Daragh O'Malley
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Daragh O'Malley is an Irish
film, theatre and television actor
, best known for his portrayal of the much loved and ever faithful but rather fearsome Patrick Harper in the legendary Sharpe
TV series along side Sean Bean
. O'Malley also appeared in a number of famous productions such as The Magnificent Seven
, Texas
and Cleopatra,
Raised in Limerick
, the 6'3" O'Malley was educated by the Jesuit and Carmelite monks and went on to study drama at London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art
where one of his fellow students was Amy Irving
and records show that Irving once played Antigone to O'Malley's Creon in a production of Antigone.
In the mid 90s, O'Malley was cast as Debra Winger's husband in a leading role in the ill fated feature Divine Rapture
which starred Marlon Brando, Winger, O'Malley, John Hurt and Johnny Depp, though the project collapsed after four weeks filming when the Los Angeles production company Orion suddenly went bankrupt. Three time Oscar nominee Winger virtually retired from acting after Divine Rapture. O'Malley, who lived in Los Angeles for many years, remained a close friend of Brando's following the Divine Rapture debacle and the two were working on a film production of The Merchant of Venice - with Brando due to play Shylock - when the screen legend died.
O'Malley's production company produced the Irish version of The Rocky Horror Show
in Dublin in the early 90s and the show won numerous of awards including a Best Production Jacobs Award 1991. Author Richard O'Brien described the Irish production as "without doubt,the sexiest version ever produced". The show had many cast members in common with The Commitments
and the house was bought out one night by Tom Cruise as the wrap party venue for the cast and crew of the movie Far and Away
which was filming in Ireland at the time.
O'Malley's father, Donogh O'Malley, was an Irish politician who served as an TD for Limerick East and as his country's Minister for Education, introducing a Free Secondary and Third Level education system in Ireland which is credited with the subsequent massive upsurge in the Irish economy.
Donogh O'Malley was once engaged to actor Richard Harris's sister, Audrey, but she died during the engagement at 21. Donough O'Malley himself died of a heart attack aged 47. Harris, also from Limerick, and Daragh were often spotted at Dingle Races together in August and drinking in various hostelries around Co.Kerry and in Scott's Pub in Kilkee,Co. Clare in Ireland and in The Coach and Horses and The Coal Hole in London's West End.
O Malley has had a keen interest in horse racing since he was a child - three successful horses that he himself owned were MUSTANG PRINCE which won twelve races - LONG HAIRED LOVER and RUNNING DEER, which he named after a character in the Richard Harris film A Man Called Horse. Harris had two racehorses which he named A TRAMP SHINING and CROMWELL.
O'Malley's mother, Hilda, a doctor from Dingle Co. Kerry, is the subject of Patrick Kavanagh
's extraordinary love poem "On Raglan Road
".
In Los Angeles O'Malley won a Drama-Logue
Best Actor Award for his 1998 performance as "Sweeney" in Patrick Marber's Dealers Choice Mark Taper Forum
O'Malley's late aunt, Meave - his father's sister - was singer Dido
's grandmother.
It is rumoured that O'Malley was approached by Fianna Fáil
, once Ireland's leading political party,to run for the Irish parliament on several occasions in recent years.
O'Malley is Founder of The Sharpe's Children Foundation (www.sharpeschildren.com), a charity set up and designed to petition for universal primary education and take children out of the gutters of the developing world and educate them in Sharpe's Shelters, and a Director of Flood Street Films. (www.floodstreetfilms.com), which develops an array of film and television projects.
Daragh is married to Gabrielle (nee Leavy) since 1993.
Irish people
The Irish people are an ethnic group who originate in Ireland, an island in northwestern Europe. Ireland has been populated for around 9,000 years , with the Irish people's earliest ancestors recorded having legends of being descended from groups such as the Nemedians, Fomorians, Fir Bolg, Tuatha...
film, theatre and television actor
Actor
An actor is a person who acts in a dramatic production and who works in film, television, theatre, or radio in that capacity...
, best known for his portrayal of the much loved and ever faithful but rather fearsome Patrick Harper in the legendary Sharpe
Sharpe (TV series)
Sharpe is a British series of television dramas starring Sean Bean about Richard Sharpe, a fictional British soldier in the Napoleonic Wars. Sharpe is the hero of a number of novels by Bernard Cornwell; most, though not all, of the episodes are based on the books...
TV series along side Sean Bean
Sean Bean
Shaun Mark "Sean" Bean is an English film and stage actor. Bean is best known for playing Boromir in The Lord of the Rings Trilogy and, previously, British Colonel Richard Sharpe in the ITV television series Sharpe...
. O'Malley also appeared in a number of famous productions such as The Magnificent Seven
The Magnificent Seven
The Magnificent Seven is an American Western film directed by John Sturges, and released in 1960. It is a fictional tale of a group of seven American gunmen who are hired to protect a small agricultural village in Mexico from a group of marauding Mexican bandits...
, Texas
Texas (film)
Texas is a Western movie starring Glenn Ford - William Holden and directed by George Marshall-Plot:Two cowboys witness an assault of a diligence. They steal loot and rendezvous. However, they discover they are on different sides of the law...
and Cleopatra,
Raised in Limerick
Limerick
Limerick is the third largest city in the Republic of Ireland, and the principal city of County Limerick and Ireland's Mid-West Region. It is the fifth most populous city in all of Ireland. When taking the extra-municipal suburbs into account, Limerick is the third largest conurbation in the...
, the 6'3" O'Malley was educated by the Jesuit and Carmelite monks and went on to study drama at London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art
London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art
The London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art is a leading British drama school in west London. LAMDA's president is Timothy West and its new principal is Joanna Read, who recently succeeded Peter James...
where one of his fellow students was Amy Irving
Amy Irving
Amy Davis Irving is an American actress, known for her roles in the films Crossing Delancey, The Fury, Carrie, and Yentl as well as acclaimed roles on Broadway and Off-Broadway. She has been nominated for an Academy Award, two Golden Globes, and has won an Obie award...
and records show that Irving once played Antigone to O'Malley's Creon in a production of Antigone.
In the mid 90s, O'Malley was cast as Debra Winger's husband in a leading role in the ill fated feature Divine Rapture
Divine Rapture
Divine Rapture is an uncompleted film that had been cast in 1995 with Marlon Brando, Johnny Depp, Debra Winger and John Hurt.-Background:Divine Rapture is the story of a set of miracles in a small 1950's Irish community...
which starred Marlon Brando, Winger, O'Malley, John Hurt and Johnny Depp, though the project collapsed after four weeks filming when the Los Angeles production company Orion suddenly went bankrupt. Three time Oscar nominee Winger virtually retired from acting after Divine Rapture. O'Malley, who lived in Los Angeles for many years, remained a close friend of Brando's following the Divine Rapture debacle and the two were working on a film production of The Merchant of Venice - with Brando due to play Shylock - when the screen legend died.
O'Malley's production company produced the Irish version of The Rocky Horror Show
The Rocky Horror Show
The Rocky Horror Show is a long-running British horror comedy stage musical, which opened in London on 19 June 1973. It was written by Richard O'Brien, produced and directed by Jim Sharman. It came eighth in a BBC Radio 2 listener poll of the "Nation's Number One Essential Musicals"...
in Dublin in the early 90s and the show won numerous of awards including a Best Production Jacobs Award 1991. Author Richard O'Brien described the Irish production as "without doubt,the sexiest version ever produced". The show had many cast members in common with The Commitments
The Commitments
The Commitments is a novel by Irish writer Roddy Doyle, and is the first episode in The Barrytown Trilogy. It is a tale about a group of unemployed young people in the north side of Dublin, Ireland, who start a soul band.-Plot summary:...
and the house was bought out one night by Tom Cruise as the wrap party venue for the cast and crew of the movie Far and Away
Far and Away
Far and Away is a 1992 adventure-drama-romance film directed by Ron Howard from a script by Howard and Bob Dolman, and stars Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman. Cinematography by Mikael Salomon, with a music score by John Williams...
which was filming in Ireland at the time.
O'Malley's father, Donogh O'Malley, was an Irish politician who served as an TD for Limerick East and as his country's Minister for Education, introducing a Free Secondary and Third Level education system in Ireland which is credited with the subsequent massive upsurge in the Irish economy.
Donogh O'Malley was once engaged to actor Richard Harris's sister, Audrey, but she died during the engagement at 21. Donough O'Malley himself died of a heart attack aged 47. Harris, also from Limerick, and Daragh were often spotted at Dingle Races together in August and drinking in various hostelries around Co.Kerry and in Scott's Pub in Kilkee,Co. Clare in Ireland and in The Coach and Horses and The Coal Hole in London's West End.
O Malley has had a keen interest in horse racing since he was a child - three successful horses that he himself owned were MUSTANG PRINCE which won twelve races - LONG HAIRED LOVER and RUNNING DEER, which he named after a character in the Richard Harris film A Man Called Horse. Harris had two racehorses which he named A TRAMP SHINING and CROMWELL.
O'Malley's mother, Hilda, a doctor from Dingle Co. Kerry, is the subject of Patrick Kavanagh
Patrick Kavanagh
Patrick Kavanagh was an Irish poet and novelist. Regarded as one of the foremost poets of the 20th century, his best known works include the novel Tarry Flynn and the poems Raglan Road and The Great Hunger...
's extraordinary love poem "On Raglan Road
On Raglan Road
"On Raglan Road" is a well-known Irish song from a poem written by Irish poet Patrick Kavanagh named after Raglan Road in Ballsbridge, Dublin. In the poem the poet, walking on a "quiet street", recalls a love affair he had with a young woman...
".
In Los Angeles O'Malley won a Drama-Logue
Drama-Logue Award
The Drama-Logue Award was a theater award established in 1977, given by the publishers of Drama-Logue newspaper, a weekly west-coast theater trade publication. Winners were selected by the publication's theater critics, and would receive a certificate at an annual awards ceremony...
Best Actor Award for his 1998 performance as "Sweeney" in Patrick Marber's Dealers Choice Mark Taper Forum
Mark Taper Forum
The Mark Taper Forum is a 739 seat thrust stage at the Los Angeles Music Center built by Welton Becket and Associates on the Bunker Hill section of downtown Los Angeles...
O'Malley's late aunt, Meave - his father's sister - was singer Dido
Dido (singer)
Dido Florian Cloud de Bounevialle O'Malley Armstrong , known as Dido, is an English singer-songwriter.Dido shot to worldwide success with her debut album, No Angel...
's grandmother.
It is rumoured that O'Malley was approached by Fianna Fáil
Fianna Fáil
Fianna Fáil – The Republican Party , more commonly known as Fianna Fáil is a centrist political party in the Republic of Ireland, founded on 23 March 1926. Fianna Fáil's name is traditionally translated into English as Soldiers of Destiny, although a more accurate rendition would be Warriors of Fál...
, once Ireland's leading political party,to run for the Irish parliament on several occasions in recent years.
O'Malley is Founder of The Sharpe's Children Foundation (www.sharpeschildren.com), a charity set up and designed to petition for universal primary education and take children out of the gutters of the developing world and educate them in Sharpe's Shelters, and a Director of Flood Street Films. (www.floodstreetfilms.com), which develops an array of film and television projects.
Daragh is married to Gabrielle (nee Leavy) since 1993.
Filmography
- Crossroads (1974–77) ATV
- Red ShiftRed Shift (novel)Red Shift is a fantasy novel by Alan Garner. It spans over a thousand years but one geographical area: Southern Cheshire, England. Garner evokes the essence of place, allowing his characters to echo each other through time, as if their destinies may be predefined by the soil on which they walk...
(1978) BBC - The Long Good FridayThe Long Good FridayThe Long Good Friday is a British gangster film starring Bob Hoskins and Helen Mirren. It was completed in 1979 but, because of release delays, it is generally credited as a 1980 film...
(1980) Handmade - Blue Money (1982)
- Tales of the UnexpectedTales of the Unexpected (TV series)Tales of the Unexpected is a British television series originally aired between 1979 and 1988, made by Anglia Television for ITV. Filming began in 1978.The series was an anthology of different tales...
(1983) - CalCal (film)Cal is a 1984 British drama film directed by Pat O'Connor, and starring John Lynch and Helen Mirren. Based on the novella Cal written by Bernard MacLaverty who also wrote the script, the film was entered into the 1984 Cannes Film Festival, where Helen Mirren won the award for Best Actress.-Plot:Cal...
(1984) - The Last Place on EarthThe Last Place on EarthThe Last Place on Earth is a 1985 Central Television seven part serial, written by Trevor Griffiths based on the book Scott and Amundsen by Roland Huntford. The book is an exploration of the expeditions of Captain Robert F...
(1985) Central - Truckers (1987) TV Series 8 Episodes
- Withnail and IWithnail and IWithnail and I is a British black comedy made in 1986 by HandMade Films. It was written and directed by Bruce Robinson and is based on his life in London in the late 1960s. The main plot follows two unemployed young actors, Withnail and “I” who live in a squalid flat in Camden in 1969 while...
(1987) Handmade - Act of Betrayal (1988)
- A Day in SummerA Day in SummerA Day in Summer is the first novel by J.L. Carr, published in 1963. The story is set in the fictional village of Great Minden where Peplow arrives to seek retribution for the death of his son....
(1989) - Connemara (1990)
- Shoot to KillShoot to Kill (1990 TV drama)Shoot to Kill is a four-hour drama documentary reconstruction of the events that led to the 1984–86 Stalker Inquiry into the shooting of six terrorist suspects in Northern Ireland in 1982 by a specialist unit of the Royal Ulster Constabulary , allegedly without warning ; the organised fabrication...
(1990) - Sharpe's RiflesSharpe's Rifles (TV programme)Sharpe's Rifles is the first of the Sharpe television dramas, based on the Bernard Cornwell novel of the same name. Shown on ITV in 1993, the adaptation stars Sean Bean, Daragh O'Malley and Assumpta Serna...
(1993) - Sharpe's EagleSharpe's Eagle (TV programme)Sharpe's Eagle is the second in the series of Sharpe television dramas, based on the novel of the same name. Shown on ITV in 1993, the adaptation stars Sean Bean, Daragh O'Malley and Assumpta Serna.-Plot summary:...
(1993) - Sharpe's HonourSharpe's Honour (TV programme)Sharpe's Honour is a 1994 British television drama, part of a series screened on the ITV network that follows the career of Richard Sharpe, a fictional British soldier during the Napoleonic Wars...
(1994) - Sharpe's EnemySharpe's Enemy (TV programme)Sharpe's Enemy is a British television drama, part of a series that follows the career of Richard Sharpe, a British soldier during the Napoleonic Wars...
(1994) - Sharpe's CompanySharpe's Company (TV programme)Sharpe's Company is a British television drama, part of a series that follows the career of Richard Sharpe, a British soldier during the Napoleonic Wars. This episode is based on the novel of the same name by Bernard Cornwell.-Plot:...
(1994) - TexasJames A. Michener's TexasJames A. Michener's Texas is a 1994 ABC television movie directed by Richard Lang and starring Patrick Duffy as Stephen Austin, Stacy Keach as Sam Houston, Chelsea Field as Maddie Quimper, Rick Schroder as Otto McNab, Grant Show as William Travis, David Keith as Jim Bowie, John Schneider as Davy...
(1994) US Mini Series - Sharpe's SwordSharpe's Sword (TV programme)Sharpe's Sword is a 1995 British television drama, part of a series screened on the ITV network that follows the career of Richard Sharpe, a fictional British soldier during the Napoleonic Wars...
(1995) - Sharpe's BattleSharpe's Battle (TV programme)Sharpe's Battle is a 1995 British television drama, part of a series screened on the ITV network that follows the career of Richard Sharpe, a fictional British soldier during the Napoleonic Wars...
(1995) - Sharpe's GoldSharpe's Gold (TV programme)Sharpe's Gold is a 1995 British television drama, part of a series screened on the ITV network that follows the career of Richard Sharpe, a British soldier during the Napoleonic Wars. The drama has almost nothing in common with the novel of the same name by Bernard Cornwell. Scriptwriter Nigel...
(1995) - Cutthroat IslandCutthroat IslandCutthroat Island is a 1995 action adventure film directed by Renny Harlin. The film stars Geena Davis, Matthew Modine, and Frank Langella. The film received mixed reviews from critics and was a major box office bomb: listed in the Guinness Book of World Records as the biggest box office flop of...
(1995) - Shaughnessy (1996)
- Sharpe's MissionSharpe's MissionSharpe's Mission is a British television drama, part of a series that follows the career of Richard Sharpe, a British soldier during the Napoleonic Wars. Unlike most of the other installments of the series, this episode was not based on a novel by Bernard Cornwell.-Plot summary:It is 1813. France...
(1996) - Sharpe's SiegeSharpe's Siege (TV programme)Sharpe's Siege is a British television drama, part of a series that follows the career of Richard Sharpe, a British soldier during the Napoleonic Wars. The adaptation is based on the novel of the same name by Bernard Cornwell.-Plot summary:...
(1996) - Sharpe's RegimentSharpe's Regiment (TV programme)Sharpe's Regiment is a British television drama, part of a series that follows the career of Richard Sharpe, a British soldier during the Napoleonic Wars. This episode is based on the novel of the same name by Bernard Cornwell.-Plot:...
(1996) - Sharpe's JusticeSharpe's JusticeSharpe's Justice is a British television drama, part of a series that follows the career of Richard Sharpe, a British soldier during the Napoleonic Wars. Unlike most of the other installments of the series, this episode was not based on a novel by Bernard Cornwell...
(1997) - Sharpe's RevengeSharpe's Revenge (TV programme)Sharpe's Revenge is a British television drama, part of a series that follows the career of Richard Sharpe, a British soldier during the Napoleonic Wars. The adaptation is based on the novel of the same name by Bernard Cornwell.-Plot summary:...
(1997) - Sharpe's WaterlooSharpe's Waterloo (TV programme)Sharpe's Waterloo is a British television drama, part of a series that follows the career of Richard Sharpe, a British soldier during the Napoleonic Wars. The adaptation is based on the novel of the same name by Bernard Cornwell.-Plot:...
(1997) - Sharpe: The Legend (1997)
- Grim FandangoGrim FandangoGrim Fandango is a personal computer game in the graphic adventure genre released by LucasArts in 1998 and primarily written by Tim Schafer. It is the first adventure game by LucasArts to use 3D computer graphics overlaid on pre-rendered, static backgrounds...
(1998) - The Magnificent Seven (1998) CBS TV Series
- CleopatraCleopatra (1999 film)Cleopatra is a 1999 fictional film portrayal of the Egyptian queen Cleopatra, produced by Hallmark Entertainment, starring Leonor Varela as the title character, Timothy Dalton as Julius Caesar, Billy Zane as Mark Antony, Rupert Graves as Octavius, Sean Pertwee as Brutus and Bruce Payne as Cassius....
(1999) Hallmark Mini Series - VendettaVendetta (1999 film)Vendetta is an HBO original movie based on actual events that took place in New Orleans on March 14, 1891. Eighteen Italian-Americans were falsely accused of the murder of the police chief...
(1999) HBO Feature - Longitude (2000) TV Series
- McCready and Daughter(2000)
- Rebel HeartRebel Heart (film)Rebel Heart is a 2001 British television drama miniseries starring James D'Arcy as the fictional Ernie Coyne, an Irish nationalist. It is in four parts, and set during the Irish War of Independence from 1916 until the end of the Civil War. Michael Collins was idolised by Ernie, and was...
(2001) TV Series - On Home Ground (2001) 16 One Hour Episode
- The Bombmaker (2001) Sky Movies
- Puckoon (2002) Feature
- Doctors (2003) One Episode.
- In Deep (2003) TV Series
- Silent WitnessSilent WitnessSilent Witness is a BBC crime thriller series focusing on a team of forensic pathology experts and their investigations into various crimes. First broadcast in February 1996, the series is still airing to the present day, with a fifteenth series expected to air in January 2012. The series was...
(2004) Two Episodes - Wire in the BloodWire in the BloodWire in the Blood was a British crime drama television series, devised and produced by Coastal Productions for the ITV network that ran from 2002 to 2009. The series is based on characters created by Val McDermid; a university clinical psychologist, Dr Anthony "Tony" Valentine Hill , is teamed with...
(2005) Two Episodes - Sharpe's ChallengeSharpe's ChallengeSharpe's Challenge is a British television drama, part of a series that follows the career of Richard Sharpe . Here, the former British soldier undertakes his last mission for his former commander, the Duke of Wellington.-Plot:In 1803 India, Sergeant Sharpe leads a patrol to an East India Company...
(2006) ITV 2 x 90min Films. - Waking The DeadWaking the Dead (TV series)Waking the Dead is a British television police procedural crime drama series produced by the BBC featuring a fictional Cold Case Unit comprising CID police officers, a psychological profiler and a forensic scientist. A pilot episode aired in September 2000 and there have been a total of nine series...
(2007) Two Episodes - Richard The Lionheart (2008) BBC Drama
- Sharpe's PerilSharpe's PerilSharpe's Peril is a British television drama, part of a series that follows the career of Richard Sharpe, based on the novels of Bernard Cornwell.- Production history :...
(2008) ITV 2 x 90min Films - The RoyalThe RoyalThe Royal is a British medical drama series produced by ITV. The show comprises one hour episodes which were normally first aired on ITV in the Sunday early evening slot....
(2008) ITV Series - CamelotCamelot (TV series)Camelot is a historical-fantasy-drama television series which premiered on April 1, 2011. It was co-produced by the Starz cable network and GK-TV which began production during the summer of 2010...
(2011) Four Episodes