Bernard Wrigley

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Bernard Wrigley

Acting 78 February 25, 1948

Bolton, Lancashire, England, UK

From starting in folk clubs as a child bride, and then writing & performing at the Octagon theatre in Bolton, the career has always combined singing and acting. From TV programmes…

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Shameless

Shameless

7.5 2004 TV Show
All Creatures Great & Small

All Creatures Great & Small

8.2 2020 TV Show
Heartbeat

Heartbeat

7.2 1992 TV Show
Last of the Summer Wine

Last of the Summer Wine

7.2 1973 TV Show
Brassed Off

Brassed Off

7.0 1996 Movie
The Parole Officer

The Parole Officer

5.8 2001 Movie
Cold Feet

Cold Feet

7.7 1998 TV Show
Rita, Sue and Bob Too

Rita, Sue and Bob Too

6.2 1987 Movie
Phoenix Nights

Phoenix Nights

8.0 2001 TV Show
dinnerladies

dinnerladies

7.5 1998 TV Show
A Private Function

A Private Function

6.4 1984 Movie
Strangers

Strangers

7.3 1978 TV Show

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From starting in folk clubs as a child bride, and then writing & performing at the Octagon theatre in Bolton, the career has always combined singing and acting. From TV programmes and films such as Coronation Street, Emmerdale, Phoenix Nights, Dinnerladies, Alan Bennett films, Brassed Off, My Son The Fanatic & Steve Coogan’s Coogan’s Run, to the many radio plays and programmes presented or guested upon, there has throughout been a steady stream of LPs and CDs - eighteen to date, the early ones all now remastered to CD.

Filmography

Movies and shows, newest first

  1. 2020
    All Creatures Great & Small

    TV show Elijah Wentworth

  2. 2018
    Home from Home

    TV show Bill

  3. 2010
    Z Cars: A Lot of Fuss About Light

    Movie Sergeant Osgood

  4. 2004
    Shameless

    TV show Russell

  5. 2003
    The Royal

    TV show Albert

  6. 2002
    Harold Shipman: Doctor Death

    Movie Market Trader

  7. 2001
    Strumpet

    Movie (Scenes Deleted)

  8. 2001
    The Parole Officer

    Movie Bike Group Leader

  9. 2001
    Phoenix Nights

    TV show Dodgy Eric

  10. 2000
    Victoria Wood with All the Trimmings

    Movie Various Characters

  11. 1998
    Cold Feet

    TV show Cabbie

  12. 1998
    dinnerladies

    TV show Man

  13. 1997
    My Son the Fanatic

    Movie Drunk Man

  14. 1997
    Soul Music

    TV show Asphalt (voice)

  15. 1997
    Soul Music

    Movie Asphalt (voice)

  16. 1996
    Brassed Off

    Movie Chapman

More credits
  1. 1995
    Coogan's Run

    TV show Tony the Receptionist

  2. 1992
    Heartbeat

    TV show Brown

  3. 1987
    Rita, Sue and Bob Too

    Movie Teacher

  4. 1986
    The Insurance Man

    Movie Workmen

  5. 1984
    A Private Function

    Movie Painter

  6. 1980
    The Glamour Girls

    TV show Customer

  7. 1979
    The Mersey Pirate

    TV show

  8. 1979
    Afternoon Off

    Movie Vic

  9. 1978
    Me! I'm Afraid of Virginia Woolf

    Movie Mr Trickett

  10. 1978
    Strangers

    TV show DS Kevin Rignall

  11. 1978
    Pickersgill People

    TV show Original Music Composer

  12. 1976
    Yanks Go Home

    TV show 'Al Jolson'

  13. 1975
    Sunset Across the Bay

    Movie Milkman

  14. 1973
    Second City Firsts

    TV show Tommy

  15. 1973
    Speech Day

    Movie Arts Master

  16. 1973
    Last of the Summer Wine

    TV show Duane

  17. 1972
    A Day Out

    Movie Ernest Tetley

  18. 1972
    Said the Preacher

    Movie David

  19. 1970
    Roll On Four O'Clock

    Movie Music