Pinder was born on 30 March 1960 and comes from a small family with just one younger sister, Catherine, who is 11 years younger and works in agriculture. He grew up on Downham Avenue in Great Harwood. His father was the bank manager of the National Westminster in Blackburn.
He attended Norden High School on Stourton Street in Rishton near Blackburn, where he took his A levels.
He got his first job working in a cemetery when he was 15. He joined Blackburn Arts Club then Manchester Youth at 17. He went to the Drama Centre London (now part of the University of the Arts London) in Clerkenwell.
Brookside He is known for his role in the television soap opera Brookside.
Previously in his career, he played the part of Roy Lambert in Crossroads the owner of Kings Oak corner shop. After the programme was cancelled, he appeared in two series of the sitcom Foxy Lady.
He has also appeared in C.A.T.S. Eyes and the British Broadcasting Corporation Scotland comedy series Scotch and Wry. Interviewed on the Big Breakfast.
News items Littlehampton Gazette August 2008 Peter Pan at the Wyvern in Swindon in 2005 Lancashire Evening Telegraph September 2004.
