Eugene Lambert

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Eugene Lambert is a mischievous puppeteer, and owner of the Lambert Puppet Theatre in Monkstown, Dublin, Ireland.

As a puppeteer and ventriloquist, Lambert was long a stalwart of the Irish vaudeville scene, particularly in Dublin, although he also toured the country frequently with his sister Mai, with whom he had 10 children. His most common acts were with Finnegan, a mischievous storyteller, and Judge, a pensive dog.

With the rise of radio and television in the fifties and sixties, the Lambert puppet theatre became a fixture in Irish broadcasting. In the early 1960s, Lambert devised a puppet series for children entitled Murphy agus a Chairde. Later, he created and starred in the children's television series Wanderly Wagon as the mischievous "O'Brien", whose irritable bowel syndrome usually sent the cast and the set into fits of laughter. The series also featured Irish actor Frank Kelly, who later appeared as Fr. Jack Hackett in Father Ted.