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Joseph Tomelty (5 March 1911 – 7 June 1995) [1] was an Irish actor, playwright, novelist, short-story writer and theatre manager. He worked in film, television, radio and on the stage, [2] 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...
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.
Jun 5, 2020 · Joseph Tomelty. First seen at the Abbey Theatre, Dublin – where public and pundits held Tomelty in high esteem – The End House (1944) revealed him to be a writer willing to provoke as well as...
Mar 5, 2017 · Joseph Tomelty, Irish character actor and playwright, is born at Portaferry, County Down, on March 5, 1911. He works in film, television, radio, and on the stage, starring in Sam Thompson's 1960 play Over the Bridge.
Apr 18, 2015 · Author, Actor, Playwright. 1911-1995. Joseph (Joe) Tomelty was born in Portaferry, Co Down, on March 5th 1911. The eldest of seven children, he left the local primary school at 12 to be apprenticed to his father’s trade of housepainter.
Joseph Tomelty was an actor who had a successful Hollywood career. Tomelty's career in acting began with his roles in various films like the James Mason drama "Odd Man Out" (1947), "The Sound...
Joseph Tomelty (1911-95) Life. b. Portaferry, Co. Down, youngest of seven; became house painter after his father from 12; his father was a folk musician; went to work in Harland and Wolff shipyard; member of St Peter’s Players amateur group; became author of extremely popular The MacCooeys, a highly popular Ulster radio series, 1948-54 ...
Joseph Tomelty is known as an Actor and Dialogue. Some of his work includes Moby Dick, Hobson's Choice, Odd Man Out, A Night to Remember, Devil Girl from Mars, The Sound Barrier, Hell Is a City, and The Day They Robbed the Bank of England.
