# Peadar Lamb

Peadar Lamb (1930 – 1 September 2017) was an Irish actor. He was known for his roles in numerous Irish-language stage productions, including playing King Fin Varra in the television series Mystic Knights of Tir Na Nog, and voicing Grandpa 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
### Theatre

Lamb had a theatrical career lasting over 60 years. Over the course of this time, he played diverse 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 a role as Curly in John Murphy's The Country Boy and as the blind man in W. B. Yeats' On Baile's Strand. Lamb 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.

### Television

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 of 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.

### Teaching

Lamb qualified as a primary school teacher before becoming an actor full time and later taught young actors at his alma mater, Abbey School of Acting.

## Personal life

Lamb was married to actress Geraldine Plunkett from 1965. They had seven children.
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 |
| 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 |
| 2015 | No Offence, episode #1.7' | Errol Lang | final role |
| 2003–2007 | Jakers! The Adventures of Piggley Winks | Grandpa Piggley Winks (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 | |
| 2000 | My Hero | Seamus Sunday | Series 1 Episode 5 "Old Man Riverdance" |
| 1998–1999 | Mystic Knights of Tir Na Nog | Fin Varra | |
| 1998 | Father Ted | Fargo Boyle | Series 3 Episode 2 Chirpy Burpy Cheap Sheep |
| 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 | |