Patrick Drury

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Patrick Drury

Acting 81 August 19, 1945

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 Awak…

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The Crown

The Crown

8.2 2016 TV Show
Midsomer Murders

Midsomer Murders

7.5 1997 TV Show
Father Ted

Father Ted

8.2 1995 TV Show
Ripper Street

Ripper Street

7.4 2012 TV Show
Inspector Morse

Inspector Morse

7.9 1987 TV Show
I, Claudius

I, Claudius

7.8 1976 TV Show
Rumpole of the Bailey

Rumpole of the Bailey

7.1 1975 TV Show
Soldier Soldier

Soldier Soldier

6.9 1991 TV Show
The Ruth Rendell Mysteries

The Ruth Rendell Mysteries

6.6 1987 TV Show
The Awakening

The Awakening

5.4 1980 Movie
Screen One

Screen One

7.2 1989 TV Show
Shine on Harvey Moon

Shine on Harvey Moon

7.7 1982 TV Show

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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.

Filmography

Movies and shows, newest first

  1. 2022
    Adnan Syed: Overturned

    Movie Director of Photography

  2. 2019
    RSC Live: Timon of Athens

    Movie Flavius

  3. 2019
    Queen Marie of Romania

    Movie Woodrow Wilson

  4. 2017
    RSC Live: Titus Andronicus

    Movie Marcus Andronicus

  5. 2017
    RSC Live: Antony & Cleopatra

    Movie Lepidus

  6. 2016
    The Crown

    TV show Lord Chamberlain

  7. 2012
    Ripper Street

    TV show Col. Sir Edward Bradford

  8. 2010
    Lennon Naked

    Movie Apple Accountant

  9. 2004
    Murder in Suburbia

    TV show Kieran Doyle

  10. 1997
    Midsomer Murders

    TV show Robin Wooliscroft

  11. 1997
    Coriolanus

    Movie Comminius

  12. 1995
    Father Ted

    TV show John O'Leary

  13. 1994
    A Breed of Heroes

    Movie Maj. Anthony Hamilton-Smith

  14. 1992
    Moon and Son

    TV show Inspector Sardou

  15. 1991
    The Men's Room

    TV show James Walton

  16. 1991
    Soldier Soldier

    TV show Lt Col Mark Osbourne

More credits
  1. 1991
    In Suspicious Circumstances

    TV show Jack Derham

  2. 1990
    Shoot to Kill

    Movie Detective Inspector

  3. 1989
    Screen One

    TV show Maj. Anthony Hamilton-Smith

  4. 1988
    The Beiderbecke Connection

    TV show Ivan

  5. 1987
    The Ruth Rendell Mysteries

    TV show Chief Supt. Howard Fortune

  6. 1987
    Up Line

    Movie Brian O'Brien

  7. 1987
    Inspector Morse

    TV show Frank McTeer

  8. 1985
    Florence Nightingale

    Movie Henry Nicholson

  9. 1984
    Laughterhouse

    Movie David Wolmer

  10. 1982
    Shine on Harvey Moon

    TV show Adrian Horowitz

  11. 1980
    The Awakening

    Movie Paul Whittier

  12. 1976
    I, Claudius

    TV show Courier

  13. 1975
    Rumpole of the Bailey

    TV show Desmond Casterini