Martin Clunes

A keen camper van driver, Clunes is married to producer Philippa Braithwaite and has a daughter, Emily. Although he cannot remember any details of the incident, he still has a dent in his forehead from a piece of wood that smashed through the car window. Clunes was also frequently recruited by his friend and former Men Behaving Badly co-star Harry Enfield to play charcaters in his sketch shows. Gorden suffered serious head injuries in a car accident in 1990 (see also Burns' Day storm). Clunes won much acclaim for his role and seems a popular choice for a permanent role. The unusual spelling of the name Gorden is due to an Equity typing error. When Angus Deayton was sacked as host of Have I Got News For You, Clunes was one of several people recruited to guest host the topical news quiz, having been an extremely successful panellist and stand-in captain in the past (he joked that, as he had been a contestant on the show so many times that there was now only one chair on the set that he had not sat in, before dropping a spotlight and dramatic music on Ian Hislop). He has worked on television, radio, film and on the stage.

In 2002 he played serial killer John George Haigh in A Is for Acid, and four years earlier he starred as Richard Burbage in Shakespeare in Love. Gordon Kaye, 7 April 1941 Huddersfield) is most famous in the UK for his work on television sitcom Allo Allo, where he played the character of René Artois. Clunes is an established dramatic actor too, starring in the films An Evening With Gary Lineker, Staggered and Saving Grace. Gorden Kaye (b. His first television appearance came a decade earlier in Doctor Who, and he also got a role as one of the sons in the BBC sitcom No Place Like Home. The son of actor Alec Clunes, he is best known as Gary in the sitcom Men Behaving Badly which was broadcast from 1992 to 1998.

Martin Clunes (born 28 November 1961) is a British actor.