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'''Bernard Joseph Cribbins''' (29 December 1928 – 27 July 2022) was an English actor and singer whose career spanned over eight decades.
'''Bernard Joseph Cribbins''' {{Post-nominals|country=GBR|size=100%|OBE}} (29 December 1928 – 27 July 2022{{Efn|name = deathdate|''[[The Guardian]]'' and ''[[People (magazine)|People]]'' reported that Cribbins died on 27 July;<ref name = Rice>{{cite magazine|url = https://people.com/tv/bernard-cribbins-doctor-who-star-and-wombles-narrator-dead-at-93/|title = Bernard Cribbins, Doctor Who Star and Wombles Narrator, Dead at 93: 'A Legend Has Left the World'|magazine = [[People (magazine)|People]]|date = 28 July 2022|accessdate = 28 July 2022|last = Rice|first = Nicolas|archive-date = 28 July 2022|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20220728220357/https://people.com/tv/bernard-cribbins-doctor-who-star-and-wombles-narrator-dead-at-93/|url-status = live}}</ref><ref name = Coveney>{{cite news|url = https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2022/jul/28/bernard-cribbins-obituary|title = Bernard Cribbins obituary|newspaper = [[The Guardian]]|last = Coveney|first = Michael|date = 28 July 2022|accessdate = 28 July 2022|archive-date = 28 July 2022|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20220728220425/https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2022/jul/28/bernard-cribbins-obituary|url-status = live}}</ref> the latter cited a statement from his agent.<ref name=Rice/> Other journalistic sources reported that he died on 28 July, the date his death was announced.<ref name = Telegraph>{{cite news|url = https://www.telegraph.co.uk/obituaries/2022/07/28/bernard-cribbins-comic-actor-whose-panoply-characters-included/|title = Bernard Cribbins, comic actor whose panoply of characters included Perks in The Railway Children and the voices of the Wombles – obituary|newspaper = [[The Daily Telegraph]]|date = 28 July 2022|accessdate = 28 July 2022|url-access = subscription|archive-date = 28 July 2022|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20220728111840/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/obituaries/2022/07/28/bernard-cribbins-comic-actor-whose-panoply-characters-included/|url-status = live}}</ref><ref name = TimesObit>{{cite news|url = https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/bernard-cribbins-doctor-who-star-dies-at-93-xvk7vnmjn|title = Bernard Cribbins, Doctor Who star, dies at 93|newspaper = [[The Times]]|date = 28 July 2022|accessdate = 28 July 2022|url-access = subscription|archive-date = 28 July 2022|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20220728220358/https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/bernard-cribbins-doctor-who-star-dies-at-93-xvk7vnmjn|url-status = live}}</ref>}}) was an English actor and singer whose career spanned over eight decades.▼
During the 1960s, Cribbins became known in the UK for his successful [[novelty record]]s "[[The Hole in the Ground]]" and "[[Right Said Fred (song)|Right Said Fred]]" and for his appearances in comedy films including ''[[Two-Way Stretch]]'' (1960) and the ''[[Carry On (franchise)|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 film)|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 TV series)|The Wombles]]'' (1973–1975) and he played the title role in the [[CBeebies]] series ''[[Old Jack's Boat]]'' (2013–2015).
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==Early life==
Bernard Joseph Cribbins was born on 29 December 1928 in the [[Derker]] area of [[Oldham]], [[Lancashire]], the son of [[First World War]] veteran John Edward Cribbins (1896–1964) and Ethel (''née'' Clarkson; 1898–1989), a cotton weaver.<ref name="BBCobit">{{cite news |title=Obituary: Bernard Cribbins |work=BBC News |date=28 July 2022 |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-13099773 |access-date=28 July 2022 |archive-date=28 July 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220728083826/https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-13099773 |url-status=live }}</ref><ref name=Coveney /> He had two sisters, alongside whom he grew up close to poverty.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Maxwell |first=Dominic |date=November 28, 2018 |title=Bernard Cribbins — nearly 90 and still the nation's favourite uncle |url=https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/bernard-cribbins-nearly-90-and-still-the-nations-favourite-uncle-99zmr63f2 |url-access=subscription |access-date=July 29, 2022 |website=[[The Times]] |archive-date=1 January 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220101230636/https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/bernard-cribbins-nearly-90-and-still-the-nations-favourite-uncle-99zmr63f2 |url-status=live }}</ref> He described his father as a "[[Jack of all trades, master of none|jack of all trades]]" who also dabbled in acting.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Hepburn |first=David |date=July 28, 2022 |title=Bernard Cribbins dies at age 93: Who was the Doctor Who actor, how did he find fame and what was he best known for? |url=https://www.scotsman.com/whats-on/bernard-cribbins-dies-at-age-93-who-was-the-doctor-who-actor-how-did-he-find-fame-and-what-was-he-best-known-for-3784966 |access-date=July 29, 2022 |website=[[The Scotsman]] |archive-date=28 July 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220728230214/https://www.scotsman.com/whats-on/bernard-cribbins-dies-at-age-93-who-was-the-doctor-who-actor-how-did-he-find-fame-and-what-was-he-best-known-for-3784966 |url-status=live }}</ref>
Cribbins left school at the age of 13 and found a job as an [[assistant stage manager]] at a local theatre club, where he also took on some small acting roles,<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2014/jul/24/bernard-cribbins-cbeebies-prom|title=Bernard Cribbins: 'I made Noël Coward's favourite record'|first=Simon|last=Hattenstone|date=24 July 2014|newspaper=The Guardian|access-date=15 July 2019|archive-date=28 July 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220728220357/https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2014/jul/24/bernard-cribbins-cbeebies-prom|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.lancashirelife.co.uk/people/celebrity-interviews/bernard-cribbins-lancashire-s-theatrical-treasure-1-1636558|title=Bernard Cribbins, Lancashire's theatrical treasure|website=Lancashire Life|date=9 February 2010|access-date=15 July 2019|archive-date=15 July 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190715184122/https://www.lancashirelife.co.uk/people/celebrity-interviews/bernard-cribbins-lancashire-s-theatrical-treasure-1-1636558|url-status=live}}</ref> and then served an apprenticeship at the [[Oldham Coliseum Theatre|Oldham Repertory Theatre]].<ref name="bbc2022">{{cite news |title=Obituary: Bernard Cribbins |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-13099773 |access-date=12 October 2022 |publisher=BBC News |date=28 July 2022}}</ref> In 1947, he began [[Conscription in the United Kingdom#After 1945|national service]] with the [[Parachute Regiment (United Kingdom)|Parachute Regiment]] in [[Aldershot|Aldershot, Hampshire]],<ref name="GavBark">{{cite web |url=http://www.gavinbarkerassociates.co.uk/actors/bernard-cribbins.htm |title=Bernard Cribbins |website=Gavin Barker Associates |access-date=5 April 2008 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080503124443/http://www.gavinbarkerassociates.co.uk/actors/bernard-cribbins.htm |archive-date=3 May 2008 }}</ref> including a posting to [[Mandatory Palestine]].<ref>{{cite web |title=Roll Call: Private Bernard Cribbins, OBE |website=ParaData |url=http://www.paradata.org.uk/people/bernard-cribbins |access-date=31 August 2015 |archive-date=24 September 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150924064747/http://www.paradata.org.uk/people/bernard-cribbins |url-status=live }}</ref><ref name="bbc2022"/>
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===Narration and voice work===
Cribbins was the narrator of the British animated children's television series ''[[The Wombles]]'' from 1973 to 1975 and also played the character of the Water Rat in a [[BBC
In the 1960s Cribbins provided the voice of the character [[Green Cross Code#Tufty Fluffytail|Tufty]] in [[Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents|RoSPA]] road safety films.<ref>{{Cite web |date=15 February 2006 |title=In Tufty's club |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/4690166.stm |access-date=28 July 2022 |publisher=[[BBC]] |archive-date=22 December 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071222032943/http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/4690166.stm |url-status=live }}</ref> He also provided the voice of [[Buzby]], a talking cartoon bird that was the mascot for the [[General Post Office|Post Office]].<ref name="bbc2022"/> He also appeared in advertisements for [[Hornby Railways|Hornby]] model trains.<ref name="Screenonline"/> In 1978, he provided one of two voiceovers in the electricity safety [[public information film]] [[Play Safe (public information film)|Play Safe]]. The other voice artist was [[Brian Wilde]]; Wilde voiced the [[owl]] and Cribbins voiced the [[European robin|robin]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=Play Safe (1978) |url=https://www2.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b6d73aca8 |access-date=28 July 2022 |publisher=[[British Film Institute]] |archive-date=29 October 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211029205705/https://www2.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b6d73aca8 |url-status=dead }}</ref> In 1981, [[Music for Pleasure (record label)|Music for Pleasure]] released a ''[[Swallows and Amazons]]'' audio book on tape cassette, read by Cribbins, abridged by Edward Phillips.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://allthingsransome.net/literary/archildrensbooks/SAtape81.htm |title=Swallows and Amazons cassette (abridged) 1981 |access-date=4 June 2020 |archive-date=20 September 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150920032615/http://allthingsransome.net/literary/archildrensbooks/SAtape81.htm |url-status=dead }}</ref>
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Having played [[List of companions in Doctor Who spin-offs#Tom Campbell|Tom Campbell]], a [[Companion (Doctor Who)|companion]] to [[Dr. Who (Dalek films)|Dr. Who]] in the feature film ''[[Daleks' Invasion Earth 2150 A.D.]]'' (1966), Cribbins returned to ''[[Doctor Who]]'' in 2006, when a photograph of him and fellow ''Doctor Who'' actor [[Lynda Baron]] at a wedding appeared on the BBC's tie-in website for the television episode "[[Tooth and Claw (Doctor Who)|Tooth and Claw]]".<ref>{{Cite web|title=Weddings|url=http://www.visittorchwood.co.uk/weddings-quotes.htm|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190402192941/http://www.visittorchwood.co.uk/weddings-quotes.htm|archive-date=2 April 2019|access-date=28 July 2021|website=Torchwood House}}</ref>
In January 2007, Cribbins had a guest role as glam rock promoter Arnold Korns in ''[[Horror of Glam Rock]]'', a ''Doctor Who'' audiodrama by [[Big Finish Productions]]. In December 2007, he appeared as [[Wilfred Mott]] in the Christmas television special, "[[Voyage of the Damned (Doctor Who)|Voyage of the Damned]]" (although in the closing credits, his character was named as "Stan") ; he then appeared in a recurring capacity as Wilfred Mott for the [[Doctor Who (series 4)|2008 series]], as the grandfather of [[Companion (Doctor Who)|companion]] [[Donna Noble]].<ref>{{Cite magazine |title=Into the Future! |magazine=[[Doctor Who Magazine]] |page=4 |issue=386 |date=19 September 2007}}</ref> He became a [[Tenth Doctor]] temporary companion himself in "[[The End of Time (Doctor Who)|The End of Time]]", the two-part 2009–10 Christmas and New Year special, when his character was inadvertently responsible for that Doctor's demise. Cribbins's role as Wilfred Mott makes him the only actor to have played two companions<ref name="bbc2022"/> and the only actor featured
==Honours==
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In 2018 his autobiography, ''Bernard Who? 75 Years of Doing Just About Anything'', was published by [[Constable & Robinson|Constable]].<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6NBbDwAAQBAJ|isbn=9781472130143|title=Bernard Who?: 75 Years of Doing Just About Everything|date=11 October 2018|publisher=Little, Brown Book|access-date=15 June 2022|archive-date=28 July 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220728220359/https://www.google.co.uk/books/edition/Bernard_Who/6NBbDwAAQBAJ?printsec=frontcover|url-status=live}}</ref> A successful social media campaign in 2022 led to his autobiography being recorded as an [[audiobook]], with Cribbins as the narrator,<ref>{{cite web | url=https://thedoctorwhocompanion.com/2022/02/27/bernard-who-the-curious-tale-of-bernard-cribbins-autobiography-audiobook/ | title=Bernard Who?: The Curious Tale of Bernard Cribbins' Autobiography Audiobook | date=27 February 2022 | access-date=17 May 2022 | archive-date=1 March 2022 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220301104723/https://thedoctorwhocompanion.com/2022/02/27/bernard-who-the-curious-tale-of-bernard-cribbins-autobiography-audiobook/ | url-status=live }}</ref> but recording was incomplete at the time of his death, and the book was released with a narration by Gordon Griffin.
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