Peter Martin is an English actor (born Gainsborough) who was known in the 1980s for his TV ads for Jewsons Hardware.
He played the fish shop man in First of the Summer Wine. He also played 'Charlie the moonlighting gravedigger' in the Beiderbecke Tapes.
He was in The Royle Family as Joe Carroll and played the part of Len Reynolds in ITV's Emmerdale from 2001 until the character's death on 17 May 2007.
He starred in the film Brassed Off and the television series All Creatures Great and Small and Chucklevision. He also was in an episode of Last of the Summer Wine.
He featured in
Coronation Street (1960) three times in different roles.
He regularly worked small parts on
Victoria Wood television programmes for over 20 years beginning in 1980 with her play
Nearly a Happy Ending (1980) and ending with an appearance in an episode of
Dinnerladies (1998) in 2000.
Walk Like a Panther(2018)as Harry
The Royle Family(1998)as Joe Carroll
Doctors(2000)as Bobby Bassett, Boris Scrimshaw, Len Collison
Walk Like a Panther(2011)as Pete
Skins(2007)as Bert
D-Day to Berlin(2005)
Join the Real World(2021)
The Beiderbecke Tapes(1987)
Dinnerladies Diaries(2018)as Peter, Self
All About TWO(2014)as Self - Whistler
The Royle Family: Behind the Sofa(2010)as Self, Joe Carroll
50 Greatest TV Endings(2008)as Self
The British Soap Awards 2008(2008)as Self - Audience Member
Our Friend Victoria(2017)as Caretaker
Wogan: The Best Of(2015)as Self
Harry Hill's TV Burp Gold(2008)as Len Reynolds
We Love the Royle Family(2006)as Joe