Donal McCann

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Donal McCann (born May 7, 1943 in Terenure , County Dublin , † July 17, 1999 in Dublin ) was an Irish theater and film actor .

life and career

Donal McCann's father was John McCann , a playwright and politician who twice served as Lord Mayor of Dublin. Although McCann played in his father's play Give Me a Bed of Roses , he first studied architecture in 1962. He then worked as an associate editor of the Evening Press, which gave him the opportunity to take acting classes at the Abbey School of Acting . He joined the Abbey Players in the late 1960s . Among his first major roles was in 1969 a production of Samuel Beckett's play Waiting for Godot (Waiting for Godot) with Peter O'Toole .

McCann began his film career in 1966 with a supporting role in the Disney film The Fighting Prince of Donegal . He worked frequently with the Irish film director Neil Jordan . McCann's best-known film role was that of Gabriel Conroy in by John Huston staged James Joyce film version The Dead (The Dead) in 1987 with Anjelica Huston . He played important roles in his later work in Bernardo Bertolucci's Stealing Beauty in 1996 and in John Turturro's Illuminata , which was not completed until 1999 after McCann's death. In his penultimate film The Nephew (The Nephew) he starred with Pierce Brosnan impressive as the reclusive farmer Tony Egan.

McCann was a calm and humble man in his private life. He struggled with depression and alcoholism throughout his life. The horse racing lover, who had numerous friends in Irish actors and artists, died of pancreatic cancer in 1999 at the age of 56.

Filmography (selection)

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Obituary for Donal McCann in The Guardian
personal data
SURNAME McCann, Donal
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Irish actor
DATE OF BIRTH May 7, 1943
PLACE OF BIRTH Terenure , County Dublin
DATE OF DEATH July 17, 1999
Place of death Dublin