Doctor Who and Wombles star Bernard Cribbins sadly passed away at the age of 93. Bernard was an English actor and singer for seven decades.
Who Is Bernard Cribbins?
Bernard Cribbins was an English actor and singer whose career spanned seven decades in Hollywood. he was born on 29 December 1928 in the Derker area of Oldham, Lancashire, the son of cotton weaver Ethel. 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 And Another Thing and recorded a single of a song from the show titled “Folksong”.
Bernard Cribbins films
Cribbins appeared in films from the early 1950s, mainly comedies. His credits include Two-Way Stretch (1960) and The Wrong Arm of the Law (1963) with Peter Sellers, Crooks in Cloisters (1964), and three Carry On films – Carry On Jack (1963), Carry On Spying (1964), and Carry On Columbus (1992). Other appearances include the second Doctor Who film Daleks’ Invasion Earth 2150 A.D. (1966) as Special Police Constable Tom Campbell; She (1965); Casino Royale (1967) as Carlton Towers, a British Foreign Office official, The Railway Children (1970) as Mr. Albert Perks, the station porter and the Alfred Hitchcock thriller Frenzy (1972) as Felix Forsythe. Later films include Dangerous Davies – The Last Detective (1981), Blackball (2003), and Run for Your Wife (2012).
Doctor Who showrunner Russel T Davies tribute to Bernard Cribbins in his recent Instagram post, adding “I’m so lucky to have known him. Thanks for everything, my old soldier. A legend has left the world.”
