Bernard Wrigley
Acting • Born 1948-02-25
Biography
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
32 credits
Soul Music
Movie • 1997
Asphalt (voice)
A Day Out
Movie • 1972
Ernest Tetley
The Insurance Man
Movie • 1986
Workmen
Afternoon Off
Movie • 1979
Vic
My Son the Fanatic
Movie • 1997
Drunk Man
Brassed Off
Movie • 1996
Chapman
Me! I'm Afraid of Virginia Woolf
Movie • 1978
Mr Trickett
The Parole Officer
Movie • 2001
Bike Group Leader
Victoria Wood with All the Trimmings
Movie • 2000
Various Characters
Said the Preacher
Movie • 1972
David
Rita, Sue and Bob Too
Movie • 1987
Teacher
A Private Function
Movie • 1984
Painter
Sunset Across the Bay
Movie • 1975
Milkman
Harold Shipman: Doctor Death
Movie • 2002
Market Trader
Speech Day
Movie • 1973
Arts Master
Strumpet
Movie • 2001
(Scenes Deleted)
Cold Feet
TV • 1998
Phoenix Nights
TV • 2001
Heartbeat
TV • 1992
Brown
Last of the Summer Wine
TV • 1973
Duane
Coogan's Run
TV • 1995
dinnerladies
TV • 1998
Man
dinnerladies
TV • 1998
Bob
Home and Away
TV • 1972
Soul Music
TV • 1997
Asphalt (voice)
The Royal
TV • 2003
Albert
Phoenix Nights
TV • 2001
Dodgy Eric
Home from Home
TV • 2018
Bill
Heartbeat
TV • 1992
George Costello
Shameless
TV • 2004
Russell
All Creatures Great & Small
TV • 2020
Elijah Wentworth
Strangers
TV • 1978
DS Kevin Rignall