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Slight in build, his large nose led to his being known by many people as "Nosy Kelly." At 18, Kelly enlisted in the British Army but was dishonourably discharged in 1951 for going AWOL. [1] He moved back and forth between Dublin and London for a number of years before settling in London permanently in about 1960. There he married, had a number ...
This list of notable actors from Ireland includes performers in film, television, stage, and radio. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness.
William Desmond Taylor (born William Cunningham Deane-Tanner; 26 April 1872 – 1 February 1922) was an Anglo-Irish-American film director and actor. A popular figure in the growing Hollywood motion picture colony of the 1910s and early 1920s, Taylor directed fifty-nine silent films between 1914 and 1922 and acted in twenty-seven between 1913 and 1915.
The Irish president has led tributes to comedian and actor Jon Kenny, who has died at the age of 66. The Limerick actor was best known as one half of the comic duo D’Unbelievables with Pat Shortt.
Patrick Joseph McGoohan (/ m ə ˈ ɡ uː. ə n /; March 19, 1928 – January 13, 2009) was an Irish-American actor of film, television, and theatre.Born in New York City to Irish parents, he was raised in Ireland and England.
Gabriel James Byrne (born 12 May 1950) [1] is an Irish actor. He has received a Golden Globe Award as well as nominations for a Grammy Award , two Primetime Emmy Awards and two Tony Awards . Byrne was awarded the Irish Film and Television Academy Lifetime Achievement Award in 2018 and was listed at number 17 on The Irish Times list of Ireland's ...
Morgan was born in Dublin, the son of Hilda "Holly" (née Stokes) and Donnchadh Morgan, a civil servant and gifted amateur artist and sculptor. His father died young of an aneurysm, leaving Holly with three children: Dermot, Paul, and Denise. A fourth child, Ruth, died in childhood in 1956.
He was often called upon as a character actor in various military, religious and judicial roles in films such as I See a Dark Stranger (1946), Captain Boycott (1947), High Treason (1951), The Cruel Sea (1953), Playboy of the Western World (1962), Kid Galahad (1962), The Luck of Ginger Coffey (1964), Tobruk (1967), The Ghost and Mr. Chicken ...