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Dan O'Herlihy. Character actor and idiosyncratic leading man who performed with the Gate Theatre and the Abbey Players in Dublin before immigrating to the USA, O'Herlihy filled up the screen with ...
O'Herlihy was cast as sadistic killer Dan Suggs in the 1989 miniseries Lonesome Dove. By the 1990s, O'Herlihy had permanently relocated to the UK , where he preferred to work in the theatre and on television, with roles on British television, including Coded Hostile , Sharpe , Jonathan Creek , and Midsomer Murders .
Dan O’Herlihy (actor): Best remembered as RoboCop’s creepy chairman, O’Herlihy was a unique Best Actor Oscar contender during the studio era: A relatively little-known performer shortlisted for work in a low-budget and (mostly) foreign production, Luis Buñuel’s Adventures of Robinson Crusoe (1954).
Daniel Peter O'Herlihy was an Irish actor of film, television and radio. O'Herlihy's best-known roles included his Oscar-nominated portrayal of the lead character in Luis Buñuel's Robinson Crusoe (1954), Brigadier General Warren A. Black in Fail Safe (1964), Marshal Ney in Waterloo (1970), Conal Cochran in Halloween III: Season of the Witch (1982), Grig in The Last Starfighter (1984), "The Old Man" in RoboCop (1987) and its 1990 sequel, and Andrew Packard in the television series Twin Peaks ...
Feb 21, 2005 · A tall, blond character actor with a rich Irish brogue, Dan O'Herlihy won an Oscar nomination as Best Actor for playing the title role in Luis Buñuel's The Adventures of Robinson Crusoe (1954).
Feb 18, 2005 · Irish actor Dan O’Herlihy, nominated for an Oscar in 1954 for his performance in Luis Bunuel’s “The Adventures of Robinson Crusoe,” has died at age 85 at his home in Malibu, California, a ...
Maume, Patrick. O'Herlihy, Dan (Daniel Peter) (1919–2005), actor, was born 1 May 1919 at Odessa Cottage, Wexford town, son of John Robert O'Herlihy, a civil servant from Cork who later worked in the Department of Industry and Commerce, and his wife Ellen (née Hanton), from Wexford; they had at least one daughter, and a younger son, Michael O ...
