Patrick Drury

Acting · Camera

Born August 19, 1945, London, England, UK

Patrick Drury is a character actor best known for playing shopkeeper John O'Leary in the Channel 4 television comedy Father Ted. His film credits include the horror movie The Awakening (1980) starring Charlton Heston, and the 1984 comedy Laughterhouse (also known as Singleton's Pluck) with Ian Holm. He was previously married to actress Caroline Langrishe.

Filmography

• 2022Adnan Syed: Overturned — Director of Photography
• 2019Queen Marie of Romania — Woodrow Wilson
• 2019RSC Live: Timon of Athens — Flavius
• 2017RSC Live: Antony & Cleopatra — Lepidus
• 2017RSC Live: Titus Andronicus — Marcus Andronicus
• The Crown — Lord Chamberlain
• Ripper Street — Col. Sir Edward Bradford
• 2010Lennon Naked — Apple Accountant
• Murder in Suburbia — Kieran Doyle
• 1997Coriolanus — Comminius
• Midsomer Murders — Robin Wooliscroft, Connor Simpson
• Father Ted — John O'Leary
• 1994A Breed of Heroes — Maj. Anthony Hamilton-Smith
• Moon and Son — Inspector Sardou
• In Suspicious Circumstances — Jack Derham
• Soldier Soldier — Lt Col Mark Osbourne
• The Men's Room — James Walton
• 1990Shoot to Kill — Detective Inspector
• Screen One — Maj. Anthony Hamilton-Smith
• The Beiderbecke Connection — Ivan
• Inspector Morse — Frank McTeer
• The Ruth Rendell Mysteries — Chief Supt. Howard Fortune
• 1987Up Line — Brian O'Brien
• 1985Florence Nightingale — Henry Nicholson
• 1984Laughterhouse — David Wolmer
• Shine on Harvey Moon — Adrian Horowitz
• 1980The Awakening — Paul Whittier
• I, Claudius — Courier
• Rumpole of the Bailey — Desmond Casterini