Richard O'Callaghan
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Richard O'Callaghan is an English
film, stage and television character actor
.
Born on 7 March 1940, he is the son of actors Patricia Hayes
and Valentine Brooke whose stage name was Valentine Rooke. As a boy actor he was known as Richard Brooke. He has led a versatile career in film, stage and television in a wide range of roles. He took over the role of the clumsy but sympathetic romantic lead previously played by Jim Dale
, in the Carry On films Carry On Loving
(1970) and Carry On at Your Convenience
(1971). He is married to the American actress Elizabeth Quinn.
He is Chairman of the Catholic Association of Performing Arts (CaAPA) (formerly the Catholic Stage Guild).
English people
The English are a nation and ethnic group native to England, who speak English. The English identity is of early mediaeval origin, when they were known in Old English as the Anglecynn. England is now a country of the United Kingdom, and the majority of English people in England are British Citizens...
film, stage and television character actor
Character actor
A character actor is one who predominantly plays unusual or eccentric characters. The Oxford English Dictionary defines a character actor as "an actor who specializes in character parts", defining character part in turn as "an acting role displaying pronounced or unusual characteristics or...
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Born on 7 March 1940, he is the son of actors Patricia Hayes
Patricia Hayes
Patricia Lawlor Hayes, OBE was an English comedy actress.Hayes was born in Streatham, London. As a child Hayes attended Sacred Heart School in Wandsworth....
and Valentine Brooke whose stage name was Valentine Rooke. As a boy actor he was known as Richard Brooke. He has led a versatile career in film, stage and television in a wide range of roles. He took over the role of the clumsy but sympathetic romantic lead previously played by Jim Dale
Jim Dale
Jim Dale, MBE is an English actor, voice artist, singer and songwriter. He is best known in the United Kingdom for his many appearances in the Carry On series of films and in the US for narrating the Harry Potter audiobook series, for which he received two Grammy Awards, and the ABC series Pushing...
, in the Carry On films Carry On Loving
Carry On Loving
Carry On Loving is the twentieth Carry On film, and was released in 1970. It features series regulars Sid James, Kenneth Williams, Charles Hawtrey, Joan Sims, Hattie Jacques, Terry Scott and Bernard Bresslaw alongside newcomers Richard O'Callaghan and Jacki Piper . Carry On Loving featured...
(1970) and Carry On at Your Convenience
Carry On at Your Convenience
Carry On at Your Convenience, released in 1971, is the 22nd film of the Carry On series and was the first box office failure of the series. The failure has been attributed to the film's attempt at exploring the political themes of the trade union movement, crucially portraying the union activists...
(1971). He is married to the American actress Elizabeth Quinn.
He is Chairman of the Catholic Association of Performing Arts (CaAPA) (formerly the Catholic Stage Guild).
Film credits
- The Bofors GunThe Bofors GunThe Bofors Gun is a 1968 British drama film directed by Jack Gold and starring Nicol Williamson, Ian Holm and John Thaw. It was based on the play Events While Guarding The Bofors Gun by John McGrath. It portrays the British peacetime occupation of West Germany following the Second World War.-Cast:*...
(1968) ... Rowe - Carry On LovingCarry On LovingCarry On Loving is the twentieth Carry On film, and was released in 1970. It features series regulars Sid James, Kenneth Williams, Charles Hawtrey, Joan Sims, Hattie Jacques, Terry Scott and Bernard Bresslaw alongside newcomers Richard O'Callaghan and Jacki Piper . Carry On Loving featured...
(1970) ... Bertram Muffet - Carry On At Your ConvenienceCarry On at Your ConvenienceCarry On at Your Convenience, released in 1971, is the 22nd film of the Carry On series and was the first box office failure of the series. The failure has been attributed to the film's attempt at exploring the political themes of the trade union movement, crucially portraying the union activists...
(1971) ... Lewis Boggs ... aka Carry On Round the Bend - ButleyButley (film)Butley is a 1973 film directed by Harold Pinter, an adaptation from Simon Gray's 1971 play of same name. The film starred Alan Bates, Jessica Tandy, Richard O'Callaghan, Susan Engel, and Michael Byrne....
(1974) ... Joey Keyston - Galileo (1975) ... Fulganzio ... aka Galileo GalileiGalileo GalileiGalileo Galilei , was an Italian physicist, mathematician, astronomer, and philosopher who played a major role in the Scientific Revolution. His achievements include improvements to the telescope and consequent astronomical observations and support for Copernicanism...
- Watership DownWatership DownWatership Down is a classic heroic fantasy novel, written by English author Richard Adams, about a small group of rabbits. Although the animals in the story live in their natural environment, they are anthropomorphised, possessing their own culture, language , proverbs, poetry, and mythology...
(1978) (voice) ... Dandelion ... aka Richard Adams' Watership Down (UK: complete title) - Dangerous Beauty (1998) ... Zealot ... aka The Honest Courtesan (UK) (US: working title) ... A Destiny of Her Own (Australia)
Television credits
- Out of the Unknown ... Boy (1 episode, 1965)
- Z-CarsZ-CarsZ-Cars is a British television drama series centred on the work of mobile uniformed police in the fictional town of Newtown, based on Kirkby in the outskirts of Liverpool in Merseyside. Produced by the BBC, it debuted in January 1962 and ran until September 1978.-Origins:The series was developed by...
... Jim Blackitt (1 episode, 1965) - The Flower of Gloster (1967) TV series ... Richard Doherty
- "The Good and Faithful Servant" (1967)
- The Ronnie Barker Playhouse (1968) TV series ... Shelley Longfellow Morgan (1 episode 'Tennyson' (1968))
- Public Eye ... Frank (2 episodes, 1968–1969) - Mercury in an Off-White Mac (1968) - Divide and Conquer (1969)
- The Wednesday Play ... Fowler (1 episode, 1969) - The Last Train through Harecastle Tunnel (1969) (TV episode) ... Fowler
- Thirty-Minute Theatre (1 episode, 1970) - The Tidewatchers (1970) TV episode
- Vile Bodies (1970) (TV) ... Adam
- Professional FoulProfessional FoulProfessional Foul is a play written by Czech-born, British playwright Tom Stoppard. It was first published in 1977 and was filmed for BBC television and broadcast in September of the same year....
(1977) ... Chetwyn - Renoir, My Father (1978) (TV) ... Renoir
- Two's CompanyTwo's Company (TV series)Two's Company was a British television situation comedy series that ran from 1975-79. Produced by London Weekend Television for the ITV Network, the programme starred Elaine Stritch and Donald Sinden.-Premise:...
... Richard (1 episode, 1979) - The Silence (1979) ... Richard - The History of Tom Jones, a FoundlingThe History of Tom Jones, a FoundlingThe History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, often known simply as Tom Jones, is a comic novel by the English playwright and novelist Henry Fielding. First published on 28 February 1749, Tom Jones is among the earliest English prose works describable as a novel...
(1997) TV series ... Mr Fitzpatrick - Heartbeat ... Ringer Redknapp (1 episode, 2005) - Rustlers and Hustlers (2005) TV episode ... Ringer Redknapp
- Dalziel and PascoeDalziel and Pascoe (BBC TV series)Dalziel and Pascoe is a popular British television crime drama based on the Dalziel and Pascoe books by Reginald Hill, which was first broadcast in March 1996. It is set in Yorkshire, and is about two detectives...
- New Tricks
- Red Dwarf: Back to EarthRed Dwarf: Back to EarthRed Dwarf: Back to Earth is a three part TV miniseries continuation of the science fiction sitcom Red Dwarf, broadcast on the British television channel Dave between 10 April and 12 April 2009 and subsequently released on DVD on 15 June 2009 & on Blu-ray on 31 August 2009. It was the first...
Theatre credits
- Dirty Linen ... (1976; Almost Free Theatre)
- Brimstone and TreacleBrimstone and Treacle-Potter on Brimstone and Treacle:In 1978, Potter said:I had written Brimstone and Treacle in difficult personal circumstances. Years of acute psoriatic arthropathy—unpleasantly affecting skin and joints—had not only taken their toll in physical damage but had also, and perhaps inevitably, mediated...
(1979; Open Space Theatre) - The Happiest Days of Your LifeThe Happiest Days of Your LifeThe Happiest Days of Your Life is a 1950 British comedy film directed by Frank Launder, based on the play by John Dighton. The two men also wrote the screenplay. It's one of a stable of classic British film comedies produced by Frank Launder and Sidney Gilliat for British Lion Film Corporation. The...
... (1984) (Barbican Theatre, London) - The Magistrate ... (2000) (Royal Exchange, ManchesterRoyal Exchange, ManchesterThe Royal Exchange is a grade II listed Victorian building in Manchester, England. It is located in the city centre on the land bounded by St Ann’s Square, Exchange Street, Market Street, Cross Street and Old Bank Street...
) - Educating RitaEducating RitaEducating Rita is a stage comedy by British playwright Willy Russell. It is a play for two actors set entirely in the office of an Open University lecturer....
... (2002) (UK Tour) - 1605 ... (2005) (Chichester Festival TheatreChichester Festival TheatreChichester Festival Theatre, located in Chichester, England, was designed by Philip Powell and Hidalgo Moya, and opened by its founder Leslie Evershed-Martin in 1962. Subsequently the smaller and more intimate Minerva Theatre was built nearby in 1989....
) - King LearKing LearKing Lear is a tragedy by William Shakespeare. The title character descends into madness after foolishly disposing of his estate between two of his three daughters based on their flattery, bringing tragic consequences for all. The play is based on the legend of Leir of Britain, a mythological...
... (2005) ... Gloucester (Chichester Festival Theatre) - Titus AndronicusTitus AndronicusTitus Andronicus is a tragedy by William Shakespeare, and possibly George Peele, believed to have been written between 1588 and 1593. It is thought to be Shakespeare's first tragedy, and is often seen as his attempt to emulate the violent and bloody revenge plays of his contemporaries, which were...
... (2006) ... Marcus Andronicus (Shakespeare's Globe) - The Last ConfessionThe Last ConfessionThe Last Confession is a stage play by Roger Crane based around the election and death of Pope John Paul I. The play follows Giovanni Benelli who recounts, during his last confession, his role in the death of John Paul and how this led him to lose his faith.-Plot:Disturbed by the corruption in...
(2007) ... (Chichester Festival Theatre/ Theatre Royal, Haymarket) - Twelfth Night ... (2008) Malvolio (Open Air Theatre, Regent's ParkOpen Air Theatre, Regent's ParkRegent's Park Open Air Theatre, in the City of Westminster, London, is a permanent venue with an annual sixteen-week summer season. It was founded in 1932 by Sydney Carroll and Robert Atkins.-The theatre:...
) - The Story of Vasco ...(2009) Caesar (Orange Tree TheatreOrange Tree TheatreThe Orange Tree Theatre is a 172-seat theatre at 1 Clarence Street, Richmond in south west London, built specifically as a theatre in the round....
) - Haunting JuliaHaunting JuliaHaunting Julia is a 1994 play by British playwright Alan Ayckbourn. It is about Julia Lukin, a nineteen-year-old brilliant musician who committed suicide twelve years earlier, who haunts the three men closest to her, through both the supernatural and in their memories...
... (2011) Joe Lukin (Riverside StudiosRiverside StudiosRiverside Studios is a production studio, theatre and independent cinema on the banks of the River Thames in Hammersmith, London, England. It plays host to contemporary and international dramatic and dance performance, film, visual art exhibitions and television production.-History:In 1933, the...
, Hammersmith)
Radio credits
- The Lord of the RingsThe Lord of the Rings (1981 radio series)In 1981 the UK radio station BBC Radio 4 broadcast a dramatisation of J. R. R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings in 26 half-hour stereo instalments...
(1981) ... Meriadoc BrandybuckMeriadoc BrandybuckMeriadoc Brandybuck, usually referred to as Merry, is a fictional character from J. R. R. Tolkien's Middle-earth legendarium, featured throughout his most famous work, The Lord of the Rings.... - Murder Must AdvertiseMurder Must AdvertiseMurder Must Advertise is a Lord Peter Wimsey mystery novel by Dorothy L. Sayers, published in 1933.Most of the action takes place in an advertising agency, a setting with which Sayers was very familiar. One of her advertising colleagues, Bobby Bevan, was the inspiration for the character Mr Ingleby...
(1979 BBC Radio) ... Mr Willis - Have His CarcaseHave His CarcaseHave His Carcase is a 1932 novel by Dorothy L. Sayers, her seventh featuring Lord Peter Wimsey and her second novel in which Harriet Vane appears...
(1981 BBC Radio) ... Julian Perkins
Television Roles
| Year | Title | Role |
|---|---|---|
| 1973 | Seven of One Seven of One Seven of One was a British comedy series that aired on BBC2 in 1973. Starring Ronnie Barker, 7 of One is a series of seven separate comedies that would serve as possible pilots for sitcoms. Originally it was to be called Six of One, which Barker planned to follow up with another series called Half... |
Mortlake Owen |
| 1975 to 1979 | Two's Company Two's Company (TV series) Two's Company was a British television situation comedy series that ran from 1975-79. Produced by London Weekend Television for the ITV Network, the programme starred Elaine Stritch and Donald Sinden.-Premise:... |
Richard |