Bernard Sparkes
- Actor
- Director
- Writer
TV Producer, Game Creator, Reality TV & Documentary Contributor, Executive Producer, TV/Film Actor, Author & Voiceover Artist.
Bernard was born in London in the late 1960's but his formative years were spent growing up in Yorkshire. During his life he has had a varied career from stacking shelves at a local supermarket at the age of 13, the youngest member of the management team for Comet (the electrical retail group) ever at 17, the Police force in both West Yorkshire & Lancashire, a pioneer in the early stages of the internet/modern telecoms/web marketing, development of a children's animation and book, board game creator and App developer. Throughout his life Bernard has also had a range of other jobs and launched a number of businesses some with great success others not so.
At 28 Bernard married into a family with 10 children two of whom are autistic and with his then wife had a further 4 children, unfortunately after 19 years they went their separate ways.
After 20 years of living in Northern Ireland including 8 in France & Spain, Bernard is now resident in the North East of England where he has embarked on the next stage of his life.
Giving back has been a large part of Bernard's life supporting a number of causes over the years including Autism charities and Air Ambulances....
Bernard was born in London in the late 1960's but his formative years were spent growing up in Yorkshire. During his life he has had a varied career from stacking shelves at a local supermarket at the age of 13, the youngest member of the management team for Comet (the electrical retail group) ever at 17, the Police force in both West Yorkshire & Lancashire, a pioneer in the early stages of the internet/modern telecoms/web marketing, development of a children's animation and book, board game creator and App developer. Throughout his life Bernard has also had a range of other jobs and launched a number of businesses some with great success others not so.
At 28 Bernard married into a family with 10 children two of whom are autistic and with his then wife had a further 4 children, unfortunately after 19 years they went their separate ways.
After 20 years of living in Northern Ireland including 8 in France & Spain, Bernard is now resident in the North East of England where he has embarked on the next stage of his life.
Giving back has been a large part of Bernard's life supporting a number of causes over the years including Autism charities and Air Ambulances....