Patrick Drury
Acting
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.
As actor 28
Midsomer Murders
1997
The Crown
2016
Ripper Street
2012
Inspector Morse
1987
Rumpole of the Bailey
1975
Soldier Soldier
1991
The Ruth Rendell Mysteries
1987
Father Ted
1995
I, Claudius
1976
Shine on Harvey Moon
1982
Screen One
1989
In Suspicious Circumstances
1991
Murder in Suburbia
2004
Moon and Son
1992
The Awakening
1980
The Beiderbecke Connection
1988
Florence Nightingale
1985
RSC Live: Timon of Athens
2019
A Breed of Heroes
1994
Up Line
1987
Lennon Naked
2010
The Men's Room
1991
Queen Marie of Romania
2019
Shoot to Kill
1990
Coriolanus
1997
Laughterhouse
1984
RSC Live: Antony & Cleopatra
2017
RSC Live: Titus Andronicus
2017
