Bernard Cribbins


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Born
December 29, 1928

Biography

Bernard Cribbins is an English voiceover artist, character actor, and comedian. He is most recognizable to sci-fi aficionados for his appearances in the "Doctor Who" franchise. Born in 1928, Cribbins served as a young man in the Parachute Regiment, the British Army's airborne assault force, and worked an apprenticeship at the Oldham Repertory Theatre. In the mid-to-late 1950s, he acted i...

Biography

Bernard Cribbins is an English voiceover artist, character actor, and comedian. He is most recognizable to sci-fi aficionados for his appearances in the "Doctor Who" franchise. Born in 1928, Cribbins served as a young man in the Parachute Regiment, the British Army's airborne assault force, and worked an apprenticeship at the Oldham Repertory Theatre. In the mid-to-late 1950s, he acted in several West End plays, including "A Comedy of Errors." Segueing into film in the 1960s, he played Tom Campbell in "Daleks' Invasion Earth: 2150 A.D.," a film based on the British sci-fi TV show "Doctor Who." He is often remembered as the station porter in 1970 film drama "The Railway Children." From 1965 to 2001, "Jackanory" was a BBC children's show in which an actor would read excerpts from novels or folk tales. Cribbins appeared as a reader over 100 times -- more than any other guest. A recurring fixture in bit parts in film and TV over the years, he remained loyal to the "Doctor Who" series in various reinventions. In 2007, he guest-starred as glam rock promoter Arnold Korns in "Horror of Glam Rock," a "Doctor Who" radio play for BBC Radio. The following year, he joined the cast of the 2008 series update of "Doctor Who," this time portraying Wilfred Mott, a traveling companion of the Doctor.

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Two Way Stretch (1960) -- (Movie Clip) Not Enough Rocks To Go Around? Tough prison guard Crout (Wilfrid Hyde-White) has re-opened the quarry, cracking down on inmates Jelly (David Lodge), Lennie (Bernard Cribbins) and Dodger (Peter Sellers), which doesn't work out, in Two Way Stretch, 1960.
Two Way Stretch (1960)-- (Movie Clip) A Hush-Hush Government Establishment Introduction of cellmates Lennie (Bernard Cribbins), Jelly (David Lodge) and Dodger (Peter Sellers), who have H.M. Prison Huntleigh wired, George Woodbridge their tame warder, from the 1960 British prison comedy Two Way Stretch.
Two Way Stretch (1960) -- (Movie Clip) It Keeps Happening! Dishy Ethel (Liz Fraser) visits with Dodger (Peter Sellers) and Mrs. Price (Irene Handl) with son Lennie (Bernard Cribbins), a scam afoot all along, in director Robert Day's prison comedy Two Way Stretch, 1960.
Carry On Spying (1964) -- (Movie Clip) Miss Honeybutt's A Woman! Lowbrow innuendo as ever the order of the day, as Simkins (Kenneth Williams) briefs espionage recruits Crump, Honeybutt and, not Bond but Bind (Bernard Cribbins, Barbara Windsor, Charles Hawtrey), staffing up in this 1964 installment in the long-lived British serial, Carry On Spying.
Carry On Spying (1964) -- (Movie Clip) English Steak And Kidney Pudding The wacky agents having crossed to the continent, fellow Brit Carstairs (Jim Dale) in Vienna meets Simkins (Kenneth Williams), Honeybutt (Barbara Windsor), Crump (Bernard Cribbins) and Bind (Charles Hawtrey), in the 9th "Carry On" film, Carry On Spying, 1964.
Daleks' Invasion Earth: 2150 A.D. -- (Movie Clip) Motorized Dustbins Resistance leaders Dortmun (Godfrey Quigley) Wyler (Andrew Keir) and David (Ray Brooks) try to console Louise and Susan (Jill Curzon, Roberta Tovey), who worry about captured uncle/grandfather Dr. Who (Peter Cushing) and Tom (Bernard Cribbins), in Daleks' Invasion Earth:2150 A.D., 1967.
Daleks' Invasion Earth: 2150 A.D. -- (Movie Clip) Smash And Grab Opening scene, constable Tom (Bernard Cribbins) gets coshed, then stumbles into an alarm box that isn't, meeting Dr. Who (Peter Cushing, his second film in the role), niece Louise (Jill Curzon) and granddaughter Susan (Roberta Tovey), in Daleks' Invasion Earth:2150 A.D., 1967.
She (1965) -- (Movie Clip) Palestine 1918 End of the first World War finds English Major Holly (Peter Cushing), his soldier and man-servant Job (Bernard Cribbins) and fellow officer Leo (John Richardson) at loose ends in Palestine, opening Hammer Films' She, 1965, starring Ursula Andress.
She (1965) -- (Movie Clip) Ayesha British Leo (John Richardson) is lured on by the vision of "Ayesha," (Ursula Andress), friends Holly (Peter Cushing) and Job (Bernard Cribbins) also hoping for ancient treasures, following their service in the first World War, on location in Israel, in Hammer Films' She, 1965.
She (1965) -- (Movie Clip) A Man Who Fears Your Wrath High priest Billali (Christopher Lee) has rescued injured Leo (John Richardson) and friends (Peter Cushing, Bernard Cribbins) from an exotic mob, leading them through impressive Hammer Films' sets to his queen Ayesha (Ursula Andress) in She, 1965.

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