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Here is my Tribute to great Actor, Comedian and Singer Bernard Cribbins
aka Wilfred Mott from Doctor Who and featured in such great tv shows and films such as The Water Babies, Dalek Invasion Earth 2150, The Railway Children, Fawlty Towers, plus lending his voice to shows like The Wombles and Old Jacks Boat.

RIP BERNARD. Here is your tribute.

Bernard Joseph Cribbins OBE (29 December 1928 – 27 July 2022) was an English actor and singer whose career spanned seven decades.

During the 1960s, Cribbins became known in the UK for his successful novelty records including “The Hole in the Ground” and “Right Said Fred” and appearances in comedy films including Two-Way Stretch (1960) and the Carry On series. His other screen roles include Albert Perks in The Railway Children (1970), barman Felix Forsythe in Alfred Hitchcock’s Frenzy (1972) and 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 (1973–1975) and played the title role in the CBeebies series Old Jack’s Boat (2013–2015).

In the 1966 film Daleks’ Invasion Earth 2150 A.D., Cribbins portrayed Tom Campbell, a companion to Dr. Who. Forty-one years later, he began appearing in the revival series of Doctor Who as Wilfred Mott, the grandfather of regular companion Donna Noble and a temporary companion to the Tenth Doctor.

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. In 1960, he starred alongside Anna Quayle and Lionel Blair in the revue And Another Thing, written by Ted Dicks (music) and Myles Rudge.

The show brought Cribbins to the attention of Parlophone head George Martin, who signed Cribbins to the label to record a single of a satirical song from the show titled “Folk Song” Subsequently, Rudge and Dicks were subsequently asked to provide new material for Cribbins; their compositions “The Hole in the Ground”, about an annoyed workman who eventually buries a harasser, and “Right Said Fred”, about three workmen who struggle to move an unspecified heavy and awkward object into or out of a building (later also the name of a pop novelty band who named themselves after the song[), were top ten hits on the UK Singles Chart in 1962.

The third and final Cribbins single of the year “Gossip Calypso”, written by Trevor Peacock, was another top 30 hit

When he joined the Oldham Rep, Cribbins met Gillian McBarnet, an aspiring actress. They were married from 1955 until her death on 11 October 2021.

They lived in Weybridge, Surrey,[ and had no children, with Cribbins revealing in 2018 that they “lost one quite early on and that was the only time [they] got near it”.

He was diagnosed with prostate cancer in 2009, but said in 2018 that he was “in good health” at the age of 90 with the exception of a “nagging back condition”.

In 2018, his autobiography, Bernard Who? 75 Years Of Doing Just About Anything, was published by Constable.

In February 2022, a successful social media campaign secured the rights for Cribbins’ autobiography to be recorded as an audiobook, in his own voice.

On 28 July 2022, Cribbins died at the age of 93

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