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

Early in his career, he released a number of comedy records, including the famous "Right Said Fred" (in which a group of workmen struggle to move a piano) and "Hole in the Ground". He has appeared in many British films, including three Carry On films, one of the Doctor Who films, 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 appeared in 111 episodes of Jackanory. 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).

In 2003 he played dirty old man Wally Bannister in the long running soap, Coronation Street.

Other TV appearances

High and Dry
Langley Bottom
The Shillingbury Miracle
The Shillingbury Tinker
When We Are Married
Space: 1999 episode Brian the Brain (1976)

Films

Two-Way Stretch
(1960)
The Wrong Arm of the Law
(1962)
Carry On Spying
(1962)
Crooks in Cloisters (1963)
Carry On Jack
(1964)
The Railway Children
(1970)
Frenzy
(1972)
The Water Babies (1978)
Dangerous Davies - The Last Detective (1981)
Carry On Columbus (1992)

UK chart singles

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

Album

A Combination Of Cribbins (1962)

There's also an excellent 'Best Of' CD that EMI (UK) put out in 2005

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