Bernard Wrigley
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.
Movie Appearances
Soul Music
as Asphalt (voice)
1997
A Day Out
as Ernest Tetley
1972
The Insurance Man
as Workmen
1986
Afternoon Off
as Vic
1979
Me! I'm Afraid of Virginia Woolf
as Mr Trickett
1978
My Son the Fanatic
as Drunk Man
1997
Brassed Off
as Chapman
1996
The Parole Officer
as Bike Group Leader
2001
Victoria Wood with All the Trimmings
as Various Characters
2000
Said the Preacher
as David
1972
Harold Shipman: Doctor Death
as Market Trader
2002
Rita, Sue and Bob Too
as Teacher
1987
A Private Function
as Painter
1984
Sunset Across the Bay
as Milkman
1975
Speech Day
as Arts Master
1973
Strumpet
as (Scenes Deleted)
2001
