Peadar Lamb
Quick Facts
Biography
Peadar Lamb (1930 – 1 September 2017) was an Irish stage, television, and voice actor. He is known for starring in many Irish language productions, for playing king Fin Varra in the television series Mystic Knights of Tir Na Nog and for lending his voice to Old Piggley Winks on the children's television series Jakers! The Adventures of Piggley Winks.
Early life
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.
Career
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.
Personal life
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.
Filmography
Film
Year | Title | Role | Notes |
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2007 | Cré na Cille | An Máistir Mór | |
2006 | Secret of the Cave | Corky | |
2004 | Man About Dog | Fitzgerald the Farmer | |
2003 | Bloom | Editor | |
1998 | This Is My Father | Man in Pub | |
1994 | The Bishop's Story | Bishop | |
1992 | Far and Away | Farmer | |
1992 | The Railway Station Man | Mr. Hasson | |
1991 | December Bride | Registrar | |
1990 | The Field | Paddy Joe O’Reilly | |
1987 | Budawanny | Bishop | |
1984 | Reflections | Doctor | |
1971 | Von Richthofen and Brown | German Staff Major | |
1967 | Jules Verne's Rocket to the Moon | Soldier | |
1965 | The Secret of My Success | Superintendent Henderson | |
1959 | This Other Eden | Young Devereaux |
Television
Year | Title | Role | Notes |
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2015 | No Offence, episode #1.7' | Errol Lang | |
2003-2007 | Jakers! The Adventures of Piggley Winks | Piggley Winks/Grandpa (voice) | |
2004 | Killinaskully, episode The New Priest | Fr. Mullarkey | |
2002 | Bobbie's Girl | Priest | |
2001 | Custer's Last Stand-up, episode Play It Again, Gem | Gem Diamond | |
1998-1999 | Mystic Knights of Tir Na Nog | Fin Varra | |
1998 | Father Ted, episode Chripy Burpy Cheap Sheep | Fargo Boyle | |
1996 | Ros na Rún | P.J. Doherty | |
1996 | Screen Two (drama series), episode Loving | Eldon | |
1991 | The Treaty | Sir John Lavery | |
1990 | Shoot to Kill | Mr. Tighe | |
1989 | Brotherhood of the Rose | Doctor |