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Patrick Drury

Patrick Drury

Patrick Drury

ACTING

Biography

Patrick Drury is a character actor best known for playing shopkeeper John O'Leary in the Channel 4 television comedy Father Ted. His film credits include the horror movie The Awakening (1980) starring Charlton Heston, and the 1984 comedy Laughterhouse (also known as Singleton's Pluck) with Ian Holm. He was previously married to actress Caroline Langrishe.

Best known for:

The Crown

Midsomer Murders

Father Ted

Ripper Street

Inspector Morse

The Awakening

Queen Marie of Romania

Lennon Naked

Soldier Soldier

The Ruth Rendell Mysteries

Shine on Harvey Moon

The Beiderbecke Connection

Laughterhouse

A Breed of Heroes

Coriolanus

Adnan Syed: Overturned

Up Line

Shoot to Kill

Moon and Son

RSC Live: Antony & Cleopatra

RSC Live: Titus Andronicus

RSC Live: Timon of Athens

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Filmography:

The Awakening (1980)
4
APPEREAD AS:
Paul Whittier
Shine on Harvey Moon (1982)
APPEREAD AS:
Adrian Horowitz
Laughterhouse (1984)
APPEREAD AS:
David Wolmer
Inspector Morse (1987)
6.6
APPEREAD AS:
Frank McTeer
The Ruth Rendell Mysteries (1987)
APPEREAD AS:
Chief Supt. Howard Fortune
Up Line (1987)
APPEREAD AS:
Brian O'Brien
Shoot to Kill (1990)
APPEREAD AS:
Detective Inspector
Soldier Soldier (1991)
APPEREAD AS:
Lt Col Mark Osbourne

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Moon and Son (1992)
APPEREAD AS:
Inspector Sardou
A Breed of Heroes (1994)
APPEREAD AS:
Maj. Anthony Hamilton-Smith
Father Ted (1995)
7
APPEREAD AS:
John O'Leary
Midsomer Murders (1997)
6.2
APPEREAD AS:
Robin Wooliscroft, Connor Simpson
Coriolanus (1997)
APPEREAD AS:
Comminius
Lennon Naked (2010)
APPEREAD AS:
Apple Accountant
Ripper Street (2012)
6.2
APPEREAD AS:
Col. Sir Edward Bradford
The Crown (2016)
7.2
APPEREAD AS:
Lord Chamberlain

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RSC Live: Antony & Cleopatra (2017)
APPEREAD AS:
Lepidus
RSC Live: Titus Andronicus (2017)
APPEREAD AS:
Marcus Andronicus
Queen Marie of Romania (2019)
APPEREAD AS:
Woodrow Wilson
RSC Live: Timon of Athens (2019)
APPEREAD AS:
Flavius
Adnan Syed: Overturned (2022)
WORK AS:
Director of Photography

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