Dermot Kelly (actor)

Dermot Kelly
Born	(1918-05-15)15 May 1918 Enniskillen, County Fermanagh, Northern Ireland
Died	18 February 1980(1980-02-18) (aged 61) Dublin, Ireland
Occupation	Actor

Dermot Kelly (15 May 1918 – 18 February 1980) was a Northern Irish actor often in comic roles, in films and on TV.^[1][2] He achieved popularity as a recurring tramp character, sidekick to Arthur Haynes's vagrant, in TV's The Arthur Haynes Show in the early 1960s.^[3][4] Previously on stage with Dublin's Abbey Theatre,^[5] he was in the original stage and film versions of Brendan Behan's The Quare Fellow, in 1954 and 1962, respectively.^[6][7]

Filmography

• Another Shore (1948) as Boxer
• Home is the Hero (1959) as 2nd Pub Customer
• Sally's Irish Rogue (1959) as McKeefry
• Broth of a Boy (1959) as Tim
• Breakout as O'Quinn
• Devil's Bait (1959) as Mr. Love
• Cover Girl Killer (1959) as Pop
• Crooks Anonymous (1962) as Stanley
• The Quare Fellow (1962) as Donnelly
• The Wrong Arm of the Law (1963) as Misery Martin
• Panic (1963) as Murphy
• The Yellow Rolls-Royce (1965) as Marquess of Frinton's Jockey (uncredited)
• Cup Fever (1965) as Bodger the Bootmender
• The Plank (1967) as Milkman
• Mrs. Brown, You've Got a Lovely Daughter (1968) as Con Man
• Headline Hunters (1968) as Ernie
• Subterfuge (1968) as Van Driver
• Staircase (1969) as Gravedigger

References

1. "Dermot Kelly". BFI. Archived from the original on 9 February 2019.
2. "Dermot Kelly | Movies and Filmography". AllMovie.
3. "Arthur Haynes". 20 July 2018.
4. "BFI Screenonline: Speight, Johnny (1920-1998) Biography". www.screenonline.org.uk.
5. "Drama at Inish - Is Life Worth Living? 1940 (Abbey) | Abbey Archives | Abbey Theatre - Amharclann na Mainistreach". Abbey Theatre.
6. "The Quare Fellow - PlayographyIreland". Retrieved 12 April 2024.
7. "The Quare Fellow (1962)". BFI. Archived from the original on 29 September 2019.

External links

• Dermot Kelly at IMDb