IT'S A VERY HAPPY BIRTHDAY to BERNARD CRIBBINS TODAY! Born in 1928, Cribbins started his acting career at the tender age of 14! An actor since the age of 14 and was a major star
on the London stage by his mid-20s. It would be another ten years before
he became a national star with success in film comedies, with likes of Peter Sellers and a
string of hit records, the most popular probably being, 'A Hole In The Ground' and 'Right Said Fred'. He appeared in several of the "Carry On" series,
and also achieved a great degree of success doing voice-overs for
cartoons and TV commercials. One of his biggest successes being the 1970's children's animated puppet series, 'The Wombles'.
CRIBBINS was interviewed for the role of DOCTOR WHO in 1974, as the BBC prepared for Jon Pertwee, leaving the role. '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.'
BERNARD CRIBBINS also appeared in many tv drama programes as a guest star throughout the 1960's and 70's including the popular 'The Avengers' in TWO episodes. 'The Girl From Auntie' and the weird, 'Look, Stop Me If You've Heard This One, But There Are These Two Fella's'! Of all his movie roles, Cribbins has a fondness for 'The Railway Children' directed by Lionel Jeffries in 1970, where he played Albert Perks. Cribbins has a longstanding association with the science-fiction series Doctor Who (1963). Not only did he play a companion in the second Peter Cushing film, 'Daleks' Invasion Earth 2150 A.D.' (1966), which was 40 years before his regular role as a companion, Wilfred Mott, in the Russell T. Davies version of Doctor Who (2005).
CRIBBINS also appeared with Peter Cushing in the Hammer films, 'SHE' in (1965). Peter also appeared as a guest on his BBC light Entertainment show, 'CRIBBINS' in the 60's!
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