T. P. McKenna Family, Real Name, Spouse, Profession, Eye Color, body stats, Feet Size, Wiki

T. P. McKenna Family, Real Name, Spouse, Profession, Eye Color, body stats, Feet Size, Wiki

Thomas Patrick McKenna (7 September 1929 â€" 13 February 2011) was an

Irish actor, born in Mullagh, County Cavan. He had an extensive stage

and screen career.Thomas Patrick McKenna was born at Mullagh, Co.

Cavan, Ireland, in 1929 and educated at Mullagh School and St

Patrick's College, Cavan. There he became a protégé of Fr. Vincent

Kennedy who featured him in the annual productions of Gilbert &

Sullivan operas. He was a noted treble and sang in Cavan Cathedral,

but later would also become a keen member of the school's Gaelic

Football squad representing St Patrick's in the final of the All

Ireland colleges competition in 1948.After leaving school he joined

the Ulster Bank in Granard, Co Longford, and worked in banking for the

next five years. However, he remained set on becoming an actor and

when he received a posting to Dublin he soon made a mark on the city's

amateur scene appearing with the Rathmines & Rathgar Operatic Society,

and the Dublin Shakespeare Society. His employers were not impressed

by his extra curricular activities and in 1953 he was posted to the

remote town of Killeshandra in County Cavan. McKenna refused to go and

resigned his position.
T. P. McKenna Family, Real Name, Spouse, Profession, Eye Color, body stats, Feet Size, Wiki


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