Dan O'Herlihy

Dan O'Herlihy
Dan O'Herlihy as the villain Conal Cochran in Halloween III: Season of the Witch (1982).
Born	May 1, 1919(1919-05-01) Wexford, Ireland
Died	February 17, 2005 (aged 85) Malibu, California, USA

Daniel O'Herlihy (1 May 1919 — 17 February 2005) was an Irish film actor.

Early life

O'Herlihy was born in Wexford and married Elsie Bennett in 1945. He was the brother of director Michael O'Herlihy (1928-1997) and the father of actor Gavan O'Herlihy, visual artist Olwen O'Herlihy, and architect Lorcan O'Herlihy. He was also the grandfather of Cian Dowling, Colin O'Herilhy, Micaela O'Herlihy and Eilis O'Herlihy.

Career

O'Herlihy first appeared in Carol Reed's Odd Man Out in 1947. His first American film was Macbeth in the following year, appearing with Orson Welles. He played the role of Macduff. In 1954 he starred in Luis Buñuel's Robinson Crusoe, which earned him a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actor (which he lost to Marlon Brando for On the Waterfront). That same year he also starred in the Red Scare movie Invasion U.S.A..

O'Herlihy later starred in Fail-Safe in 1964 (as General Black, or "Blackie"), and in the epic Waterloo playing the part of the brave Marshall of France Michel Ney, The Big Cube in (1969), Halloween III: Season of the Witch in 1982, The Last Starfighter in 1984 as Grig Alex's copilot, navigator, and sidekick., The Whoopee Boys in 1986, John Huston's The Dead in 1987, in RoboCop, and its sequel RoboCop 2.

He also had a fairly extensive career in television, appearing in such shows as CBS's anthology series, The DuPont Show with June Allyson, and ABC's crime drama, Target: The Corruptors!.

In 1963-1964, he appeared as the wandering gold-seeker father in The Travels of Jaimie McPheeters western, with co-star Kurt Russell. On NBC's The Long Hot Summer, O'Herlihy became the lead star, having replaced Edmond O'Brien in the part of Will Varner midway through the program's one-season run. In 1966, he appeared in the episode "Have You Seen the Aurora Borealis?" of NBC's western series The Road West, starring Barry Sullivan. In 1978 he guest starred in the 2nd part of the Battlestar_Galactica_(1978_TV_series) episode Gun on Ice Planet Zero as Dr. Ravishol. O'Herlihy also appeared in the cult television program Twin Peaks in 1991, and in the episode, Deep Freeze of Batman: The Animated Series voicing the Mr. Freeze-obsessed theme park mogul Grant Walker. In 1998, O'Herlihy acted in his last film, The Rat Pack, playing Joseph P. Kennedy.

Death

O'Herlihy died of natural causes in Malibu, California, USA. His personal papers are held in the University College Dublin Archives.

External links

• Dan O'Herlihy at the Internet Movie Database