Daragh O'Malley
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| Occupation | Actor |
Daragh O'Malley (b. 25 May 1954) was born in Dublin, Ireland, and has appeared in many theatre productions and over 100 film and television series.
He is best known as the actor who plays the ever faithful but fearsome Patrick Harper in the hugely popular Sharpe TV series with Sean Bean, and in the UK Cult film, Withnail and I.
Raised in Limerick, a city in south-west Ireland,the 6'3" O'Malley went on to study drama at London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art. One of his fellow students was Amy Irving.
O'Malley was cast as Debra Winger's husband in the ill fated Irish feature Divine Rapture which starred Marlon Brando, Winger, O'Malley, John Hurt and Johnny Depp but the project amazingly collapsed after four weeks filming when the Los Angeles production company Orion suddenly went bust. O'Malley remained a close friend of Brando's following the Divine Rapture debacle until the screen legend died.
O'Malley's father, Donagh O'Malley, was a very significant Irish politician who served as his country's Minister for Education in the 1960's, introducing a Free Secondary and Third Level education system in Ireland which is credited with the recent massive upsurge in the Irish economy.
O'Malley's mother, Hilda, a doctor from Dingle Co. Kerry, was the subject of Patrick Kavanagh's extraordinary love poem "On Raglan Road".
In Los Angeles he won a Drama Logue Best Actor Award for his 1998 performance as "Sweeney" in Patrick Marber's Dealers Choice Mark Taper Forum O'Malley lives in London, UK.
O'Malley is a close relation of the English recording artist Dido.
Filmography
- Crossroads (1974-77) ATV
- Red Shift (1978) BBC
- The Long Good Friday(1980) Handmade
- Blue Money (1982)
- Tales of the Unexpected (1983)
- Cal (1984)
- The Last Place on Earth(1985)BBC
- Truckers (1987) TV Series 8 Episodes
- Withnail and I (1987) Handmade
- Act of Betrayal (1988)
- A Day in Summer (1989)
- Connemara (1990)
- Shoot to Kill (1990)
- Sharpe's Rifles (1993)
- Sharpe's Eagle (1993)
- Sharpe's Honour (1994)
- Sharpe's Enemy (1994)
- Sharpe's Company (1994)
- Texas (1994) US Mini Series
- Sharpe's Sword (1995)
- Sharpe's Battle (1995)
- Sharpe's Gold (1995)
- Shaughnessy (1996)
- Sharpe's Mission (1996)
- Sharpe's Siege (1996)
- Sharpe's Regiment (1996)
- Sharpe's Justice (1997)
- Sharpe's Revenge (1997)
- Sharpe's Waterloo (1997)
- Sharpe: The Legend (1997)
- Grim Fandango (1998)
- The Magnificent Seven (1998) CBS TV Series
- Cleopatra (1999) Hallmark Mini Series
- Vendetta (1999) HBO Feature
- Longitude (2000) TV Series
- McCready and Daughter(2000)
- Rebel Heart (2001) TV Series
- On Home Ground (2001) 16 One Hour Episode
- The Bombmaker (2001) Sky Movies
- Puckoon (2002) Feature
- Doctors (2003) One Episode.
- In Deep (2003) TV Series
- Silent Witness (2004) Two Episodes
- Wire in the Blood (2005) Two Episodes
- Sharpe's Challenge(2006) ITV 2 x 90min Films.
- Waking The Dead (2007) Two Episodes
- Richard The Lionheart (2008) BBC Drama
- Sharpe's Peril (2008) ITV 2 x 90min Films
- The Royal (2008) ITV Series
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