Bernard Cribbins: Classic or Dud?

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I love this song!

http://www.45-rpm.org.uk/dirb/GEP8859.jpg

― RoxyMuzak© (roxymuzak), Thursday, 26 January 2006 22:25 (twenty years ago)

How is he in the "Carry On" films?

― RoxyMuzak© (roxymuzak), Thursday, 26 January 2006 22:27 (twenty years ago)

Mostly pretty forgetable. Carry on Jack only has Williams, Hawtrey and Jim Dale and is generally quite shite. Carry On Spying is one of the best and is Babs' debut. Cribbins is quite irritating in both. He was in Carry On Columbus which I haven't seen but is probably an embarrasment.

Other films I've seen him in: The Railway Children (obv), The Mouse On the Moon, She, Casino Royale.

His singing career is better than his acting career. The two other songs I've heard are both as good as Hole In The Ground - Right Said Fred (of course) and Winklepicker Shoes Blues. Go to slsk right now!

On the basis of those songs and as the Wombles narrator - CLASSIC.

― everything, Friday, 27 January 2006 00:17 (twenty years ago)

He was in Black Ball too, awful!

― Paul Kelly (kelly), Friday, 27 January 2006 02:26 (twenty years ago)

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Brilliant.

― Tim Abbot, Friday, 27 January 2006 15:54 (twenty years ago)

Carry on Jack only has Williams, Hawtrey and Jim Dale and is generally quite shite.

On the contrary, it's friggin' great - especially Kenneth Williams. I like Cribbins in it and in "Spying".

― Dittoismus (Dada), Friday, 27 January 2006 15:57 (twenty years ago)

Carry on Columbus is a blast, then again I was born in 1987 and probably have a bias towards the "alternative comedy" side of it. And also Julian Clary's character is not very subtle, at all.

I wish they had done "Carry On Dallas" in 1985 like they nearly did.

― JTS (JTS), Friday, 27 January 2006 22:18 (twenty years ago)

everything, you had me at Casino Royale.

I'm so excited about the Winklepicker song I can hardly see straight.

― RoxyMuzak© (roxymuzak), Thursday, 2 February 2006 23:16 (twenty years ago)

he is also v. gd as a bumptious fusspot in an episode of Fawlty Towers

― Ward Fowler (Ward Fowler), Thursday, 2 February 2006 23:25 (twenty years ago)

Oh right, I've heard about that.

― RoxyMuzak© (roxymuzak), Thursday, 2 February 2006 23:37 (twenty years ago)

Didn't he play a character called Cuffy in some programme?

― DV (dirtyvicar), Thursday, 2 February 2006 23:39 (twenty years ago)

I remember Cuffy when i was a wee lad in the very early 80s.

― Last Of The Famous International Pfunkboys (Kerr), Thursday, 2 February 2006 23:55 (twenty years ago)

I think his fawlty towers episode is THE BEST fawlty towers episode, just cos of him. "I was wondering if it might be possible for me to reserve the set for the duration of this televisual feast" etc. Gold!

― JimD (JimD), Friday, 3 February 2006 02:55 (twenty years ago)

Winklepicker Shoes Blues:
http://s7.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=2H0WXKSL8ZYH73UG6C9O7RTJFW

― everything, Friday, 3 February 2006 04:39 (twenty years ago)

Having listened to "Right Said Fred" for the first time in ages, I have concluded that it is slightly inferior to "Hole In The Ground" which is awesome and only 110 seconds long too. I think it's his laid back delivery that really sells it.

― everything, Friday, 3 February 2006 06:17 (twenty years ago)

Did he not also do the narration on The Wombles in the 70's?

Here's the lowdown on his recording career:

http://www.45-rpm.org.uk/dirb/bernardc.htm

― JohnFoxxsJuno (JohnFoxxsJuno), Friday, 3 February 2006 10:54 (twenty years ago)

he is also v. gd as a bumptious fusspot in an episode of Fawlty Towers

(Gestruing to throat) "Bit of cheese..."

― Dadaismus (Dada), Friday, 3 February 2006 11:25 (twenty years ago)

That discography makes me ask the inevitable question:

TS: Bernard Cribbins "When I'm 64" vs Frankie Howerd "When I'm 64" ?

― everything, Friday, 3 February 2006 16:06 (twenty years ago)

Sometimes they play "Gossip Calypso" on the radio in the afternoon. It's pretty old-fashioned in its attitudes to women, but insanely catchy.

Ah, Cuffy.

― accentmonkey (accentmonkey), Friday, 3 February 2006 17:58 (twenty years ago)

attn: everything, you are now officially the coolest guy on ilx ever

i remember seein hole in the ground "acted out" by plasticene men on tv when i wz 5!! i wz perturbed by the concluding scene

BC is in the dr who movie where the dalek comes out of the thames -- he is annoyin

― mark s (mark s), Friday, 3 February 2006 21:01 (twenty years ago)

I recall that video but in my memory it's for Right Said Fred, and they are moving a piano.

", you are now officially the coolest guy on ilx ever "
Ahem, blush, blush, glad you noticed etc.

― everything, Friday, 3 February 2006 21:09 (twenty years ago)

one year passes...

Singing "Friendship" with Elaine Page: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=woKclBrAklo

― roxymuzak, Wednesday, 19 December 2007 21:28 (eighteen years ago)

classic classic classic
...although he can't tell his arse from a... oh, sorry.

― snoball, Wednesday, 19 December 2007 21:36 (eighteen years ago)

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