David Kelly
Date of birth: 1929-07-11
Place of birth: Dublin, Ireland
Known for: Acting
Also known as: 大衛·凱利
Biography
David Kelly (July 11, 1929 – February 12, 2012) was an Irish actor who had regular roles in several film and television works from the 1950s onwards. One of the most recognisable voices and faces of Irish stage and screen, Kelly was known for his roles as Rashers Tierney in Strumpet City, Cousin Enda in Me Mammy, the builder Mr O'Reilly in Fawlty Towers, Albert Riddle in Robin's Nest, and Grandpa Joe in the film Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2005). Another notable role was as Michael O'Sullivan in Waking Ned Devine.
Movie Credits
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
2005-07-13
A young boy wins a tour through the most magnificent chocolate factory in the world, led by the worl
Waking Ned
1998-11-20
When a lottery winner dies of shock, his fellow townsfolk attempt to claim the money.
Billy Budd
1966-12-11
A version of Benjamin Britten's opera based on the Melville story. Will the virtuous young sailor Bi
Joyriders
1988-10-14
The growing relationship of two people who travel through Ireland in a series of stolen cars.
The Matchmaker
1997-10-03
Marcy, a worker in the reelection campaign of bumbling Senator John McGlory, is sent to Ireland on a
Into the West
1992-10-23
Accused of a crime they didn't commit, two city kids and a magical horse are about to become the coo
Greenfingers
2001-07-27
Prison inmate Colin Briggs is introduced to gardening, and when his thriving prison garden attracts
Mean Machine
2001-12-26
Disgraced ex-England football captain, Danny 'Mean Machine' Meehan, is thrown in jail for assaulting
The Kovak Box
2006-07-18
David Norton is used to being in control. As a best-selling author, he decides the fate of his chara
Girl with Green Eyes
1964-05-14
A naive young country girl moves to Dublin and finds herself drawn to a sophisticated author twice h
Moondance
1995-01-01
The close relationship between two fun-loving brothers comes under threat when a beautiful, sensitiv
The Wrong Man
1956-12-22
In 1953, an innocent man named Christopher Emmanuel "Manny" Balestrero is arrested after being mista
The Purple Taxi
1977-05-25
With his mauve taxi, the old philosopher Dr. Seamus Scully runs around the small green roads of the
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
1977-09-01
Bosco Hogan plays Joyce's alter-ego, Stephen Daedelus, growing up in Ireland in the early part of th
Mystics
2003-12-12
A black comedy about two old-time conmen who pretend to be able to communicate with the dead.
Rough for Theatre I
2000-01-01
An old blind beggar and an old cripple in a wheelchair meet on a desolate street corner. The latter
The Run of the Country
1995-09-22
An Irish lad who fled from his oppressive, widowed father falls for a girl from an affluent family.
Stardust
2007-08-10
In a countryside town bordering on a magical land, a young man makes a promise to his beloved that h
A Man of No Importance
1994-12-24
Alfie Byrne is a middle-aged bus conductor in Dublin in 1963. He would appear to live a life of quie
Fawlty Towers: Re-Opened
2009-05-10
30 years after Fawlty Towers (1975) ended, Stephen Fry narrates a documentary about the making of th
The Calcium Kid
2004-04-30
When milkman Jimmy Connelly accidentally puts Britain's contender for the World title out of action,
The Jigsaw Man
1983-11-11
Philip Kimberly, the former head of the British Secret Service who defected to Russia, is given plas
Young Man in Trouble
1970-07-06
A problem for Frank and Margaret turns out to be a false alarm, or even a blessing in disguise.
The Virgins
1974-06-24
Three middle-aged Irish bachelors - Shemm, Cloggy and Ambrose - put drinks before sex. Even Mrs Ryde
Agent Cody Banks 2: Destination London
2004-03-12
With all-new gadgets, high-flying action, exciting chases and a wisecracking new handler, Derek (Ant
The Last
2002-01-01
A short film about a shoemaker who pledged his fiancé he would make her the most beautiful pair of s
The McKenzie Break
1970-10-28
A German U-Boat commander plans a daring escape from a PoW camp in Scotland.
Pirates
1986-05-08
The adventures of pirate Captain Red and his first mate Frog.
Quackser Fortune Has a Cousin in the Bronx
1970-06-13
In Dublin, a working class family has been unsuccessful in convincing their son to get a real job: t
The Italian Job
1969-06-02
Charlie's got a 'job' to do. Having just left prison he finds one of his friends has attempted a hig
Ordinary Decent Criminal
2000-01-07
Michael Lynch is a notorious criminal with two wives and a flair for showmanship. He's also a huge e
Ulysses
1967-03-14
Dublin; June 16, 1904. Stephen Dedalus, who fancies himself as a poet, embarks on a day of wandering
Red Monarch
1983-06-16
British comedy satirising Stalin's inner circle as an absolute monarchs court. In the face of rampan
Puckoon
2002-01-01
Spike Milligan's book about the divided Irish village of Puckoon comes to the big screen.
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
1982-02-02
Quasimodo, the hunchback bellringer of Notre Dame's cathedral, meets a beautiful gypsy dancer, Esmer
The Light Princess
1978-12-24
Based on a short story by George MacDonald, a princess experiences constant weightlessness.
The Quare Fellow
1962-10-02
Thomas Crimmins is a new warder, or guard, in an Irish prison. He is young, naive, and idealistic, d
Anne Devlin
1984-10-01
The story of Anne Devlin, who was caught up in the revolt of the Irish under Robert Emmett in 1803,
The Comedy of Errors
1983-12-24
Aegeon of Syracuse has come to Ephesus to seek his son, who went in search of his missing twin and m
The Legion Hall Bombing
1978-08-22
The story of the trial of Willie Gallagher, convicted of bombing the Strabane British Legion Hall in
Laws of Attraction
2004-04-04
Amidst a sea of litigation, two New York City divorce lawyers find love.
Fugitive
1974-12-05
After 18 years as a friar, Peter is no longer sure of his vocation. It is a happy life, maybe too mu
Philadelphia, Here I Come
1975-06-01
Friel contrasts Gar's cloistered emotional life with his gregarious social persona by portraying him
Never Mind the Quality, Feel the Width
1973-01-03
Two London tailors horse around, wind up robbed, go to Rome and disrupt the Vatican.
Dublin Nightmare
1958-10-01
Loot goes missing in robbery double-cross. Gang members, an ex-lover and a handsome stranger are lef
The Next Man
1976-11-10
Khalil is an Arab diplomat who wants to not only make peace with Israel, but admit the Jewish state
Thou Shalt Not Kill... Except
1985-10-13
Vietnam, 1969. War is Hell. For Marine Sergeant Jack Stryker, however, Hell is just the beginning.
Gaybo Laughs Back
2008-11-09
Gaybo Laughs Back is an hour-long special, hosted by Gay Byrne who introduces some of the comedy hig
The Statue and the Rose
1975-05-23
The love affair of Irish nationalist politician Charles Stewart Parnell with a married woman, Kather