Name
Denis O'Dea
Known For
Acting
Birthday
1905-04-26
Deathday
1978-11-05 (73 years old)
Place of Birth
Dublin, Ireland
Biography
Denis O'Dea (26 April 1905 – 5 November 1978) was an Irish stage and film actor.
He was born in Dublin and attended Synge Street CBS. When very young he and his mother Kathleen (from County Kerry) moved in with her sister, who kept a boarding house at 54 South Richmond Street. He worked in insurance until taking up acting. O'Dea was a leading member of Dublin's Abbey Theatre where he had a great acting career from 1929 to 1953; a list of his performances can be found in the Abbey archives. He also appeared in numerous plays by Irish playwright Teresa Deevy, some of which toured New York and England. His work led to a number of notable film roles, including two mid-1930s John Ford films, The Informer and The Plough and the Stars (1936), and the part of the police inspector in pursuit of IRA man James Mason in Carol Reed's Odd Man Out (1947).
Known For
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Enchanted by the idea of locating treasure buried by Captain Flint, Squire Trelawney, Dr. ...
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Phillipe, the son of an ambassador in London, hero-worships his father's butler Baines. Hi...
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A British ex-convict in colonial Australia and his fragile wife, haunted by the past crime...
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Captain Horatio Hornblower leads his ship HMS Lydia on a perilous transatlantic voyage, du...
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Gypo Nolan is a former Irish Republican Army man who drowns his sorrows in the bottle. He'...
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Recently widowed Persian King Ahasuerus wants to marry the beautiful Esther. But Esther is...
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Belfast police conduct a door-to-door manhunt for an IRA gunman wounded in a daring robber...
- 1948 The Fallen Idol as Inspector Crowe
- 1950 Treasure Island as Dr. Livesy
- 1953 Mogambo as Father Josef
- 1935 Guests of The Nation
- 1947 Odd Man Out as Inspector
- 1953 Niagara as Inspector Starkey
- 1953 Sea Devils as Lethierry
- 1960 Esther and the King as Mordecai
- 1936 The Plough and the Stars as The Covey
- 1957 The Rising of the Moon as Police Sergeant Tom O'Hara (segment '1921')
- 1949 Landfall as Captain Burnaby
- 1951 Captain Horatio Hornblower R.N. as RAdm. Sir Rodney Leighton
- 1936 Beloved Enemy as Sean's I.R.A. Friend (Uncredited)
- 1951 Never Take No for an Answer as Father Damico
- 1949 Under Capricorn as Mr. Corrigan
- 1949 The Bad Lord Byron as Prosecuting Counsel
- 1960 Cradle of Genius as Self
- 1955 Captain Lightfoot as Regis Donnell
- 1949 Marry Me as George Saunders
- 1959 Darby O'Gill and the Little People as Father Murphy
- 1935 The Informer as Street Singer
- 1951 The Long Dark Hall as Sir Charles Morton
- 1957 The Story of Esther Costello as Father Devlin
- 1959 I Captured the King of the Leprechauns as Father Murphy
- 1947 The Mark of Cain as Sir William Godgrey
