Peadar Lamb

Lamb grew up in An Cheathrú Rua, Carraroe. His father, Charles Lamb, was a well-known painter. Peadar Lamb trained at the Abbey Theatre and first appeared on stage in 1954.

During his lifetime, Lamb played a diverse array of characters and appeared in a number of plays by famous playwrights including Brendan Behan, Dion Boucicault and Seán O'Casey:

• Estragon in Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot
• Dunlavin and Warder Regan in The Quare Fellow (Behan’s first play)
• Monsewer in The Hostage and An Giall
• Police informer Harvey Duff in The Shaughraun
• Myles na Coppaleen in The Colleen Bawn
• Brennan o’ the Moor in Red Roses For Me
• Mr. Gallogher in The Shadow of a Gunman

Other stage performances include Curly in John Murphy's, as well as The Country Boy and the blind man in W. B. Yeats' On Baile's Strand. He toured America and Canada in 1990 with John Millington Synge's The Playboy of the Western World. In June 2002, Peadar Lamb and his wife Geraldine Plunkett played leading roles in a production of Tony Guerin's play Hummin', performed by the Waterford-based Red Kettle Company.

Lamb appeared on many series broadcasts on RTÉ One, including television soap operas Fair City and Ros na Rún. He appeared in a 1998 episode in the sitcom Father Ted and played Mr. Hasson in the British drama film The Railway Station Man, opposite Donald Sutherland and Julie Christie. He also played fairy King Fin Varra in the television series Mystic Knights of Tir Na Nog, loosely based on Irish mythology and voiced Old Piggley Winks on the children's television series Jakers! The Adventures of Piggley Winks.

Lamb has been married to fellow actress Geraldine Plunkett since 1965.

Lamb died in his sleep at his home in Glenageary, Ireland on 1 September 2017 at the age of 87.

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