Actor
Patrick Drury
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 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.
Notable work
Often works with
Olivia Colman
2 titles together
The Crown, Murder in Suburbia
Imelda Staunton
2 titles together
The Crown, The Ruth Rendell Mysteries
Laura Howard
2 titles together
Midsomer Murders, Soldier Soldier
Daniel Casey
2 titles together
Midsomer Murders, Murder in Suburbia
Jerome Flynn
2 titles together
Ripper Street, Soldier Soldier
Brian Cox
2 titles together
Inspector Morse, Florence Nightingale
Full filmography · 28
The Crown
as Lord Chamberlain
20168.2
Ripper Street
as Col. Sir Edward Bradford
20127.4
Murder in Suburbia
as Kieran Doyle
2004
Midsomer Murders
as Robin Wooliscroft and as Connor Simpson
19977.5
Father Ted
as John O'Leary
19958.2
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
Screen One
as Maj. Anthony Hamilton-Smith
1989
The Beiderbecke Connection
as Ivan
1988
The Ruth Rendell Mysteries
as Chief Supt. Howard Fortune
1987