He is best known for his role as Ron Frost in the television series Angels, Mike Conrad in Emmerdale and for appearing alongside Berwick Kaler in the annual York Theatre Royal Pantomime every year from 1984 onwards.
[2] Martin first appeared in Angels, a BBC drama based around nurses in a London Hospital.He also played Mike , a close friend of Jackie Merrick and Archie Brooks in Emmerdale Farm.
In 1982, he appeared in an award-winning Channel 4 film, Remembrance, alongside Gary Oldman, John Altman and Timothy Spall.
[4] Besides acting in serious and non-York based roles, Barrass is famous for being the sidekick of Berwick Kaler in the Pantomimes performed at York's Theatre Royal since 1985.
[7] It was later revealed that Barrass had suffered 17 fractured ribs, a "mashed" liver, a broken ankle and his heart had stopped for five minutes.