Cast & creator
Bernard Wrigley
Best known for Heartbeat, Heartbeat, Shameless
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.
18
film credits
20
television credits
36
1970–2020 · acting roles
6.9
average across scored titles
Signature credits
Known for
Across film & television
Filmography (38)
Showing 38 of 38 credits
Heartbeat
Brown
1992Heartbeat
George Costello
1992
Shameless
Russell
2004
Last of the Summer Wine
Duane
1973
All Creatures Great & Small
Elijah Wentworth
2020
Strangers
DS Kevin Rignall
1978
Cold Feet
Cabbie
1998
dinnerladies
Man
1998dinnerladies
Bob
1998Second City Firsts
Tommy
1973
Phoenix Nights
Dodgy Eric
2001
Pickersgill People
Original Music Composer
1978
Yanks Go Home
'Al Jolson'
1976
Coogan's Run
Tony the Receptionist
1995
Soul Music
Asphalt (voice)
1997
Village Hall
Reg Goodall
1974
Brassed Off
Chapman
1996
Home from Home
Bill
2018
The Glamour Girls
Customer
1980
The Parole Officer
Bike Group Leader
2001
My Son the Fanatic
Drunk Man
1997
A Private Function
Painter
1984
Rita, Sue and Bob Too
Teacher
1987
Sunset Across the Bay
Milkman
1975
The Insurance Man
Workmen
1986
The Royal
Albert
2003
Victoria Wood with All the Trimmings
Various Characters
2000
Roll On Four O'Clock
Music
1970
Harold Shipman: Doctor Death
Market Trader
2002
Me! I'm Afraid of Virginia Woolf
Mr Trickett
1978
Afternoon Off
Vic
1979The Mersey Pirate
1979
Strumpet
(Scenes Deleted)
2001
Soul Music
Asphalt (voice)
1997
A Day Out
Ernest Tetley
1972
Z Cars: A Lot of Fuss About Light
Sergeant Osgood
2010Said the Preacher
David
1972
Speech Day
Arts Master
1973