page_title: Bernard Cribbins
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caption_attribution_description: English: A BBC camera crew filming for the new CBeebies show "Old Jack's Boat", starring Doctor Who alumni Freema Agyeman (Martha Jones) and Bernard Cribbins (Wilfred Mott). Here Cribbins is presenting Agyeman with a rainbow hat flowerpot (shortly to be smashed). This was shot in Staithes, North Yorkshire.
context_page_description: Bernard Joseph Cribbins, OBE is an English actor and comedian whose career spans over seventy years.
  During the 1960s, Cribbins became known in Britain for his successful novelty records including "The Hole in the Ground" and "Right Said Fred" and made appearances in comedy films including Two-Way Stretch and the Carry On series. During the 1970s, he appeared as Albert Perks in The Railway Children, as the barman Felix Forsythe in Alfred Hitchcock's Frenzy and as the pretentious guest Mr. Hutchinson in "The Hotel Inspectors" episode of Fawlty Towers. He narrated the BBC children's television programme The Wombles and was a regular and prolific reader for the BBC's Jackanory from 1966 to 1991.
  Having appeared as Tom Campbell, a companion to Dr. Who in the feature film Daleks' Invasion Earth 2150 A.D., Cribbins appeared in Doctor Who on a recurring basis four decades later as Wilfred Mott, the grandfather of regular companion Donna Noble and a temporary companion to television's Tenth Doctor.
context_section_description: Bernard Joseph Cribbins, OBE (born 29 December 1928) is an English actor and comedian whose career spans over seventy years.
  During the 1960s, Cribbins became known in Britain for his successful novelty records including "The Hole in the Ground" and "Right Said Fred" and made appearances in comedy films including Two-Way Stretch (1960) and the Carry On series. During the 1970s, he appeared as Albert Perks in The Railway Children (1970), as the barman Felix Forsythe in Alfred Hitchcock's Frenzy (1972) and as the pretentious guest Mr. Hutchinson in "The Hotel Inspectors" episode of Fawlty Towers (1975). He narrated the BBC children's television programme The Wombles (1973–1975) and was a regular and prolific reader for the BBC's Jackanory from 1966 to 1991.
  Having appeared as Tom Campbell, a companion to Dr. Who in the feature film Daleks' Invasion Earth 2150 A.D. (1966), Cribbins appeared in Doctor Who on a recurring basis four decades later as Wilfred Mott, the grandfather of regular companion Donna Noble and a temporary companion to television's Tenth Doctor.
caption: Cribbins filming Old Jack's Boat in 2012
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