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Personal Info

Known For

Acting

Gender

Male

Birthday

1938-12-28

Place of Birth

Blackrock, County Dublin, Ireland

Frank Kelly

Biography

Francis O'Kelly (December 28, 1938 – February 28, 2016), known as Frank Kelly, was an Irish actor, known for Father Ted (1995), Evelyn (2002), and Rat (2000). He was married to Bairbre Neldon.

Known for

Remington Steele

Remington Steele

Laura Holt, a licensed private detective, opens a detective agency but finds that potential clients refuse to hire a woman, however qualified. To solve the problem, Laura invents a fictitious male superior whom she names Remington Steele. Through a series of events that unfold in the first episode, "License to Steele," a former thief and con man, whose real name is never revealed, assumes the identity of Remington Steele. Behind the scenes, Laura remains firmly in charge.

Lexx

Lexx

A Time Prophet predicted that Kai would be the one to destroy the divine order in the league of the 20,000 planets, someday that will happen, but not today. Today a cowardly security guard, an undead assassin, a female with a body designed for sex and a robot head madly in love with her all make up the crew of the spaceship Lexx, the most powerful weapon in the two universes.

Father Ted

Father Ted

A crazy comedy about three rather strange parish priests exiled to Craggy Island, a remote island off the Irish west coast.

Second City Firsts

Second City Firsts

A series of plays from Birmingham by new writers.

Troubles

Troubles

In 1919, Major Brendan Archer arrives in Ireland to reunite with his fiancée, Angela Spencer. Unfortunately, the family home, The Majestic Hotel, is a decaying shadow of its former self, as is Angela. Puzzled by the changes, Archer's attentions are soon drawn to her lively friend, Sarah Devlin, a passionate Irish Nationalist. They fall in love, but the Major soon discovers some disturbing aspects about their relationship, which threatens to explode into violence, destruction, and murder.

The Running Mate

The Running Mate

In Kerry, Ireland, a candidate for political office forms an alliance with an unlikely partner when his campaign is not going according to plan.

Paddywhackery

Paddywhackery

Newly unemployed Paddy Woods (Paddy C. Courtney), discovers there are large grants available to businesses that promote the Irish language.

Rat

Rat

After a night of drinking Guiness at the local watering hole, an ordinary, working-class, family man in Dublin's life is turned upside-down when he wakes up as a rat.

Hear My Song

Hear My Song

Singer Josef Locke fled to Ireland 25 years ago to escape the clutches of the tax man and police Chief Jim Abbott. What he also left behind was the love of his life Cathleen Doyle. Now, Micky O’Neill is desperate to save both his ailing Liverpool nightclub ‘Heartly’s’ and his failing relationship with the beautiful Nancy, Cathleen’s daughter. The solution? Book the infamous Josef Locke.

Evelyn

Evelyn

Desmond Doyle is devastated when his wife abandons their family on the day after Christmas. His unemployment, and the fact that there is no woman in the house to care for the children—Evelyn, Dermot and Maurice—make it clear to the authorities this is an untenable situation. The Catholic Church and the Irish courts decide to put the Doyle children into Church-run orphanages.

War of the Buttons

War of the Buttons

War between two Irish youth gangs consists of removing and retrieving buttons from each other's clothing.

Taffin

Taffin

When a small Irish town is terrorized by a corrupt business syndicate, a lone hero wages an all out war.

Mrs. Brown's Boys D'Movie

Mrs. Brown's Boys D'Movie

When Moore Street market-trader Agnes Brown finds her livelihood under threat from a ruthless developer, she and her family embark on a campaign to save her stall, aided as only the Browns will be by a motley troop of blind trainee Ninjas, an alcoholic solicitor, and a barrister with Tourettes Syndrome.

The Boys & Girl from County Clare

The Boys & Girl from County Clare

In Ireland in the mid 1960s, two feuding brothers and their respective Ceilidh bands compete at a music festival.

Cowboys & Angels

Cowboys & Angels

This story concerns a hapless civil servant who gets more than he bargains for when he moves into an apartment in Limerick with a gay fashion student and becomes a star on the catwalk. A contemporary story embracing the essence of what it is to be young in today's Ireland.