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Bernard Cribbins as Captain Michael in Space: 1999, episode: Brian the Brain (1976).

Sir Bernard Cribbins (born December 29, 1928 in Oldham, Lancashire) is an English character actor and musical comedian.

Early in his career, he released a number of beautifuly crafted musical masterpieces, including "Right Said Fred" (in which a group of workmen struggle to move a large unspecified object, possibly a piano) and "Hole in the Ground" (in which an embittered workman murders a bowler-hatted harasser). He has appeared in many British films, including three Carry On films, the second Doctor Who film Daleks - Invasion Earth 2150 AD, and as the station porter, Perks, in The Railway Children. He was the narrator of the British animated children's TV series The Wombles. He also narrated a celebrated BBC radio adaptation of The Wind in the Willows. He holds the record for reading the most episodes of Jackanory, with a total of 111 appearances. Other television appearances included Fawlty Towers, as the spoon salesman Mr Hutchinson (mistaken by Basil Fawlty for an inspector) in the episode "The Hotel Inspectors" (1975). He also provided the voice of Buzby, a talking cartoon bird that served as the mascot for the then General Post Office (United Kingdom), which later became British Telecommunications.

In 2003 he played Wally Bannister in the long running soap Coronation Street. In 2007 he will appear as Wilf Mott in the Doctor Who Christmas special, "Voyage Of The Damned", a character who will reappear in the 2008 season.^[1]

• The Avengers
  • "The Girl from AUNTIE" (1966)
  • "Look - (Stop Me If You've Heard This One) But There Were These Two Fellers..." (1968)
• Wombles (Narrator) (1973)
• Fawlty Towers
  • "The Hotel Inspectors" (1975)
• Simon in the Land of Chalk Drawings (Narrator) (1976)
• Space: 1999
  • "Brian the Brain" (1976)
• Shillingbury Tales (1981)
• Langley Bottom (1986)
• When We Are Married (1987)
• High and Dry (1987)
• Dalziel and Pascoe
  • "Time to Go" (1999)
• The Canterbury Tales
  • "The Journey Back" (2000)
• Last of the Summer Wine
  • "In Which Gavin Hinchcliffe Loses the Gulf Stream" (2003)
• Coronation Street (2003)
• Down to Earth
  • "Hot Air" (2005)
  • "Hot Air" (2005)
• Doctor Who
  • "Voyage of the Damned" (2007)

• Two-Way Stretch (1960)
• The Wrong Arm of the Law (1962)
• The Mouse on the Moon (1962)
• Carry On Spying (1962)
• Crooks in Cloisters (1963)
• Carry On Jack (1964)
• A Home of Your Own (1964)
• She (1965)
• Daleks - Invasion Earth 2150 AD (1966)
• Casino Royale (1967)
• Don't Raise the Bridge, Lower the River (1968)
• The Railway Children (1970)
• Frenzy (1972)
• The Water Babies (1978)
• Dangerous Davies - The Last Detective (1981)
• Carry On Columbus (1992)
• Blackball (2003)

• "Hole In The Ground" (1962)
• "Right Said Fred" (1962) which inspired the name of the band "Right Said Fred".
• "Gossip Calypso" (1962)

• A Combination Of Cribbins (1962)
• The Very Best of Bernard Cribbins (2005)

• Bernard Cribbins at the Internet Movie Database
• http://www.stuart.cann.freeuk.com/bernard.htm (Note Bernard Cribbins' dotting of both 'i's in his surname)
• The Actors Compendium
• Carry On Line: Official Website of the Carry On films Detailed information on the Carry Ons