Jonathan Coleman/Wife, July 9, 2021 To view a photo in more detail or edit captions for photos you added, click the photo to open the photo viewer. (1993), he played the alcoholically challenged gourmet cook Gustave LaRoche. Please check your email and click on the link to activate your account. var hitConverted, hitObject = false, action; } hit[gaMap[arg]] = args[arg]; Martin Clunes played this role, which also spanned across two further films, called Doc Martin (2001) and Doc Martin and the Legend of the Cloutie (2003). Although the fictional Dr. Martin Ellingham hates dogs with a fiery passion and is often seen chasing strays from his surgery, the actor who portrays him, Martin Clunes, is a great lover of dogs and brings them with him to the sets every day, and admitted that he always felt terribly guilty about having to chase and yell at the stray dog that appears through the series.