TP McKenna

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Thomas Patrick McKenna (born September 7, 1929 in Mullagh , County Cavan , Ireland , † February 13, 2011 in London ) was an Irish actor.

Life

TP McKenna, of a major during his career, stage actor , was his debut as a stage actor in 1954 at the Pike Theater in Dublin in the play Summer and Smoke by Tennessee Williams . Since the late 1950s McKenna worked as a film actor for the cinema and for television.

McKenna's first film roles - his name was not mentioned in the credits - included a small role in the 1960s film drama Rising at Dawn , directed by Tay Garnett, which was set during World War II . In the following years, McKenna was often occupied in literary adaptations or in films with a literary theme. He starred in The Quare Fellow in 1962 , a film adaptation of the play of the same name by Brendan Behan , in 1965 in Cassidy the Rebel , a film adaptation of the autobiography Mirror in My House by the Irish writer Seán O'Casey , and in 1967 the role of Buck Mulligan in Joseph Stricks Adaptation of the novel Ulysses . He had minor roles in 1968, directed by Tony Richardson in the adventure film The Attack of the Light Brigade and in 1969 as Sir Henry Norris in the historical drama Queen for a Thousand Days .

In 1971 he played with Dustin Hoffman in Sam Peckinpah's thriller Who Sows Violence . In 1977 he starred in the leading role of Stephen Dedalus at the side of John Gielgud in the literary film adaptation of the novel A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce . One of his most sustained roles was that of SS-Standartenführer Paul Blobel in the multi-part Holocaust from 1978. Five years later (1983) McKenna even played Reichsführer SS Heinrich Himmler in Im Wendekreis des Kreuzes .

In the 1980s, McKenna also played numerous cinema roles in films of various genres, for example in 1988 with Ben Kingsley in the historical film The Forgotten Island or in 1989 with Dolph Lundgren in the action film Red Scorpion . In the literary film Valmont , based on the novel Dangerous Liaisons , he took on the role of a distinguished baron in 1989/1990 under the direction of Miloš Forman .

McKenna played repeatedly in films with an Irish background, for example in the 1980 drama Treason in Belfast . In Ireland McKenna is particularly considered to be an intense character actor for the roles and characters of James Joyce.

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personal data
SURNAME McKenna, TP
ALTERNATIVE NAMES McKenna, Thomas Patrick (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Irish actor
DATE OF BIRTH September 7, 1929
PLACE OF BIRTH Mullagh , County Cavan , Ireland
DATE OF DEATH February 13, 2011
Place of death London