Peadar Lamb (24 December 1929 – 1 September 2017)https://www.irishtimes.com/life-and-style/people/former-abbey-actor-also-featured-in-many-tv-and-film-productions-1.3245638 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 teacherIrish News before becoming an actor full time and later taught young actors at his alma mater, Abbey School of Acting.Irish Times
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 Notes 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
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