Martin Barrass is an English film, television and theatre actor as well as being a DJ on local radio. He is best known for his role as Ron Frost in the television series Angels, Mike Conrad in

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and for appearing alongside Berwick Kaler in the annual York Theatre Royal Pantomime every year from 1984 onwards.

Career

Martin studied at the Webber Douglas Academy of Dramatic Art with

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. 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

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film, Remembrance, alongside Gary Oldman, John Altman and

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. In 2014 Martin started doing a lunchtime time slot of BBC Radio York. The show is a mix of music, comedy and interviews.

Theatre

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. Barrass also takes part in productions run by the

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Personal life

Barrass was born in Kingston upon Hull, but now lives and works mainly in York. In September 2016, Barrass was involved in a motorbike collision near to

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. He was airlifted to

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where he was kept in a medically induced coma for several days. 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. Barrass intends to return to the stage in February 2017 as part of Hull's City of Culture year.

Filmography

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Barrass, Martin 1956 births Living people 20th-century English male actors 21st-century English male actors English male stage actors English male television actors Male actors from Kingston upon Hull