Trivia

Retired after a stroke in 1992.

He received his formal education at Eastbrook Secondary Modern School, in Dagenham.

He played the role of Alain Muny in the 1970s BBC drama series Secret Army, and wrote a stage musical entitled Jack the Ripper (1974), about the Victorian murder spree in London in the late 1880s, which is regularly produced by amateur theatre groups and companies around the globe.

In the mid-1950s he enlisted as an Aircraftman with the Royal Air Force as part of the UK's National Service military training system, being stationed in Egypt.

In a career stretching over 30 years, he was a character actor in British television productions in the 1970s-1980s, usually in bit-parts, or as a support playing a world-wise everyman.

In the late 1950s, he was a member of a Bexhill-on-Sea repertory company The Penguin Players, which performed at the De La Warr Pavilion.

He appeared in cinema for the first time in an uncredited role in the film The Pumpkin Eater (1964), and appeared in a dramatized television adaptation of Pilgrim's Progress (1967) in several roles. He also appeared in the cinema film Poor Cow (also 1967).

In 1961, Pember made his television debut in the bit-part as a wounded soldier in an episode of the series Looking About, entitled 'Florence Nightingale', subsequently appearing in the same year in the television play Looking for Frankie, and an episode of the police drama series Dixon of Dock Green.