Patrick Drury
Biography
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.
Known For
Midsomer Murders
Midsomer Murders
The Crown
Inspector Morse
Ripper Street
Soldier Soldier
Screen One
The Ruth Rendell Mysteries
All Movies (12)
- RSC Live: Timon of Athens2019 · as Flavius
- Queen Marie of Romania2019 · as Woodrow Wilson
- RSC Live: Titus Andronicus2017 · as Marcus Andronicus
- RSC Live: Antony & Cleopatra2017 · as Lepidus
- Lennon Naked2010 · as Apple Accountant
- Coriolanus1997 · as Comminius
- A Breed of Heroes1994 · as Maj. Anthony Hamilton-Smith
- Shoot to Kill1990 · as Detective Inspector
- Up Line1987 · as Brian O'Brien
- Florence Nightingale1985 · as Henry Nicholson
- Laughterhouse1984 · as David Wolmer
- The Awakening1980 · as Paul Whittier
All TV Shows (15)
- The Crown2016 · as Lord Chamberlain
- Ripper Street2012 · as Col. Sir Edward Bradford
- Murder in Suburbia2004 · as Kieran Doyle
- Midsomer Murders1997 · as Robin Wooliscroft
- Midsomer Murders1997 · as Connor Simpson
- Father Ted1995 · as John O'Leary
- Moon and Son1992 · as Inspector Sardou
- Soldier Soldier1991 · as Lt Col Mark Osbourne
- In Suspicious Circumstances1991 · as Jack Derham
- Screen One1989 · as Maj. Anthony Hamilton-Smith
- The Beiderbecke Connection1988 · as Ivan
- The Ruth Rendell Mysteries1987 · as Chief Supt. Howard Fortune
- Inspector Morse1987 · as Frank McTeer
- Shine on Harvey Moon1982 · as Adrian Horowitz
- I, Claudius1976 · as Courier