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Joseph Tomelty (5 March 1911 – 7 June 1995) was an Irish actor, playwright, novelist, short-story writer and theatre manager. He worked in film, television, radio and on the stage, starring in Sam Thompson's 1960 play Over the Bridge.
Joseph Tomelty. Actor: A Night to Remember. The distinctively white-haired, bushy-browed Northern Irish novelist, playwright and character actor, Joseph Tomelty was born the eldest of seven children in the small fishing village of Portaferry, County Down.
Jun 12, 1995 · Joseph Tomelty was one of the most important cultural and artistic figures in Northern Ireland since the Second World War; and the first significant literary artist from the northern Catholic...
Jun 5, 2020 · At the height of his fame in the early 1950s, there was no more prominent or popular a figure in Irish theatre than the actor, playwright, novelist and theatre manager Joseph Tomelty, the 25th...
Tomelty, Joseph (1911–95), actor and playwright, was born 12 March 1911 in Portaferry, Co. Down, son of James Tomelty, house painter and keen traditional musician, and Mary Tomelty (née Drumgoole).
Feb 16, 2011 · Acting Abilities. Sir Tyrone Guthrie, R.H. McCandless, David Kennedy, daughter Roma and Tomelty himself talk about his talents as an actor. 16 February 2011. 3 minutes.
Joseph Tomelty. 1911 - 1995. Joseph Tomelty was a playwright, novelist and actor. Born in Portaferry, Co Down, he left school at 12 to be apprenticed to his father’s trade as a house painter, then moved to Belfast to work as a painter in the Harland and Wolff shipyard.
