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Ronan O'Casey (18 August 1922 – 12 April 2012) was a Canadian actor and producer.[1]

Ronan O'Casey
Born	(1922-08-18)August 18, 1922 Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Died	April 12, 2012(2012-04-12) (aged 89) Los Angeles, California, U.S.
Nationality	Canadian
Occupation	Actor, producer
Years active	1948–1993

Early life

O'Casey was born in Montreal, Quebec, to poet father, Michael Casey, and actress mother, Margaret Sheehy, a Dubliner who had co-starred with the young James Joyce in his first stage role. At the age of eight Ronan O'Casey began acting in his mother's Montreal theatre company and, after tours in theatre and vaudeville, he moved to Dublin and then to London.

O'Casey was at one time a leading ice hockey player in his native Montreal, skills which he was able to put to use during the filming of children's adventure serial The New Forest Rustlers, in which he played the leader of a gang planning to steal a priceless Rembrandt.[2]

Career

O'Casey found early success in post-war films such as The Mudlark (1950), Talk of a Million (1951) and Norman Wisdom's Trouble in Store (1953), going on to play the prisoner of Room 101 in 1984 and the sergeant in Nicholas Ray's war film Bitter Victory (1957). While starring in the West End play Detective Story he met actress and singer Louie Ramsay, whom he married in 1956.[3][4]

O'Casey's comedy talents brought him his best known role, as Jeff Rogers, Canadian son-in-law of Peggy Mount, in the TV sitcom The Larkins (1958–64). He was host of ITV's charades gameshow Don't Say a Word (1963),[5] a panel game with two teams led by Libby Morris and Kenneth Connor.[6] and co-host of Rediffusion's Sing A Song of Sixpence show.[7] In 1966 he was cast as Vanessa Redgrave's lover, the "blow-up" of Antonioni's Blow-Up (1966).

O'Casey also appeared on stage, in plays such as Forever April at the Nottingham Playhouse, in which he co-starred with Kenneth Connor in 1966.[8] and Eugene O'Neill's Desire Under the Elms at London's Embassy Theatre in 1955.[9]

As literary head of the production company Commonwealth United, O'Casey was an associate producer on Terry Southern's The Magic Christian (1969) with Ringo Starr, Peter Sellers and a soundtrack by Badfinger. O'Casey was divorced from Louie Ramsay in 1979, and, after moving to the United States in 1980, he married the writer Carol Tavris. He had roles in many US television shows, including L.A. Law, Easy Street, Falcon Crest and Dallas and Santa Barbara. In later years he wrote and staged a one-man play in Los Angeles on the poetry of Yeats by O'Casey.

Stage

Play	Year	Role	Theatre	Notes
Detective Story	1950	Warren Stanhope	Prince's Theatre	[10]
Louise	1950		The Q	[11]
Kiss Me Kate	1951	Ralph	New Theatre, Oxford Coliseum, London	[12][13]
The Shrike	1953	Don Gregory	Theatre Royal, Brighton	[14]
Queen of Hearts	1954	Knave of Hearts	Bournemouth Ice Rink	[15]
Desire Under the Elms	1955	Simeon	Embassy Theatre
The Kidders	1957	Steve Bucknell	Arts Theatre	[16][17]
The First Fish	1964		Savoy	[18][19]
Harvey	1965		Palace Theatre, Southend	[20]
The Rivals	1965	Sir Lucius	Theatre Royal, Windsor	[21]
They Shoot Actors, Don't They?	1970	EQUITY Charity Event	Roundhouse, London	[22]

Filmography

Film

Title	Year	Role	Notes
The Man Who Came To Dinner	1947	Richard Stanley	TV movie
Rotten Row	1947	Captain Collins	TV movie
The Soul of Anthony Nero	1947	Jimmy	TV movie
Death at Newtonstewart	1948	Moncrieff	TV movie
The Monkey's Paw	1948	Herbert Wright	TV Short
The Front Page	1948	Besinger	TV movie
Give Us This Day	1949	Bastian	[23]
The Mudlark	1950	Slattery	Uncredited
Talk of a Million	1951	Derry Murnahan	[24][25]
Three Steps to the Gallows	1953	Crawson
Top of the Form	1953	Brother of boy
Trouble in Store	1953	Eddie
Escape by Night	1953	Pietro
Double Exposure	1954	Trickson
Happy Ever After	1954	Reporter
Tiger by the Tail[26] (a.k.a. Cross-Up)	1954	Nick, lead henchman
The Gilded Cage	1955	Charles Liddell
Barbados Quest	1955	Stefan Gordoni
1984	1956	Rutherford	[27]
Reach For the Sky	1956	Canadian Pilot / Coltishall II	Uncredited
Satellite in the Sky	1956	Reporter
The Big Money	1956	Gang Member	Uncredited
Bitter Victory	1957	Sergeant Dunnigan
Blind Spot	1958	Rushford
Inn For Trouble	1960	Jeff Roberts
Blowup	1966	Jane's lover in park	Uncredited[28]
Feelings	1976	John Roberts
The Double Exposure of Holly	1976	Lee
The Protector	1985	Police Commissioner
The Beverly Hillbillies	1993	Man at Party	(final film role)

TV

Title	Year	Role	Notes
Happy Ever After	1954	Reporter
Willie the Squouse	1954	Richard	TV movie
The Vise	1954-1956	Archie / Thompson / Paul / Dillon	4 episodes
BBC Sunday Night Theatre	1955	McAllister	Episode: "The Voices"
The Trollenberg Terror (a.k.a. The Crawling Eye)	1956-1957	Albert	6 episodes
ITV Play of the Week	1956-1958	Frank Lubey / Glenn / Private O'Hara / Philip Gadney	4 episodes
The Buccaneers	1957	Understandable Perkins	Episode: "Indian Fighters"
Alf's Button	1958	?	[29]
All My Sons	1958		[30]
Armchair Theatre	1958-1959	Slim Murray / William R. Rush	3 episodes
The Larkins	1958-1963	Jeff Rogers	27 episodes
The Four Just Men	1959-1960	Dexter / Joe	2 episodes[31]
A Town Has Turned to Dust	1960	?	[32]
The New Forest Rustlers	1966	The Chief	6 episodes[33]
Ryan's Hope	1980-1981	Chip Willard	2 episodes
The A-Team	1986	Ambassador Moo	Episode: "The Spy Who Mugged Me"
L.A. Law	1986	Gregory Northrop	Episode: "Sidney, the Dead-Nosed Reindeer"
Santa Barbara	1986-1989	Bishop / Psychiatrist	10 episodes
Shell Game	1987	Nathan Thayer	Episode: "Norman's Parking Ticket"
Easy Street	1987	Ross Chamberlain	Episode: "The Country Club"
Sledge Hammer!	1987	Milo Tieup	Episode: "Sledge in Toyland"
Falcon Crest	1987-1989	Elroy Higgins / Ambassador	2 episodes

References

External links

• Ronan O'Casey at the BFI

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Ronan O'Casey (18 de agosto de 1922-12 de abril de 2012) fue un actor y productor canadiense[1].

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