Lawrence Douglas "Larry" Lamb (born (1947-10-10)10 October 1947) is an English actor and radio talk-show presenter. He played Archie Mitchell in the BBC television soap EastEnders, Mick Shipman in the BBC television romantic comedy Gavin & Stacey and Mischievous Marty in the cult sitcom Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf?

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Lamb lives with his girlfriend, Clare Burt. He is the father of BBC 6 Music disc jockey, Celebrity Scissorhands and Big Brother's Little Brother presenter George Lamb, from his previous marriage to Linda Martin. He also has three daughters, Vanessa Clare Lamb (born 1969), Eloise Alexandra (born 1999 in Islington) and Eva-Mathilde Lamb (born 2003 in Camden) with Clare Burt.

Lamb is sponsoring two young Senegalese girls, Fatou and Oumou, through school.

In 2011, Lamb participated in the BBC's "Who Do You Think You Are" and found out that he was descended from a line of proprietors of Day's Menagerie and the famous Martini Bartlett lion tamer. He is also distantly related to Edward Buckton Lamb (1806 - 1869) who was a Victorian architect. E.B. Lamb designed St Martin Gospel Oak and St Mary Addiscombe Surrey.(Victorian architecture - Dixon/Muthesius).

In 2011, Lamb's autobiography Mummy's Boy was published by Coronet, an imprint of Hodder and Stoughton.