Bernard Wrigley

Acting · Sound

Born 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 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

• All Creatures Great & Small — Elijah Wentworth
• Home from Home — Bill
• 2010Z Cars: A Lot of Fuss About Light — Sergeant Osgood
• Shameless — Russell
• The Royal — Albert
• 2002Harold Shipman: Doctor Death — Market Trader
• Phoenix Nights — Dodgy Eric
• 2001Strumpet — (Scenes Deleted)
• 2001The Parole Officer — Bike Group Leader
• 2000Victoria Wood with All the Trimmings — Various Characters
• Cold Feet — Cabbie
• dinnerladies — Man, Bob
• 1997My Son the Fanatic — Drunk Man
• 1997Soul Music — Asphalt (voice)
• Soul Music — Asphalt (voice)
• 1996Brassed Off — Chapman
• Coogan's Run — Tony the Receptionist
• Heartbeat — Brown, George Costello
• 1987Rita, Sue and Bob Too — Teacher
• 1986The Insurance Man — Workmen
• 1984A Private Function — Painter
• The Glamour Girls — Customer
• 1979Afternoon Off — Vic
• The Mersey Pirate
• 1978Me! I'm Afraid of Virginia Woolf — Mr Trickett
• Pickersgill People — Original Music Composer
• Strangers — DS Kevin Rignall
• Yanks Go Home — 'Al Jolson'
• 1975Sunset Across the Bay — Milkman
• Village Hall — Reg Goodall
• Last of the Summer Wine — Duane
• Second City Firsts — Tommy
• 1973Speech Day — Arts Master
• 1972A Day Out — Ernest Tetley
• 1972Said the Preacher — David
• 1970Roll On Four O'Clock — Music