Dan O'Herlihy

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Daniel O'Herlihy
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Biography

An architecture student who turned to acting to earn money for college--He appeared in more than 70 plays on the Dublin stage and played the lead in the original production of Sean O'Casey's "Red Roses for Me"--O'Herlihy wound up working with notables including Orson Welles, Gregory Peck and John Huston after being discovered by British director Carol Reed and cast opposite James Mason in the 1947 thriller "Odd Man Out." O'Herlihy joined Orson …
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Job Title

Actor

Born

May 1, 1919

LATEST CREDITS

The Travels of Jaimie McPheeters

Doc Sardius McPheeters; Jaimie's father

The Cabinet of Caligari

Paul/Caligari

A Waltz Through the Hills

Tom Caseley

Adventures of Robinson Crusoe

Robinson Crusoe

The Long Hot Summer

Will Varner

Home Before Dark

Arnold Bronn

Death Ray 2000

The Director

Fail Safe

General Buck

One Foot in Hell

Harry Ivers

A Terrible Beauty

Don McGinness

Jennie: Lady Randolph Churchill

Mr Jerome

The Last Starfighter

Grig

Invasion U.S.A.

Actor

Nancy Astor

Chiswell Langhorne

A Man Called Sloane

Mr Director

Halloween III: Season of the Witch

Conal Cochran

The Big Cube

Charles Winthrop

The Purple Mask

Brisquet

The People

Sol Diemus

The Young Land

Judge Isham

Woman on the Run

Crandell

Imitation of Life

David Edwards

The Tamarind Seed

Fergus Stephenson

Good Against Evil

Father Kemschler

Love, Cheat & Steal

Hamilton Fisk