Peadar Lamb: Difference between revisions

Lamb gave performance as Estragon in [[Samuel Beckett]]’s ''[[Waiting for Godot]]'', and appeared in a number of plays of [[Brendan Behan]], [[Dion Boucicault]] and [[Seán O'Casey]] playing Dunlavin and Warder Regan in ''[[The Quare Fellow]]'', Behan’s first play, Monsewer in ''[[The Hostage (play)|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 (play)|Red Roses For Me]]'' and Mr Gallogher in ''[[The Shadow of a Gunman]]''. Other stage performances include Curly in ''[[John Murphy (playwright)|John Murphy's]]'', ''[[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]]''.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.firstcallmanagement.ie/peadar-lamb/|title=Peadar Lamb|website=Firstcallmanagement.ie|accessdate=3 September 2017}}</ref> 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.<ref name=rte/>▼

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

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[[Category:Irish male actors]]▼