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Milo O'Shea (born 1926) is a short and sturdy Irish-born actor with bushy black eyebrows, sparkling eyes and appealing grin, whose long and successful acting career has extended over eight decades.
He began as a boy actor in his native Dublin playing Ptolemy in Caesar and Cleopatra and the lead role in Oliver Twist. He continued his career at the Gate Theatre. At 19, he joined Dublin's Abbey Players, where he remained for well over two decades, although, during this period, he often performed elsewhere. In 1949, he made his London debut at the Apollo Theatre in Treasure Hunt that starred Sybil Thorndike and was directed by John Gielgud. Other West End appearances included Synge’s The Heart's a Wonder (1958) at the Westminster and the musical Once Upon a Mattress (1960).
On British television, his most memorable appearances were in Harold Pinter’s Night School (1960) and in the comedy series Me Mammy (1968), written by his friend, Hugh Leonard.
Shortly after this, he made his Broadway debut in Staircase (1968), which earned him his first nomination for a Tony Award. His second nomination was for his performance as the glad-handing priest in the original production of Mass Appeal (1981), for which he won a Drama the Outer Critics' Circle awards. His highly successful Broadway career included performances in Dear World (1969), Comedians (1976), A Touch of Poet (1978), a revival of My Fair Lady (1981), and Meet Me in St. Louis (1990).
His numerous films include Leopold Bloom in Ulysses (1967), Durand-Durand in Barbarella (1968), Friar Lawrence in Romeo and Juliet (1968), the scene-stealing Judge Hoyle in The Verdict (1981), and Father Donnelly in the film within a film in Woody Allen's The Purple Rose of Cairo (1985).
Although he has appeared occasionally on the London stage, he has, since the early 1970s, lived and worked almost exclusively in America. His TV roles in the US include Dr. Stanislaus Lotaki in the mini-series QB VII (1973) and the eccentric cartoonist Abner Bevis in the satire Once a Hero (1987).
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