Biography
Lawrence Douglas "Larry" Lamb (born 10 October 1947) is an English actor and radio talk-show presenter. He played Archie Mitchell in the BBC televisionsoap EastEnders, Michael Shipman in the BBC television show Gavin & Staceyand Mischievous Marty in the cult sitcom Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf?
Known For
Complete Filmography

Gavin & Stacey: A Fond Farewell
2025
as Self
An uplifting and touching documentary special which tells the story of one of Britain's best loved sitcoms as it comes to an end after 17 years. Featu...
Gavin & Stacey: The Making of the Finale
2024
as Self
Seventeen years after Gavin & Stacey begun, the series comes to an end with a 90-minute finale. Before the final episode, the last we saw of Nessa an...

Hounded
2022
as Gregory
A stately home robbery takes an evil turn one night when a gang of young thieves are caught by the owners of the house and then hunted across the esta...

Me, Myself & Di
2021
as Clifford
After winning the 'trip of a lifetime' to a caravan park in Rhyl, North Wales, unlucky in love Northener, Janet, is ready for a holiday romance. Unfor...
We Love Gavin and Stacey
2020
A celebration of Ruth Jones and James Corden's comedy, with stars including Alison Steadman, Larry Lamb and Melanie Walters revealing backstage gossip...

National Theatre Archive: Death of England
2020
as (Additional Voice)
After the death of his dad, Michael is powerless and angry. In a state of heartbreak, he confronts the difficult truths about his father’s legacy and ...

Gavin & Stacey: A Special Christmas
2019
as Mick Shipman
The Shipmans and the Wests get together once again for Christmas. Bryn is cooking dinner, Dawn is in shock, and there are revelations in the pub on Ch...

Rise of the Footsoldier 4: Marbella
2019
as Mr. Harris (archive footage) (uncredited)
Fresh out of prison, Pat Tate steps right back into his Essex nightclub. But still disgruntled, he soon sets out to Marbelle to revenge those that put...

Brighton
2019
as Derek
A typical day in Brighton; two working-class couples are on a day trip to the beach. But Brighton is changing and the friends can’t keep up. A result ...

Rise of the Footsoldier 3: The Pat Tate Story
2017
as Mr. Harris
Notorious gangster, Pat Tate, rises through the ranks of Essex's criminal underworld. A prequel to the 'Rise of the Footsoldier' franchise.

The Hatton Garden Job
2017
as Brian Reader
In April 2015, the Hatton Garden Safe Deposit Company, an underground safe deposit facility in London's Hatton Garden area, was burgled by 4 elderly m...

Two Minutes
2011
as William
In this terribly poignant tale of memory, loss and love, Juliette, a young woman paying a visit to her Alzheimer's suffering father, unexpectedly trig...

Blood: The Last Vampire
2009
as General McKee
On the surface, Saya is a stunning 16-year-old, but that youthful exterior hides the tormented soul of a 400-year-old "halfling". Born to a human fath...

Deadlines
2005
as Paul Baker
Alex Randal (Stephen Moyer), a young reporter on the make, decides, without knowing anything about the situation, to go to Beirut on October 23, 1983,...

One of the Hollywood Ten
2002
as Will Geer
Herbert Biberman struggles as a Hollywood writer and director blacklisted as one of The Hollywood Ten in the 1950s.

Essex Boys
2000
as Peter Chase
Billy has just scored an entry-level position with the local crime cartel. His first job is to mind Jason, a newly released thug with a vicious temper...

Place Vendôme
1998
as Christopher Makos
The story of a woman that remained distracted for a long time from her life, from the passions that made her feel alive. The importance of true love i...

The Missing Postman
1997
as Trevor Ramsay
When Dorset postman Clive Peacock is forced into early retirement, the years ahead look bleak. But on his last day in the job, in a moment of unexpect...

Carrying Dad
1995
as Frank
Frank and his brother Len meet on the day of their father's funeral. Together, with the help of Len's son Sean and Jean, a mysterious woman connected ...

Doggin' Around
1994
as Ken
The past catches up with an ageing American jazz pianist when he returns to the clubs of Lancashire and Yorkshire that he last visited 10 years previo...

White Goods
1994
as Jonnie Dow
Ian Deegan and Charlie Collins are best friends who team up to appear on TV in a popular snooker based game show. But, when they hit their jackpot, th...

Fool's Gold: The Story Of The Brink's Mat Robbery
1992
as Kenneth Noye
A dramatized speculation of what happened in November 1983 when Micky McAvoy and some of his mates planned a heist and were surprised when they discov...

Broke
1991
as Ron Bannister
Francis and his wife, Elaine, are proprietors of a struggling window-covering business, agree to install curtains in an exclusive club patronized by ...

A Little Piece of Sunshine
1990
as Desmond Hannah
Sunshine, an idyllic and almost forgotten island under British rule, is shortly to become independent. But a few days before this event is to take pla...

Buster
1988
as Bruce Reynolds
Buster is a small time crook who pulls a big time job. When he finds that the police will not let the case drop, he goes into hiding and can't contact...

Hearts of Fire
1987
as Jack Rosner
A reclusive musician, once a huge rock star, takes a young female protegee. While on a tour she meets a younger, more popular rocker and switches her ...

The Devil's Disciple
1987
as The Sergeant
Shaw turned to the classic Victorian melodrama to focus on the insincerity of much that his audience held dear, especially family and marriage. In 177...

Ubac
1987
as Larry
In 1930, in the majesty of the Andean mountains, the long hunt of a bounty hunter gradually turns into a strange initiation quest.

Transmutations
1985
as Roy Bain
When high class hooker Nicole is kidnapped from her brothel, Rich businessman Hugo Motherskille hires her ex love Roy Bain to find her. Investigating ...

Shadey
1985
as Dick Darnley
A young man discovers that not only does he have the ability to read minds, but that if he holds a camera next to his head he can transmit the thought...

Mon Ami Washington
1984
as Ben Carlson

The Making of 'Superman II'
1983
as Self / 2nd Miner (uncredited)
Documentary about the making of the sequel to Superman.

Superman III
1983
as 2nd Miner
Aiming to defeat the Man of Steel, wealthy executive Ross Webster hires bumbling but brilliant Gus Gorman to develop synthetic kryptonite, which yield...
A Gift of Tongues
1982
as Albert
A man and a woman (both married to other people) are found dead in a show home in what appears to have been double suicide. Their respective children ...

Dead Man's Kit
1980
as CPO Chalkey White
After shore-leave in Lisbon for the crew of HMS Diana, Master-at-Arms 'Toby' Toberman makes an official complaint to the ship's Captain about the beha...
Fox
1980
as Joey Fox
The thirteen-part series recounted the lives of the titular Fox family, who lived in Clapham in South London and had gangland connections.

Superman
1978
as 1st Reporter
Mild-mannered Clark Kent works as a reporter at the Daily Planet alongside his crush, Lois Lane. Clark must summon his superhero alter-ego when the ne...

Horse Latitudes
1975
Based on the true story of Philip Stockton, a 40 year old Englishman, who would have done almost anything to be the first man to sail around the world...

3 of a Kind
N/A
as Lord Ralph Barrington-Smythe
When a professional gambler, known as Deadpan Smythe is losing his poker face to old age, he has no choice but to hire his half-witted grandsons, Hend...