Bernard Cribbins

Personal Info

Know For

Acting

Gender

Male

Birthday

1928-12-29 (94 years old)

Deathday

2022-07-27

Place of Birth

Oldham, Lancashire, England, UK

Bernard Cribbins

Biography

​Bernard Cribbins 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 ...

Acting

1972

Frenzy

as Felix Forsythe

2017

The Lake District: A Wild Year

as Self - Narrator (voice)

1964

Carry On Spying

as Harold Crump

1964

Carry On Jack

as Midshipman Albert Poop-Decker

1967

Casino Royale

as Taxi Driver

1978

The Water Babies

as Mr. Masterman / Voice of Eel

1963

The Wrong Arm of the Law

as Nervous O'Toole

1970

The Railway Children

as Albert Perks

2003

Blackball

as Mutley

1957

1965

She

as Job

1960

Two-Way Stretch

as Lennie Price

1977

That's Carry On!

as Various Characters

1963

The Mouse on the Moon

as Vincent Mountjoy

1992

Carry On Columbus

as Mordecai Mendoza

1966

The Sandwich Man

as Photographer

1982

It's Your Move

as Neighbour

1979

The Plank

as House painter

1964

Crooks in Cloisters

as Squirts McGinty

1958

Davy

as Stage Hand (uncredited)

1965

Cup Fever

as Policeman

1965

You Must Be Joking

as Sergeant Clegg

1975

Great Big Groovy Horse

as The Storyteller

1976

Night Ferry

as Pyramid

1978

The Adventures of Picasso

as Gertrude Stein / Narrator (voice)

2012

Run For Your Wife

as Hospital Patient

1961

Nothing Barred

as Newspaperman

1958

Dunkirk

as Thirsty Sailor (uncredited)

1964

The Counterfeit Constable

as Bob, l'agent 202

1977

The Country Wife

as Pinchwife

1978

Play Safe

as Robin (voice)

1975

More Awkward Customers

as Awkward Customer: Mr. Clam

2012

A Fantastic Fear of Everything

as The Voice (voice)

2018

Patrick

as Albert

1964

A Home of Your Own

as The Stonemason

1987

1962

The Fast Lady

as Man on Stretcher (uncredited)

1960

Visa to Canton

as Pereira

1961

The Best of Enemies

as Col. Brownlow

1973

1987

When We Are Married

as Herbert Soppitt

1984

The Snowman

as Narrator (Alternate Version) (uncredited)

1998

What's a Carry On?

as Self - at Re-Union /'Harold Crump' (uncredited)

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