Tony Doyle (16 January 1942 â€" 28 January 2000) was a well-known
Irish television and film actor. He became widely known in Ireland as
a then-radical priest in the popular Irish rural drama The Riordans,
which began in 1965. He worked consistently in series, television
films, and feature films throughout his life. He died unexpectedly in
2000, at the time playing in another well-known Irish rural drama,
Ballykissangel.He first came to prominence playing a liberal Catholic
priest - Father Sheehy - in RTÉ's iconic rural drama The Riordans. He
appeared in such popular shows as Coronation Street, Between the
Lines, 1990, Children of the North and Ballykissangel, and won an
Irish Film and Television Academy Award for best leading performance
for his role in the 1998 miniseries Amongst Women. Tony Doyle also
appeared in the first Minder episode, "Gunfight at the OK Laundrette",
playing a drunken Irishman.His most famous film role saw Tony as the
head of the SAS, Colonel Hadley, in the 1982 British film Who Dares
Wins. His other film roles included appearances in Ulysses (1967),
Quackser Fortune Has a Cousin in the Bronx (1970), Loophole (1981),
Eat the Peach (1986), Secret Friends (1991), Damage (1992), Circle of
Friends (1995), and as Tom French in I Went Down (1997).
Irish television and film actor. He became widely known in Ireland as
a then-radical priest in the popular Irish rural drama The Riordans,
which began in 1965. He worked consistently in series, television
films, and feature films throughout his life. He died unexpectedly in
2000, at the time playing in another well-known Irish rural drama,
Ballykissangel.He first came to prominence playing a liberal Catholic
priest - Father Sheehy - in RTÉ's iconic rural drama The Riordans. He
appeared in such popular shows as Coronation Street, Between the
Lines, 1990, Children of the North and Ballykissangel, and won an
Irish Film and Television Academy Award for best leading performance
for his role in the 1998 miniseries Amongst Women. Tony Doyle also
appeared in the first Minder episode, "Gunfight at the OK Laundrette",
playing a drunken Irishman.His most famous film role saw Tony as the
head of the SAS, Colonel Hadley, in the 1982 British film Who Dares
Wins. His other film roles included appearances in Ulysses (1967),
Quackser Fortune Has a Cousin in the Bronx (1970), Loophole (1981),
Eat the Peach (1986), Secret Friends (1991), Damage (1992), Circle of
Friends (1995), and as Tom French in I Went Down (1997).
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