Patrick Drury

Patrick Drury

Historia

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.

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Patrick Drury

Películas

RSC Live: Timon of Athens
Flavius
Timon has it all – money, influence, friends. Surely it can’t last? When the money runs out, Timon soon finds her influence and friends have also gone. Left alone, she flees Athens to take refuge in the woods, cursing the city she once loved.
Queen Marie of Romania
Woodrow Wilson
Devastada por la Primera Guerra Mundial y sumida en una controversia política, cada esperanza de Rumania acompaña a su Reina en su misión a París, para presionar por el reconocimiento internacional de su gran unificación en las conversaciones de paz de 1919.
RSC Live: Titus Andronicus
Marcus Andronicus
The decay of Rome reaches violent depths in Shakespeareas most bloody play. Titus is a ruler exhausted by war and loss, who relinquishes power but leaves Rome in disorder. Rape, cannibalism and severed body parts fill the moral void at the heart of this corrupt society. Shakespeareas gory revenge tragedy presents us with murder as entertainment, and, as the body count piles up, poses questions about the nature of sexuality, family, class and society.
RSC Live: Antony & Cleopatra
Lepidus
Following Caesaras assassination, Mark Antony has reached the heights of power. Now he has neglected his empire for a life of decadent seduction with his mistress, Cleopatra, Queen of Egypt. Torn between love and duty, Antonyas military brilliance deserts him, and his passion leads the lovers to their tragic end.
Lennon Naked
Apple Accountant
A profile of John Lennon in the late 1960s as the Beatles are set to fall apart.
A Breed of Heroes
Maj. Anthony Hamilton-Smith
In 1971, fresh-faced, eager for heroics, the young officers arrive in Belfast. Pelted with rocks by kids, sniped at by the IRA, they take refuge in sex, black humour and the weird rituals of the officers' mess.
The Men's Room
James Walton
A black comedy and period piece set during the Thatcher years, it tells the story of an affair between two academics, previously devoted wife and mother Charity Walton (Harriet Walter) and serial womanizer Mark Carleton (Bill Nighy)
Shoot To Kill
Detective Inspector
Shoot to Kill is a four-hour drama documentary reconstruction of the events that led to the 1984–86 Stalker Inquiry into the shooting of six terrorist suspects in Northern Ireland in 1982 by a specialist unit of the Royal Ulster Constabulary (RUC), allegedly without warning (the so-called shoot-to-kill policy); the organised fabrication of false accounts of the events; and the difficulties created for the inquiry team in their investigation.
Up Line
Brian O'Brien
Three alternative comedians get involved in a pyramid-selling organization, Pathway, in order to finance their act. They gain great success by deploying their skills as entertainers, only to eventually discover the sinister purpose behind the Pathway organization.
Laughterhouse
David Wolmer
A farmer becomes an unintentional celebrity when, because of a strike, he has to walk his 5000 geese 100 miles to market.
El despertar
Paul Whittier
Un arqueólogo y su ayudante, una bella joven, encuentran después de una intensa búsqueda, la tumba de la faraona Kara. Cuando la abren, la esposa del arqueólogo, que siente celos de la ayudante de su marido y se encuentra embarazada, da a luz prematuramente una niña, por lo que se teme que la maldición de la faraona caiga sobre la recién nacida.