Roger Martin (actor)

Martin trained as an actor at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, and made his professional debut in his home town of Stoke-on-Trent, acting from 1974 to 1976 with the Victoria Theatre Company under its founder and Artistic Director Peter Cheeseman.

He went on to appear in Holding the Fort (1980), a BBC production of The Merchant of Venice (1980), The Professionals (1980), Yes Minister (1981), The Setbacks (1981), Angels (1982), and In Sickness and in Health (1985).

Further television appearances include Roger Duff in the final series of No Place Like Home (1987), Bread (1991), Anglo-Saxon Attitudes (1992), Minder (1993), Resnick: Rough Treatment (1993), Anna Lee (1994), Shine on Harvey Moon (1995), Call Red (1996), Jack and Jeremy's Real Lives (1996), Does China Exist?

(1997), The Jump (1998), EastEnders (1999), Midsomer Murders (2002), My Dad's the Prime Minister (2003), The Brief (2004), 55 Degrees North (2004), Judge John Deed (2005), Casualty (2007), Doctors (2006-9), and Trial & Retribution (2008).

His directing credits include Clive Barker’s The Secret Life of Cartoons, Three Men on the Bummel, Shakespeare – The Good Beer Guide, performed at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, Duet for One at the Lyric Theatre in Hammersmith, Songs from the Head (a song-cycle for which he wrote both the music and lyrics) at the Redgrave Theatre in Farnham; and Raspberry and Scrooge for the London Fringe Festival.

He has recently starred in Sunlife Over 50s Insurance adverts where his character displays a liking for Parsnip Jam and Binoculars.