Acting

Patrick Drury

Born 1945-08-19 · London, England, UK

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.

Credits

Newest first

Adnan Syed: Overturned
Director of Photography
2022
RSC Live: Timon of Athens
as Flavius
2019
Queen Marie of Romania
as Woodrow Wilson
2019
RSC Live: Titus Andronicus
as Marcus Andronicus
2017
RSC Live: Antony & Cleopatra
as Lepidus
2017
The Crown
as Lord Chamberlain
2016
Ripper Street
as Col. Sir Edward Bradford
2012
Lennon Naked
as Apple Accountant
2010
Murder in Suburbia
as Kieran Doyle
2004
Midsomer Murders
as Robin Wooliscroft
1997
Midsomer Murders
as Connor Simpson
1997
Coriolanus
as Comminius
1997
Father Ted
as John O'Leary
1995
A Breed of Heroes
as Maj. Anthony Hamilton-Smith
1994
Moon and Son
as Inspector Sardou
1992
The Men's Room
as James Walton
1991
Soldier Soldier
as Lt Col Mark Osbourne
1991
In Suspicious Circumstances
as Jack Derham
1991
Shoot to Kill
as Detective Inspector
1990
Screen One
as Maj. Anthony Hamilton-Smith
1989
The Beiderbecke Connection
as Ivan
1988
The Ruth Rendell Mysteries
as Chief Supt. Howard Fortune
1987
Up Line
as Brian O'Brien
1987
Up Line
as Brian O'Brien
1987
Inspector Morse
as Frank McTeer
1987
Florence Nightingale
as Henry Nicholson
1985
Laughterhouse
as David Wolmer
1984
Shine on Harvey Moon
as Adrian Horowitz
1982
The Awakening
as Paul Whittier
1980
I, Claudius
as Courier
1976
Rumpole of the Bailey
as Desmond Casterini
1975