Joseph O'Conor (14 February 1910 â€" 21 January 2001) was an Irish
actor and playwright.O'Conor was born in Dublin on 14 February 1910,
the son of Frances (née Call) and Daniel O'Conor. His family moved to
London, where he attended the Cardinal Vaughan Memorial School, the
University of London and RADA. He made his professional stage debut in
1939 playing Flavius, Trebonius, and Titinius in a modern-dress
production of Julius Caesar at the Embassy Theatre, and subsequently
at His Majesty's Theatre. Also in 1939 he married Naita Moore; they
had two children.Returning to the stage in 1946, he played a wide
variety of roles in London, but with an emphasis on Shakespeare. He
spent a season under Donald Wolfit at the Bedford, Camden Town,
alternating Iago and Othello with him in Othello (1949) and taking the
title role in Hamlet (1949), with Wolfit as the Gravedigger.
actor and playwright.O'Conor was born in Dublin on 14 February 1910,
the son of Frances (née Call) and Daniel O'Conor. His family moved to
London, where he attended the Cardinal Vaughan Memorial School, the
University of London and RADA. He made his professional stage debut in
1939 playing Flavius, Trebonius, and Titinius in a modern-dress
production of Julius Caesar at the Embassy Theatre, and subsequently
at His Majesty's Theatre. Also in 1939 he married Naita Moore; they
had two children.Returning to the stage in 1946, he played a wide
variety of roles in London, but with an emphasis on Shakespeare. He
spent a season under Donald Wolfit at the Bedford, Camden Town,
alternating Iago and Othello with him in Othello (1949) and taking the
title role in Hamlet (1949), with Wolfit as the Gravedigger.
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