Bernard Cribbins
Birthday: 29 December 1928, Oldham, Lancashire, England, UK
Height: 173 cm
An actor since the age of 14, Bernard Cribbins had become a major star on the London stage by his mid-20s, but it was another ten years before he became a national star by his success in film comedies ...Show More
[on being awarded the OBE]: Gobsmacked! You can't go through life expecting to get prizes. You just Show more
[on being awarded the OBE]: Gobsmacked! You can't go through life expecting to get prizes. You just get on with things, which is how it should be. Hide
I didn't actually audition. But when Jon Pertwee was leaving, the producer Barry Letts - who died qu Show more
I didn't actually audition. But when Jon Pertwee was leaving, the producer Barry Letts - who died quite recently - interviewed a lot of actors, one of whom was me. I went along and sat down and he said 'now then what can you do?' I said 'I'm a very good swimmer, I was a paratrooper, I could fight' - and he said 'Oh no, no fighting no, the Doctor is never seen fighting at all!' So Tom Baker became the next Doctor, and one of the first things I remember him doing was knocking somebody out. (On Doctor Who (1963)) Hide
Bernard Cribbins's FILMOGRAPHY
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Bernard Cribbins'S roles
Harold Crump
Felix Forsythe
Wilfred Mott
Midshipman Albert Poop-Decker
