Actor. He is best remembered for his portrayal of the headstrong Roy Shaw in "Safari" (1956). Born into a traditional working-class family, one of four children of a cabinet maker and a housewife, after completing his education at the Christian Brothers School, he went on to attain his degree in theatrical arts from the University College of Dublin. After two decades of stage work between London, England, and New York City, New York, he was introduced to director Frank Launder during a dinner party at the home of actor Trevor Howard. Impressed by his distinctive voice, professionalism, and mature appearance, he arranged for him to begin a career in the film industry beginning with him being under his supervision per a supporting role in "I See a Dark Stranger" (1946). From there, he would go on to become a prominent character actor between three continents appearing in over 90 features; often typecast as husbands, fathers, white-collared workers, clergymen, landlords, neighbors, curmudgeons, eccentrics, salesmen, authority figures, and patriarchs. He appeared in such feature films as "Captain Boycott" (1947), "Daughter of Darkness" (1948), "Saints and Sinners" (1949), "The Twenty Questions Murder Mystery" (1950), "High Treason" (1951), "The Cruel Sea" (1953), "Happily Ever After" (1954), "The Glass Cage" (1955), "23 Paces to Baker Street" (1956), "The Long Haul" (1957), "Rooney" (1958), "No Trees in the Street" (1959), "Scent of Mystery" (1960), "The Valiant" (1962), "Playboy of the Western World" (1963), "The Ghost and Mr. Chicken" (1966), "Till Death Do Us Part" (1968), and "Betty Lyndon" (1975). During the advent of television, he became a household name appearing in various guest spots on such syndicated sitcoms as "The DuPont Show of the Month," "Shirley Temple's Storybook," "Hong Kong," "Gunsmoke," "Going My Way," "Kraft Mystery Theatre," "Wagon Train," "Z Cars," "It's Dark Outside," "Swizzlewick," "Daniel Boone," "The Saint," "Festival," "The Avengers," "Fraud Squad," "You're Only Young Twice," "The Frighteners," "Tales from the Lazy Acre," "2nd House," and "Armchair Theatre". During his career, he held dual citizenship with the United States and Ireland, was a member of the Screen Actors Guild, was supportive of the Motion Picture and Television Fund, had been one of the original founders the WAAMA, had presided as chairman for his local charters of the Red Cross and St. Jude's Children's Research Hospital, had been a theatrical instructor for the Pasadena Playhouse, was an honorary chairman for the Abbey Theatre, had been an active parishioner of the Catholic church, was a politically active Democrat, and he was married to mild mannered secretary Barbara MacDonagh from 1936 until her death in 1987 (their union produced four children). Upon his 1975 retirement, he spent the final years of his life dividing time between his homes in Ireland and New York and was focused on several religious and charitable causes until his death from undisclosed causes.