Name
Billy Boyle
Known For
Acting
Birthday
1945-02-24 (81 years old)
Place of Birth
Dublin, Ireland
Biography
Billy Boyle is an Irish actor and singer on British film, television and stage. His recording career included five 45rpm singles for the Decca and Columbia labels, including the novelty song "My Baby's Crazy 'Bout Elvis" (Decca F 11503) in 1962. He is a veteran of the West End stage, having played leading roles in over 15 hit shows. In his first West End musical, Maggie May, he was nominated as best newcomer. Gower Champion then chose him to play Barnaby in Hello Dolly at The Theatre Royal Drury Lane. He appeared in Canterbury Tales at the Phoenix Theatre as The Clerk of Oxford. Harold Hobson, The Times critic said, "He was a breath of fresh air in the West-End" He went on to play leading roles in No Sex Please, We're British, Billy, What's a Nice Country, The Rivals, Love, Lust, & Marriage, Some Like It Hot, Disney's Beauty and the Beast, and in the original cast of Dirty Dancing. Lately he has appeared as Grandpa George and Grandpa Joe in Charlie and The Chocolate Factory at Drury Lane. In 2010, he was the Mysterious Man in the Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre production of Into the Woods.
His films include Stanley Kubrick's Barry Lyndon, Groupie Girl, Side by Side, Wild Geese II, The Scarlet and the Black, Round Ireland with a Fridge and A United Kingdom.
Known For
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- 1975 Barry Lyndon as Seamus Feeny
- 2023 Unwelcome as Shopkeeper
- 1999 Shergar as Carrigan
- 2023 A Whole Lifetime with Jamie Demetriou as Terry Gill
- 1970 I Am a Groupie as Wesley
- 1991 The Grass Arena as Mr. Healy
- 1983 The Scarlet and the Black as Paddy
- 2011 Into the Woods as Mysterious Man
- 2016 A United Kingdom as Reverend James Manners
- 2010 Round Ireland with a Fridge as Donal
- 1975 Side by Side as Gary
- 1985 Wild Geese II as Devenish
- 2020 Grizzly II: Revenge as Barry's Manager
- 2017 National Theatre Live: Follies as Theodore Whitman
- 1989 Dead Bang
- 2020 Ted Lasso ( 1 episode ) as Mr. Deering
- 2022 The Flatshare ( 2 episodes ) as Grumpy Man
- 1999 Holby City ( 1 episode ) as Lennie George
- 2013 Die schlechtesten Filme aller Zeiten ( 1 episode ) as Barry's Manager (archive footage)
- 1977 The Professionals ( 1 episode ) as O'Leary
- 2017 Strike ( 2 episodes ) as Brian Tucker
- 2020 Bridgerton ( 2 episodes ) as Mr. Crabtree
- 2011 The Borgias ( 1 episode ) as The Embalmer
- 1978 Life at Stake ( 1 episode ) as Lutz Manfred Taufer
