Bernard Cribbins

[Mon0Zer0]

Right in the childhood with this one. Bernard Cribbins was in everything from Doctor Who to Frenzy to the Railway Children to Mouse on the moon to Fawlty Towers to the Carry On Films. Sorely missed.

Bernard Cribbins: Doctor Who and Wombles star dies aged 93

Actor and singer Bernard Cribbins, whose career in TV and film spanned seven decades, dies aged 93.

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[nixie]

RIP, definitely a reminder of childhood.

 

[farntfar]

Not to mention his brilliant comic songs, like Right said Fred, and Digging a Hole.
A very funny man.

I've just realised that both those two songs end with someone getting buried: Fred by half a ton of rubble, and the man in the bowler hat. And that's that.

 

[BT Jones]

Very sad news. He had such a lovely, warm presence; innocent, humble, salt-of-the-earth. An iconic voice from my childhood.

 

[Ian Fortytwo]

RIP Bernard, let's hope they dig a round hole, not square.

 

[Rodders]

Such a huge part of my childhood. RIP Bernard.

 

[Mon0Zer0]

 

[hitmouse]

RIP.

He also read The Hobbit on Jackanory.

Up there with Brian Cant, Johnny Morris, and Tony Hart.

 

[Ambrose]

Many memories. I hope that access to his work will remain possible. Tha grandkids like him as much as I did - do!.

 

[M. Robert Gibson]

I like this little fact...

Cribbins had first appeared alongside a time lord in 1966, with Peter Cushing playing the Doctor in Daleks Invasion: Earth 2150 AD. In 1974, he narrowly lost out on becoming the legendary character himself, when the part went to Tom Baker.

Becoming Catherine Tate's grandfather - after a four decade break - made him the only actor to travel in the Tardis as two separate characters.

 

[farntfar]

Except it can't be true.
Peter Capaldi travelled just up the hill as Caecillius at the end of the Pompeii episode before becoming the Doctor.

 

[M. Robert Gibson]

Except it can't be true.

Well, that's BBC reporting for you

 

[Ian Fortytwo]

Right said Fred let's have a cuppa tea.

 

[Danny McG]

He also played "Stan the news-vendor" in the 2007 Doctor Who Christmas special Voyage of the Damned, before getting the part of Donna Noble's grandad

 

[farntfar]

He also played "Stan the news-vendor" in the 2007 Doctor Who Christmas special Voyage of the Damned, before getting the part of Donna Noble's grandad

Weren't they the same character?
Didn't Wilfred/Grandad say "Oh no. Not you again;" or something similar the first time he met the Doctor in the Donna stories?

 

[Stephen Palmer]

RIP a great actor.

 

[Danny McG]

Weren't they the same character?
Didn't Wilfred/Grandad say "Oh no. Not you again;" or something similar the first time he met the Doctor in the Donna stories?

I always thought that Stan was meant as a one off but then the actor who was playing Donna Noble's dad took really ill, so they did a retro fit (like Star Wars did with Darth Vader actors) and introduced Wolf Mott as her grandad

 

[farntfar]

Sounds like you know more about it than I do, Danny.

 

[paranoid marvin]

One of the last of a legendary era of British actors. RIP Bernard.