Bernard Cribbins, a stage and screen actor who played in the television show "Doctor Who" and also voiced the British children's television show "The Wombles," has passed away his talent agency has confirmed. He was 93.
Cribbins his acting career spans more than six decades, the majority of it in children's entertainment during the 1960s as well as the 1970s.
His character as Wilfred Mott in the long-running British show "Doctor Who" in the role of an ally of David Tennant's Time-traveling Doctor brought him back to the attention of the viewers that grew up watching the character.
His character as Wilfred Mott in the long-running British show "Doctor Who" in the role of an ally of David Tennant's Time-traveling Doctor brought him back to the attention of the viewers that grew up watching the character.
Doctor who" Showrunner Russell T. Davies paid tribute to Cribbins in a post posted on Instagram Thursday.
"I'm extremely fortunate to have had the privilege of knowing him. Thank you so much and my soldier of the past. Legendary has gone out of all of us," Davies wrote.
Before becoming acting, Cribbins worked as a soldier in the Army's Parachute Regiment. When he was a teen, he spent some time in Palestine and he was able to recall witnessing fireworks and gunfire.
He was awed to discover that Davies later integrated Cribbins memories into a scene from "Doctor Doctor Who."