Actor and singer Bernard Cribbins, whose career in TV and film spanned seven decades, dies aged 93.
"A gifted comic actor with an incredible seam of pathos and real heart. From Sellers to Star Turn, Wombles to Wilf," he continued. "I once gushed to him about his lovely performance in Hammer's 'She'. That afternoon he was off to play five aside - aged almost 90."Bernard Cribbins played Catherine Tate's grandfather in Doctor Who
By the time Bernard Cribbins was 14, he was working full-time at Oldham Rep and 50 years later, he could look back on a career in which he was almost never out of work. As an actor, comedian, singer and raconteur, he tried his hand at everything, from Shakespeare to pantomime, Jackanory to Top of the Pops.
Cribbins' voice was a fixture in UK living rooms, thanks to shows like Jackanory, which he frequently read stories on from 1966 to 1991.interview with the Guardian"Well, I think I'm a good actor, without being boastful," he said. "I have an array of voices. And intensity is a word you might use. Engage with that little figure on the other side of the lens."
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