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Lawrence Douglas "Larry" Lamb (born 10 October 1947(1947-10-10)) is an English actor who has worked frequently in television. He is best known for playing one of the greatest villains of British soap Archie Mitchell in the BBC television soap EastEnders, Michael Shipman in the BBC television show Gavin & Stacey and Mischievous Marty in the cult sitcom Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf? Lamb was born Lawrence Douglas Lamb on 10 October 1947 in Edmonton, London to Jessie White and Ronald Douglas Lamb. Larry is the eldest of four including his brother, Wesley and a sister. Lamb had a turbulent... MORE

Lawrence Douglas "Larry" Lamb (born 10 October 1947(1947-10-10)) is an English actor who has worked frequently in television. He is best known for playing one of the greatest villains of British soap Archie Mitchell in the BBC television soap EastEnders, Michael Shipman in the BBC television show Gavin & Stacey and Mischievous Marty in the cult sitcom Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf? Lamb was born Lawrence Douglas Lamb on 10 October 1947 in Edmonton, London to Jessie White and Ronald Douglas Lamb. Larry is the eldest of four including his brother, Wesley and a sister. Lamb had a turbulent childhood; he was verbally abused by his father and often had to keep his parents from fighting. Lamb attended Edmonton County Grammar School, and later Lamb joined the oil industry, which resulted in him working in Libya and Canada, where he attended St. Francis Xavier University in Antigonish, Nova Scotia. This developed his amateur interest in acting into a professional level, performing at Canada's Stratford Festival in 1975–76. After returning to the UK from Canada Lamb became a regular cast member, along with Kate O'Mara, in the BBC's North Sea ferry-based soap Triangle (1981–83), in which LESS