
Bernard Wrigley
Department: Acting
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.
Known For

Soul Music
1997

A Day Out
1972

The Insurance Man
1986

Afternoon Off
1979

Me! I'm Afraid of Virginia Woolf
1978

My Son the Fanatic
1997

Brassed Off
1996

The Parole Officer
2001

Victoria Wood with All the Trimmings
2000

Said the Preacher
1972

Harold Shipman: Doctor Death
2002

Rita, Sue and Bob Too
1987

A Private Function
1984

Sunset Across the Bay
1975

Speech Day
1973

Strumpet
2001

Cold Feet
1998

Phoenix Nights
2001

Heartbeat
1992

Last of the Summer Wine
1973

Coogan's Run
1995

dinnerladies
1998

dinnerladies
1998

Home and Away
1972

Soul Music
1997

The Royal
2003

Phoenix Nights
2001

Home from Home
2018

Heartbeat
1992

Shameless
2004

All Creatures Great & Small
2020

Strangers
1978