Mick Lally

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Mick Lally

Mick Lally (born November 1945 in Tourmakeady , County Mayo , † August 31, 2010 ) was an Irish actor .

Life

Lally grew up on a farm in the Partry Mountains of western Ireland. He had six younger siblings, five sisters and one brother. Lally attended school in his birthplace and then moved to St Mary's College in Galway , a boys' school, and at the same time the Diocesan College of the Diocese of Galway (Galway Diocesan College) . He studied history and Irish philology at the National University of Ireland, Galway . After graduating, he worked from 1969 to 1975 as a history and Irish language teacher in Tuam .

In 1975 Lally was invited to the Bar The Cellar in Galway by actress Marie Mullen and later theater director Garry Hynes , who both met while studying acting at the National University of Ireland's Drama Society , Galway , for a production of the play The Hero of the Western Addressed the world in which Lally would play the role of Christy Mahon . Together with Mullen and Hynes, Lally then founded the Druid Theater Company . In the following years Lally played there, among others, in The Glass Menagerie and Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? . In 1985 he took over the role of old Mahon in The Playboy of the Western World . He also starred for the Druid Theater Company in Waiting for Godot , Whistle in the Dark by Thomas Murphy , Fast a Poet by Eugene O'Neill, and as Larry Taggart in the critically acclaimed production of Wild Harvest by Ken Bourke .

In 1980 he starred in Derry in the world premiere of the play Speech Disturbances (Translations) by Brian Friel ; Lally was a member of the Field Day Theater Company founded by Brian Friel and Stephen Rea at the time .

As a stage actor, Lally often appeared in roles of the Irish playwright John B. Keane . At the Gaiety Theater in Dublin , Lally has starred in Keane's plays Moll , The Man from Clare and The Year of the Hiker, among others . At the SFX City Center Theater in Dublin he played the role of Mick Dicky O'Connor in Keane's drama The Matchmaker from 2001 to 2008 . At SFX Center Theater, he also played in the play Studs of Paul Mercier . Since the late 1970s he has also appeared regularly at the Abbey Theater in Dublin. He worked there in the plays Iwanow (1978, as Gavrila), A Midsummer Night's Dream (1979, as Snug), And the light appears in the darkness (English title: The Power of Darkness ) by Leo Tolstoy (1991), drama at Inish by Lennox Robinson (1992), A Crucial Week in the Life of a Grocer's Assistant by Tom Murphy (1992), The Honey Spike by Bryan MacMahon (1993) and The Last Days of a Reluctant Tyrant by Tom Murphy (2009) . At the Peacock Theater in Dublin, he was in the play 1992 The Winter Thief of Sean MacMathuna to see.

Lally also starred in movies and on television . He achieved particular fame with the role of Miley Byrne in the Irish soap opera Glenroe . With his impersonation he took up a film character again, which he had played in the 1978 television series Bracken . With the song The By-road to Glenroe from the television series, which Lally interpreted, he even made it to number one on the Irish singles charts in April / May 1990 . In 2004 he had a small role alongside Colin Farrell as a horse dealer in Oliver Stone's monumental film Alexander . In 2009 he took over the speaking role of Brother Aidan in the animated film . Lally, who was fluent in Irish , also appeared in a number of Irish language films ( Poitín , 1978) and the Irish language soap opera Ros na Rún (2008).

Lally was married and had three children. He died in a hospital on August 31, 2010 after a brief illness.

Filmography (selection)

  • 1978: Bracken (TV series)
  • 1978: Poitín
  • 1982: The Ballroom of Romance
  • 1982: The Outcasts
  • 1983: Street of Fear (Angel)
  • 1983–2001: Glenroe (TV series)
  • 1986: The Fantasist
  • 1990: The Fools of Fortune
  • 1994: A Man of No Importance
  • 1994: Scarlett (TV series)
  • 1995: Circle of Friends - In the circle of friends (Circle of Friends)
  • 2004: Alexander
  • 2004: The Halo Effect
  • 2006: Middletown
  • 2008: Ros na Rún (TV series)
  • 2009: Brendan and The Secret of Kells

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Taking the Mick ( Memento of the original from July 22, 2011 in the web archive archive.today ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Irish Farmers Journal ; March 21, 2009 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.farmersjournal.ie
  2. ↑ Actor Mick Lally dies aged 64 RTÉ News ; August 31, 2010
  3. ↑ What's On John B. Keane's The Matchmaker ( Memento of the original from August 5, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Production details + biography of Mick Lally @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.tivoli.ie
  4. ↑ The Matchmaker ( Memento of the original from October 5, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. SFX City Center Theater @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.sfx.ie
  5. ^ Mick Lally Abbey Career
  6. ↑ The Winter Thief / adaí Gear na Geamh Oíche-Gadai Gear na Geamh-Oiche 1992 (Peacock)
  7. ^ Parting from Miley and looking at life after Glenroe Irish Times , May 5, 2001
  8. ^ Funeral of Mick Lally in Dublin Irish Times , September 2, 2010
personal data
SURNAME Lally, Mick
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Lally, Michael; Ó Maolallaí, Micheál
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Irish actor
DATE OF BIRTH November 1945
PLACE OF BIRTH Tourmakeady , County Mayo
DATE OF DEATH August 31, 2010