Ronan O'Casey (18 August 1922 â€" 12 April 2012) was a Canadian actor
and producer.O'Casey was born in Montreal, Quebec, to poet father,
Michael Casey, and actress mother, Margaret Sheehy, a Dubliner who had
co-starred with the young James Joyce in his first stage role. At the
age of eight Ronan O'Casey began acting in his mother's Montreal
theatre company and, after tours in theatre and vaudeville, he moved
to Dublin and then to London.O'Casey was at one time a leading ice
hockey player in his native Montreal, skills which he was able to put
to use during the filming of children's adventure serial The New
Forest Rustlers, in which he played the leader of a gang planning to
steal a priceless Rembrandt.O'Casey found early success in post-war
films such as The Mudlark (1950), Talk of a Million (1951) and Norman
Wisdom's Trouble in Store (1953), going on to play the prisoner of
Room 101 in 1984 and the sergeant in Nicholas Ray's war film Bitter
Victory (1957). While starring in the West End play Detective Story he
met actress and singer Louie Ramsay, whom he married in 1956.
and producer.O'Casey was born in Montreal, Quebec, to poet father,
Michael Casey, and actress mother, Margaret Sheehy, a Dubliner who had
co-starred with the young James Joyce in his first stage role. At the
age of eight Ronan O'Casey began acting in his mother's Montreal
theatre company and, after tours in theatre and vaudeville, he moved
to Dublin and then to London.O'Casey was at one time a leading ice
hockey player in his native Montreal, skills which he was able to put
to use during the filming of children's adventure serial The New
Forest Rustlers, in which he played the leader of a gang planning to
steal a priceless Rembrandt.O'Casey found early success in post-war
films such as The Mudlark (1950), Talk of a Million (1951) and Norman
Wisdom's Trouble in Store (1953), going on to play the prisoner of
Room 101 in 1984 and the sergeant in Nicholas Ray's war film Bitter
Victory (1957). While starring in the West End play Detective Story he
met actress and singer Louie Ramsay, whom he married in 1956.
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