Bernard Wrigley

Bernard Wrigley (born 25 February 1948 in Bolton, Lancashire, England)[1] is an English singer, actor and comedian.

He began acting around the same time and has made many appearances on stage, most famously in Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot alongside Mike Harding at Bolton's Octagon Theatre,[1] and Jim Cartwright's Road at the Royal Exchange Theatre, Manchester.

Wrigley has made many appearances in British TV programmes in a career spanning over five decades, including Phoenix Nights[2] (where he was Dodgy Eric, who sold club owner Brian Potter a Das Boot fruit machine, a bucking bronco and an obscene bouncy castle), Emmerdale[2] (as eccentric rocket inventor Barry Clegg) and Coronation Street[2] (most recently as the Rev.

Marvin Winstanley, the shady 'internet priest' whom Roy and Hayley approached to arrange their wedding - Wrigley's sixth character in the soap).

BBC Radio Lancashire has broadcast many of his pre-recorded series, such as Wrigley's Ramblings and Home Brewed,[2] and his readings of many stories written by Tommy Thompson.