Alexander Martin Clunes OBE DL was born on 28 November 1961 and is an English actor, comedian, director and television presenter.
35 Facts About Martin Clunes
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Martin Clunes is best known for portraying Martin Ellingham in the ITV comedy-drama series Doc Martin and Gary Strang in Men Behaving Badly.
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Martin Clunes has since presented a number of documentaries centred on animals.
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Martin Clunes has voiced Kipper the Dog in the animated series Kipper.
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Martin Clunes was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire in the 2015 Birthday Honours for services to drama, charity and the community in Dorset.
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Martin Clunes was educated at the Royal Russell School in Croydon, and later at the Arts Educational Schools, London.
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Martin Clunes is related to actor Jeremy Brett, who was variously described as either Martin Clunes' uncle or cousin.
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Alec Martin Clunes died in 1970 of lung cancer when his son was eight years old.
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Martin Clunes served his first role in rep at the Mercury Theatre, Colchester, and his first television appearance was in an adaptation of Mikhail Bulgakov's The White Guard for the BBC Play of the Month in 1982, followed by the Doctor Who story Snakedance in 1983.
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Martin Clunes got his first regular television role as one of the sons in the BBC sitcom No Place Like Home, and then starred in two series of the sitcom All at No 20.
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Martin Clunes played the part of Group Captain Barker in the two-part TV mini-series Over Here that same year.
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Since 1994, Martin Clunes has frequently appeared on the BBC One panel show Have I Got News for You as a panelist or a guest presenter.
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Martin Clunes has since appeared in films and television shows such as An Evening with Gary Lineker, Staggered, Hunting Venus, The Booze Cruise, Saving Grace and Jeeves and Wooster.
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Martin Clunes has acted frequently for the radio, including a guest appearance in the BBC Radio 4 series Baldi.
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In 2002, Martin Clunes played serial killer John George Haigh in a Yorkshire TV production A Is for Acid, and took the lead in ITV's production of Goodbye Mr Chips.
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Martin Clunes was one of the eponymous leads in the 2004 ITV comedy-drama William and Mary, with Julie Graham.
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Martin Clunes had worked with Julie Graham previously on Dirty Tricks.
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Martin Clunes is a regular voice-over artist and is the voice of Kipper in the animated children's series Kipper the Dog.
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Martin Clunes appeared in a television dramatisation of Fungus the Bogeyman playing Jessica White's father.
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Between 2009 and 2010, Martin Clunes starred on BBC One television in the title role of Reggie Perrin, a re-make of classic 1970s British situation comedy The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin.
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In 2018, Martin Clunes played the role of DCI Colin Sutton in the ITV drama Manhunt.
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Martin Clunes played Brock in the 1990 film The Russia House.
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Martin Clunes played a character called Martin in the 1992 film Carry On Columbus; Richard Burbage in the 1998 film Shakespeare in Love; and Anthony Staxton-Billing in Sweet Revenge the same year.
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In 2011, Martin Clunes voiced the mischievous dog Dudley in the short film Me or the Dog, starring Edward Hogg and directed by Abner Pastoll.
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In 2009, Martin Clunes presented a three-part ITV series Islands of Britain, which saw him travelling around several of the country's lesser known islands.
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In 2010 Martin Clunes presented ITV mini-series Horsepower about man's relationship over time with the horse.
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On 31 January 2013, Martin Clunes narrated ITV documentary Secret Life of Dogs.
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Martin Clunes voiced ITV programmes Secrets of Growing Old, Secrets of Growing Up and Britain's Favourite Dogs.
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In January 2011, Martin Clunes became a patron of Animal Care in Egypt.
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Martin Clunes was a patron of the Born Free Foundation, and had filmed several adverts for the charity.
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Martin Clunes has been involved in the Comic Relief charity which funds Survival International and African Initiatives, two organisations working with the Maasai on indigenous land rights issues.
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Martin Clunes is a celebrity supporter of The Dog Rescue Federation.
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Martin Clunes was made an Officer of the Order of the British Empire in the Civil Division on 13 June 2015 in the 2015 Queen's Birthday Honours List.
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Martin Clunes was appointed as a Deputy Lieutenant of the County of Dorset on 19 June 2019.
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Martin Clunes has been president of the British Horse Society since 1 June 2011.