Bernard Wrigley is a singer, actor and comedian from Bolton, England. He is sometimes known by the nickname The Bolton Bullfrog. Arms of Bolton Metropolitan Borough Council, the motto is Latin for Overcome your hinderance Bolton is a town in Greater Manchester in England, traditionally within the county of Lancashire. ... Royal motto (French): Dieu et mon droit (Translated: God and my right) Englands location (dark green) within the United Kingdom (light green), with the Republic of Ireland (blue) to its west Languages English Capital London Largest city London Area – Total Ranked 1st UK 130,395 km² Population – 60,609...

Bernard's career as a singer and storyteller began in the late sixties, when a love of folk music led him to perform in folk clubs. Since then he has released over a dozen albums of traditional and original songs, stories and monologues. Folk Music, in the original sense of the term, is music by and of the common people. ... A monologue is a speech by one person directly addressing an audience. ...

As an actor Bernard has made many appearances on stage, most famously in Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot alongside Mike Harding at Bolton's Octagon Theatre. Samuel Beckett Samuel Barclay Beckett (April 13, 1906 – December 22, 1989) was an Irish playwright, novelist and poet. ... Mike Harding (born 1944) is a British singer and comedian. ... The Octagon Theatre is a producing theatre located in Bolton, England. ...

Bernard has made many appearances in British TV programmes such as Phoenix Nights (where he was Dodgy Eric, who sold club owner Brian Potter a phallic bouncy castle), Emmerdale (as eccentric rocket inventor Barry Clegg) and Coronation Street (as the Rev. Marvin Winstanley, the dodgy internet priest Roy and Hayley approached to arrange their wedding), as well as Last of the Summer Wine, Cold Feet, Coogan's Run and Victoria Wood's Dinnerladies. Peter Kays Phoenix Nights is a British sitcom about The Phoenix Club, a working mens club in the northern English town of Bolton. ... For Emmerdale, the 1994 debut album by The Cardigans, see Emmerdale (album). ... Coronation Street is Britains longest-running television soap opera, and the UKs consistently highest-rated show. ... Last of the Summer Wine, written by Roy Clarke, is a British sitcom, which has run longer than any other comedy series in the world, now in its twenty-seventh series. ... Cold Feet is a UK TV comedy made by Granada Television and broadcast in five series between 1997 and 2003. ... Coogans Run was a 1995 UK TV series featuring Steve Coogan as a series of odd characters living in the fictional town of Ottle. ... Victoria Wood OBE (born May 19, 1953) is a British comedian, actress, singer and writer. ... dinnerladies is a 1990s British television sitcom written by and also featuring Victoria Wood. ...

Discography

• The Phenomenal B. Wrigley (1971)
• Rough and Wrigley (1974)
• Songs, Stories, & Elephants (1976)
• Ten Ton Special (1976)
• The Bolton Bullfrog (1981)
• Rude Bits! (1985)
• The Instrumental Album (1988)
• Wanted: Live! (1991)
• Buggerlugs (1992)
• Albert, Arthur, & The Car Park (1997)
• Magnificent Monologues (2000)
• Fairly Truthful Tales (2002)
• Magnificent Monologues Volume 2 (2002)
• Monologology (2003)
• Amblethwaite 'Appenings (2004)

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External links

• Bernard Wrigley's official website