, Jan Francis & David Wood | 2013 | Album |
The Wombles | Bernard Cribbins | 2011 | Album |
Doctor Who: Beautiful Chaos | Bernard Cribbins | 2009 | Album |
The Very Best Of Bernard Cribbins | Bernard Cribbins | 2004 | Compil. |
Selected Stories From Winnie The Pooh | Alan Alexander Milne, Bernard Cribbins | 2002 | Album |
Harry Secombe Presents The Highway Companion | Wendy Craig & Bernard Cribbins And The Choir Of Her Majesty's Chapel Royal | 1987 | Album |
Right Said Fred / The Hole In The Ground | Bernard Cribbins | 1980 | Single |
Bernard Cribbins | Bernard Cribbins | 1980 | Compil. |
Giggling Gertie The Laughing Traffic Warden | Bernard Cribbins | 1980 | Single |
Make Someone Happy Every Day | Buzby Featuring Bernard Cribbins | 1979 | Single |
The Perishers Sing | Bernard Cribbins, Nicky James, Barbara Sexton | 1979 | Album |
Pinocchio | Carlo Collodi, Bernard Cribbins | 1978 | Album |
Womble Stories | Bernard Cribbins | 1976 | Album |
Paddington Bear Volume 2 | Michael Bond, Bernard Cribbins | 1975 | Album |
Paddington Bear At The Seaside | Bernard Cribbins | 1975 | Album |
I'm Hans Christian Andersen | Bernard Cribbins | 1975 | Single |
Paddington Bear Volume 1 | Michael Bond, Bernard Cribbins | 1975 | Album |
Paddington Bear Volume 4 | Michael Bond, Bernard Cribbins | 1975 | Album |
Paddington Bear Volume 3 | Michael Bond, Bernard Cribbins | 1975 | Album |
Songs From The Score Of The Lavish Palladium Musical Hans Andersen | Bernard Cribbins And Mike Sammes Singers Accompanied By Harry Robinson And His Orchestra | 1975 | Album |
Paddington Bear | Bernard Cribbins / Trudi Van Doorn | 1974 | Single |
The Best Of Bernard Cribbins | Bernard Cribbins | 1970 | Compil. |
The Wizard Of Oz | Bernard Cribbins | 1970 | Album |
Sing Lennon & McCartney | Cilla Black / Peter & Gordon / Bernard Cribbins / David & Jonathan / The Fourmost / Billy J. Kramer / Kenny Lynch | 1970 | Compil. |
4 Sucessos | The Young Ideas / Bernard Cribbins / Herman's Hermits / Salena Jones | 1967 | Compil. |
When I'm Sixty Four | Bernard Cribbins | 1967 | Single |
Ringing On The Engine Bell | Bernard Cribbins | 1964 | Single |
The Bird On The Second Floor | Bernard Cribbins | 1963 | Single |
A Combination Of Cribbins | Bernard Cribbins | 1962 | Album |
Gossip Calypso | Bernard Cribbins | 1962 | Single |
Little Mary Sunshine (Original London Cast ) | Bernard Cribbins, Patricia Routledge | 1962 | Album |
The Hole In The Ground / And All the While | Bernard Cribbins | 1962 | Single |
The Hole In The Ground | Bernard Cribbins | 1962 | Single |
Right, Said Fred | Bernard Cribbins | 1962 | Single |
The Hole In The Ground | Bernard Cribbins | 1962 | Single |
Folk Song | Bernard Cribbins | 1960 | Single |
A Personal Message About Your New Hornby Train Set | Bernard Cribbins | Single |