Bernard Cribbins

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Bernard Cribbins (born December 29, 1928 in Oldham, Lancashire) is an English character actor and musical comedian.<p>Early in his career, he released a number of comedy records, including "Right Said Fred" (in which a group of workmen struggle to move a large unspecified object, possibly a piano) and "Hole in the Ground" (in which an embittered workman murders a bowler-hatted harasser). He has appeared in many British films, including three Carry On films, the second Doctor Who film Daleks - Invasion Earth 2150 AD, 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 narrated in many 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). He also provided the voice of Buzby, a...