• Terence Brady (writer)
  {{Short description|Irish actor and writer}} | nationality = Irish
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• Dermot Kelly (actor)
  '''''Dermot Kelly'' ''' (1918–1980) was an Irish actor often in comic roles, in films and on TV.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https:// * ''[[Sally's Irish Rogue]]'' (1959) as McKeefry
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• Blake Butler
  '''John David Blake Butler'''<ref>Burke's Irish Family Records, ed. Hugh Montgomery-Massingberd, Burke's Peerage Ltd, 1976, ...ne#Barons_Dunboyne_(1324)|James Butler, 10th Baron Dunboyne]].<ref>Burke's Irish Family Records, ed. Hugh Montgomery-Massingberd, Burke's Peerage Ltd, 1976,
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• Jackie Wright
  ...also nicknamed '''Little Jackie''' and '''Uncle Jackie''', was a Northern Irish comedian. ...inutive stature – he was only {{convert|4|ft|11|in|m}} tall – and Northern Irish accent became assets to the comedy.
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• Bartlett Mullins
  * ''[[Daughter of Darkness (1948 film)|Daughter of Darkness]]'' (1948) - Irish Shopkeeper (uncredited) * ''[[A Nice Girl Like Me]]'' (1969) - Male Basket Weaver
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• David Kelly (actor)
  | birth_place = [[Dublin]], [[Irish Free State|Ireland]] | nationality = Irish
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• Stephen Lewis (actor)
  ==Television== ==Later television roles==
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• Joseph O'Conor
  '''Joseph O'Conor''' (14 February 1916 &ndash; 21 January 2001) was an Irish actor and playwright. ...elevision and film activities. In 1967 he played Old Jolyon Forsyte in the television series ''[[w:The Forsyte Saga (1967 series)|The Forsyte Saga]]''<ref name=f
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• Harry Towb
  {{Short description|Northern Irish actor (1925–2009)}} ...in Russia|Russian-Jewish]] father and an [[History of the Jews in Ireland|Irish-Jewish]] mother; he once claimed he was the only [[Jews|Jew]] ever born in
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• Joe Gladwin
  ...:rhotacism (speech impediment)|rhotacism]] he became well known in British television, especially prominent from 1975 until his death in 1987. ...te web|url=http://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/schedules/bbctv/1959-10-26|title=BBC Television – 26 October 1959 – BBC Genome|website=genome.ch.bbc.co.uk}}</ref> He h
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• Peter Graves, 8th Baron Graves
  ...}}</ref> He continued acting until a few years before his death, mostly on television.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.aveleyman.com/ActorCredit.aspx?ActorID=5641 ...he succeeded his father as eighth Baron Graves. However, as this was an [[Irish peerage]] it did not entitle him to a seat in the [[House of Lords]].
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• Arthur Haynes
  ...'The Arthur Haynes Show'', a comedy sketch series produced by [[Associated Television|ATV]] from 1956<ref name="lostshows">[http://lostshows.com/default.aspx?pro ...name="BBC/BFI"/> which was supposed to air talent for the new independent television station. [[Nicholas Parsons]] (in ''That Reminds Me'', April 1999) said the
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• Sam Kelly
  ...the stage name '''Sam Kelly''', was an English actor who appeared in film, television, radio and theatre. He is best known for his roles as [[Captain Hans Geerin ...omething]]'' as Les Brooks. From 1990 to 1992, he co-starred in the comedy television series ''[[Haggard (TV series)|Haggard]]''. In 1994, he appeared as Mr. Mou
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• Wilfrid Brambell
  ...Albert Steptoe alongside [[Harry H. Corbett]] in the long-running [[BBC]] television sitcom ''[[Steptoe and Son]]'' (1962–65, 1970–74). He achieved internat ...War]]. After leaving school, he worked part-time as a reporter for ''[[The Irish Times]]'' and part-time as an actor at the [[Abbey Theatre]] before becomin
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• Milo O'Shea
  '''Milo Donal O'Shea''' (2 June 1926 – 2 April 2013) was an [[Irish people|Irish]] actor. He was twice nominated for the [[Tony Award for Best Actor in a Pl ...ast=Coveney|first=Michael|title=Milo O'Shea obituary: Milo O'Shea obituary Irish stage and screen character actor who appeared in Barbarella, The Verdict an
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• Mel Smith
  | medium = Film, television ...kback]], which grew to be one of the United Kingdom's largest producers of television comedy and light entertainment programming.
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• Charles Victor
  ...ecember 1965) was a [[UK|British]] [[actor]] who appeared in many film and television roles between 1931 and 1965.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/si * ''[[The Next of Kin]]'' (1942) as Joe, Irish seaman
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• Frank Carson
  | medium = Television ...dian and actor from Belfast. He was best known for being a regular face on television for many years from the 1970s onwards, appearing in series such as ''[[The
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• Tony Booth (actor)
  ...7|access-date=26 September 2017}}</ref> His mother was a Roman Catholic of Irish descent, and his father was a merchant seaman during [[World War II]] and C ...)|Owd Bob]]'' (1997).<ref name="BBC"/> He appeared early in the run of the television series ''[[Coronation Street]]'' in 1960 and in an episode of ''[[The Aveng
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• Fulton Mackay
  ...rections officer|prison officer]] [[w:Mr. Mackay|Mr. Mackay]] in the 1970s television [[w:situation comedy|sitcom]] ''[[w:Porridge (1974 TV series)|Porridge]]''. Mackay was a director of the Scottish Actors' Company and, in 1981, a founder of the [[Scottish Theatre Company]], playi
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