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List Of Irish Actors
This list of notable actors from Ireland includes performers in film, television, stage, and radio. Born in the 17th and 18th centuries * Spranger Barry (1719–1777) * Maria Ann Campion (1777–1803) * Thomas Doggett (1640–1721) * Anna Marcella Giffard (1707–1777) * Elizabeth O'Neill (1791–1872) Born 1800–1849 * Ada Dyas (1843–1908) Born 1850–1899 Born in the 1900s * Noel Purcell (1900-1985) * George Brent (1904–1979) * Harry Brogan (1904–1977) * Cathleen Delany (1907–1977) * Hilton Edwards (1903–1982) (born in London) * Joan Henley (1904–1986) * Ria Mooney (1903–1973) * Shelah Richards (1903–1985) * Eve Watkinson (1909–1999) Born in the 1910s * Cyril Cusack (1910–1993) (born in South Africa; Irish-English) * Eithne Dunne (1919–1988) * Geraldine Fitzgerald (1913–2005) * Marie Kean (1918–1993) * Dan O'Herlihy (1919–2005) (naturalised American citizen) * Maureen O'Sullivan (1911–1998) (naturalised American citizen) * Micheline Patt ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Spranger Barry
Spranger Barry (23 November 1719 – 10 January 1777) was an Irish actor. Life He was born in Skinner's Row, Dublin, the son of a silversmith, to whose business he was brought up. He took over the business but was not successful. His first appearance on the stage was at the Theatre Royal, Smock Alley, Dublin, on 5 February 1744, and his engagement at once increased its prosperity. His first London appearance was made in 1746 as Othello at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane. Here his talents were speedily recognized, and in ''Hamlet'' and ''Macbeth'' he alternated with David Garrick, arousing the latter's jealousy by his success as Romeo. This resulted in his leaving Drury Lane for the Covent Garden Theatre in 1750, accompanied by Mrs Cibber, his Juliet. Both houses now at once put on ''Romeo and Juliet'' for a series of rival performances, and Barry's Romeo was preferred by the critics to Garrick's. In 1758 Barry opened the Crow Street Theatre in Dublin, and later a new Th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Forrester Harvey
Forrester Harvey (27 June 1884 – 14 December 1945) was an Irish film actor. From 1922 until his death year Harvey appeared in more than 115 films. He was credited for about two-thirds of his film appearances, but some of his roles were uncredited. The burly actor with a mustache mostly played comic supporting roles, often as an innkeeper. His best-known role was Beamish in the first two Tarzan films starring Johnny Weissmuller. Together with Claude Rains, he played in '' The Invisible Man'', as a tavern owner and husband of a hysterical Una O'Connor, and in '' The Wolf Man''. He appeared in two films for Alfred Hitchcock, first in his British silent film '' The Ring'' (1927), later in Hitchcock's Hollywood debut ''Rebecca'' (1940). A number of reference works incorrectly identify him as having played Little Maria's father in ''Frankenstein''. Harvey's interment was in California. Selected filmography * '' The Lilac Sunbonnet'' (1922) as Jock Gordon * ''Somebody's Darl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eve Watkinson
Eve Watkinson (6 March 1909 – 15 November 1999) was an Irish stage, film and television actress. Biography Eve Panton Watkinson was born 6 March 1909 in Terenure to Arthur Panton Watkinson and Kate née Hollingsworth. Her father was the director of an interior decorating company called A. Panton Watkinson on St Stephen's Green. She learned acting working with an amateur group in Capel Street called Torch Theatre. She went on to work with Edward and Christine Longford's company based in the Gate Theatre. Watkinson performed in leading roles in plays by Ibsen, Sheridan, Coleman, Shakespeare and Fry. She played the Vampire Monster Mallarka in ''Carmilla'' and gained that became her nickname with the company. Left an inheritance enough to live on, Watkinson used the money she earned in acting to produce productions of her own. Watkinson also spent several years with the Bristol Old Vic Theatre company. When Raidió Teilifís Éireann began to produce television plays, she had se ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shelah Richards
Shelah Geraldine Richards (23 May 1903 – 19 January 1985), was an Irish actress, manager, director and producer. Early life Sheila Geraldine Richards was born on 23 May 1903 in Dublin, to John William Richards and Adelaide Roper. Her father was a lawyer and her mother was a suffragist who had chained herself to the railings in St. Stephen's Green. Richards went to school in Alexandra College, Dublin and after that she went to a finishing school in Paris. Though her family was not in the arts, her godmother was Beatrice Elvery. Richards attended her salons with her parents as a child. She met W.B. Yeats when she was 16. Her niece Geraldine Fitzgerald, her sister Edith Catherine Richards' daughter, was also one of Ireland pre-eminent actresses. Career Richards acting career started while attending the Dublin drama league and she was asked at short notice to replace Eileen Crowe in Juno and the Paycock, playing the role of Mary Boyle in the Abbey Theatre production. Richards ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ria Mooney
Ria Mooney (1903 – 3 January 1973) was an Irish stage and screen actress, artistic director of the Abbey Theatre (1948-1963) and director of the Gaiety School of Acting. She was the first female producer at the Abbey Theatre. Life She was born in Rathmines, a suburb of Dublin. She started acting as a child, sang with the Rathmines and Rathgar Musical Society as a teenager, and studied art at the Dublin Metropolitan School of Art. She was invited to join the Abbey Theatre in 1924 and acted alongside some of the great names of the day, such as Cyril Cusack, Maire O'Neill and F. J. McCormick in numerous plays. She played the part of Rosie Redmond in '' The Plough and the Stars'' on 8 February 1926, when the players were attacked during a riot in the theatre. She went on to play prominent roles in the period's most important Irish plays by O'Casey, Teresa Deevy, Carroll, Shiels, Robinson, Lady Gregory and Synge. After spells abroad and at the Gate Theatre she was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joan Henley
Joan Henley (2 September 1904 – 10 February 1986) was an Irish actress and radio presenter. She was active on the London stage since at least 1927 in ingenue roles, and appeared there throughout the 1930s. Her first film role was a supporting part in ''Purse Strings'' in 1933. She had a career of over 50 years in film and television, but her appearances were seldom and mostly small because she concentrated on the stage and her private life. She is probably best known for her role as the friendly spinster Teresa Alan in the Oscar-winning romance film ''A Room with a View'', which was released less than a year before her death. Joan Henley married Bruce Belfrage in 1930 and they had a son, Julian Belfrage, who became an actor's agent. After her divorce from Belfrage, she was married to author Laurence Meynell from 1956 until her death. Filmography * ''Purse Strings'' (1933) as Ida Bentley * ''Charley's Aunt'' (1938, TV Movie) as Donna Lucia * ''School for Randle'' (1949) * '' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hilton Edwards
Hilton Edwards (2 February 1903 – 18 November 1982) was an English-born Irish actor, lighting designer and theatrical producer. He co-founded the Gate Theatre with his partner Micheál Mac Liammóir and two others, and has been referred to as the founder of Irish theatre. He was one of the most recognisable figures in the arts in 20th century Ireland. Early life Edwards was born in London, the son of Thomas George Cecil Edwards and Emily Edwards (born Murphy). Career Edwards began his career acting with the Charles Doran Shakespeare Company in 1920 in Windsor and then joined the Old Vic in London, playing in all but two of Shakespeare's plays before leaving the company a few years later. Trained in music, he also sang baritone roles with the Old Vic Opera company. As an actor he played leading parts, including the title roles in ''Peer Gynt'', ''Cyrano de Bergerac'' and ''Macbeth'' and Sheridan Whiteside in ''The Man Who Came To Dinner''. On Broadway in 1966, he directed Bri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cathleen Delany
Cathleen Delany (21 July 1907 – 19 June 1997) was an Irish actress of stage and screen. Life Born Kathleen Mary Delany to journalist Alfred Delany and his wife, Kathleen Mary Kilgannon of 98 Marlboro Rd. in Dublin. She was professionally known as Cathleen Delany. She was one of the principal players of the first decade of the Gate Theatre's existence. Considered a talented singer she began in local theatre with the Rathmines and Rathgar Musical Society. From there she auditioned for the Gate. She debuted on the Gate stage in ''The Agamemnon of Aeschylus'' in 1933. Delany worked with Hilton Edwards and Micheál Mac Liammóir during their London season in 1934 and in 1936 she went with them on their first tour of Egypt. When they returned she began touring Ireland with Longford Productions. She moved to the screen and performed in a wide variety of roles. Her last stage performance was in May, 1988 in the Gate in Brian Friel's adaptation of ''Fathers and Sons''. In the 1970s, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Harry Brogan
Harry Brogan (5 May 1904 – 20 May 1977) was an Ireland, Irish actor often in comic roles. He was part of the Abbey Theatre from 1939 - 1976. 1939–1976: Abbey Theatre Harry Brogan was active in Irish theatre and a permanent member of the Abbey Theatre in 1936. He acted at the theatre for 40 years up until 1976, just before he died. He became one of the best known and best loved actors on the Irish stage, and the Abbey Theatre was where he established himself as one of the country's foremost character actors. He was best known for his portrayal of Seán O'Casey, Séan O'Casey characters,State papers 1977. (2007, ). ''The Irish Times'' performing the roles as Joxer in ''Juno and the Paycock'', and Sheamus Shiels in ''The Shadow of a Gunman, The Shadow of a gunman''. One of his last shows he performed was as Cardinal Richelieu in the play ''The Devils (play), The Devils'' in 1976, when he was 72. During his time as an actor at the Abbey Theatre he was offered official parts in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Brent
George Brent (born George Brendan Nolan; 15 March 1904 – 26 May 1979) was an Irish-American stage, film, and television actor. He is best remembered for the eleven films he made with Bette Davis, which included ''Jezebel'' and '' Dark Victory''. Early life Brent was born in Ballinasloe, County Galway, Ireland on March 15, 1904, to John J. and Mary (née McGuinness) Nolan. His father was a shopkeeper and his mother was a native of Clonfad, Moore, County Roscommon.Scott O'Brien''George Brent - Ireland's Gift to Hollywood and its Leading Ladies''(2014) BearManor; (paper back)/978-1-59393-764-5 (hard copy). In September 1915, he moved with his younger sister Kathleen to New York City. There, they joined their mother, who was living in the USA after her separation from her husband. Brent returned to Ireland in February 1921, during the Irish War of Independence (1919–1922), and was involved in the Irish Republican Army. During this period he also became involved with the Abbe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Noel Purcell (actor)
Patrick Joseph Noel Purcell (23 December 1900 – 3 March 1985) was a distinguished Irish actor of stage, screen, and television. He appeared in the 1956 film ''Moby Dick'' and the 1962 film ''Mutiny on the Bounty''. Early life and education Patrick Joseph Noel Purcell was the son of Dublin auctioneer Pierce Purcell and his second wife Catherine (''née'' Hoban), an antique dealer. He was born at 11a, Lower Mercer Street, one of two houses owned by his mother's family. Purcell was educated at Synge Street CBS. He lost the tip of his right index finger while making cigarette vending machines, and was also missing his entire left index finger due to a different accident while he was an apprentice carpenter, a feature which he exploited for dramatic effect in the film ''Mutiny on the Bounty'' (1962). Career Purcell began his show business career at the age of 12 in Dublin's Gaiety Theatre. Later, he toured Ireland in a vaudeville act with Jimmy O'Dea. Stage-trained in the cla ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arthur Shields
Arthur Shields (15 February 1896 – 27 April 1970) was an Irish actor on television, stage and film. Early years Born into an Irish Protestant family in Portobello, Dublin, Shields started acting in the Abbey Theatre when he was 17 years old. He was the younger brother of Oscar-winning actor Barry Fitzgerald. They were the sons of Adolphus Shields, who "was well-known in Dublin as a labour organiser" although the 1901 census listed his occupation as "press reader", and Fanny Sophia Shields (née Ungerland), who was German. Irish nationalist activity Along with six others of the Abbey Players, Shields fought in the Easter Rising of 1916. He was interned for six months in the Frongoch internment camp in Frongoch, Wales. His obituary in '' The Times'' of San Mateo, California, reported, "... upon his release he was decorated by the Republic of Eire." Stage Shields returned to the Abbey Theatre and had a varied career there from 1914 to 1939 as actor, assistant director, dir ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
