Having recently turned 92, Bernard Cribbins' career spans 8 decades and 77 years. He has been the voice to generations of children growing up, brought life to many a cartoon and animated show, trod the boards on stage, has acted in film, TV, radio, been the voice of audiobooks (vinyl, CD and digital), and, of course, song.

Bernard has appeared in films from the early 1950s, mainly comedies. His credits include Two-Way Stretch (1960) and The Wrong Arm of the Law (1963) with Peter Sellers, Crooks in Cloisters (1964) and three Carry On films – Carry On Jack (1963), Carry On Spying (1964) and Carry On Columbus (1992). Other appearances include the second Doctor Who film Daleks' Invasion Earth 2150 A.D. (1966) as Special Police Constable Tom Campbell; She (1965); Casino Royale (1967) as a taxi driver; The Railway Children (1970) as Mr Albert Perks, the station porter and the Alfred Hitchcock thriller Frenzy (1972) as Felix Forsythe. Later films include Dangerous Davies – The Last Detective (1981), Blackball (2003) and Run for Your Wife (2012).

His voice will be known to millions as Bernard was the narrator of the British animated children's TV series The Wombles from 1973 to 1975 and also played the character of the Water Rat in a BBC radio adaptation of The Wind in the Willows. He was the celebrity storyteller in more episodes of Jackanory than any other personality, with a total of 114 appearances between 1966 and 1991. He also narrated the audiotape of the Antonia Barber book The Mousehole Cat. From 1974 to 1976, Cribbins narrated Simon in the Land of Chalk Drawings. In the 1960s, he provided the voice of the character Tufty in RoSPA road safety films. He also provided the voice of Buzby, a talking cartoon bird that was the mascot for the Post Office. He also appeared in advertisements for Hornby model trains. In 1978, he provided one of two voiceovers in the electricity safety public information film Play Safe. He has had three UK Top 40 hits, with two of them in the Top 10 (Hole in the Ground, and Right Said Fred), and recorded seven albums. 

On TV, Bernard Cribbins was the star of the ITV series Cribbins (1969–70), a sketch show that highlighted his many talents; comedic, song, writer, performer, etc. Other TV appearances include The Avengers (1968), Fawlty Towers (1975, as the spoon salesman Mr Hutchinson who is mistaken by Basil Fawlty for a hotel inspector), Worzel Gummidge (1980), Shillingbury Tales (1980) and its spin-off Cuffy (1983). Besides voicing The Wombles, Cribbins was a regular on BBC children's television in the 1970s as host of performance panel game Star Turn and Star Turn Challenge. He starred in the BBC's 1975 Christmas production Great Big Groovy Horse, a rock opera based on the story of the Trojan Horse shown on BBC2. He regularly appeared on BBC TV's The Good Old Days recreating songs made famous by the great stars of Music Hall. Among his later TV appearances are Dalziel and Pascoe (1999), Last of the Summer Wine (2003), Coronation Street (2003, as Wally Bannister) and Down to Earth (2005). Cribbins also starred as Jack in the series Old Jack's Boat, set in Staithes, and broadcast on the CBeebies channel.

Having played Tom Campbell, a companion to Dr Who in the feature film Daleks' Invasion Earth 2150 A.D. (1966), Cribbins returned to Doctor Who in 2006. In December 2007, Cribbins appeared as Mott in the Christmas television special, "Voyage of the Damned"; he then appeared in a recurring capacity as the same character for the 2008 series, as the grandfather of companion Donna Noble. He became a Tenth Doctor temporary companion himself in "The End of Time", the two-part 2009–10 Christmas and New Year special. Cribbins's role as Mott makes him "unique", as he is the only actor to have played two companions, and the only actor featured alongside the Doctor's enemies, the Daleks, in both the TV and cinema versions of Doctor Who.

With more film, TV, radio, and theatre appearances that are too many to mention here, it is my sincere hope, and goal for 2021, that Bernard Cribbins be not only nominated for a Knighthood for his services to the Arts and Media but that he is also recognised for the massive input that he has had on millions of people growing up. His passion and commitment to entertain people of all ages over a 77-year career is an amazing feat and should be duly, and rightly, recognised.