Frank Grimes

Frank Grimes was an Irish actor of stage and screen. He was born in Dublin and first won notice at the Abbey Theatre in 1967, playing young Brendan Behan in Borstal Boy. That production later went to Broadway and earned him a Tony nomination for best actor. In 1970 Franco Zeffirelli offered him the lead in Brother Sun, Sister Moon, but the two quarreled and Graham Faulkner took over. Grimes moved to London in the early 1970s and came to Lindsay Anderson's attention; Anderson cast him in David Storey's play The Farm, which raised his profile in British theater. His most important film part was Major Fuller in the Richard Attenborough film A Bridge Too Far (1977). In Ireland he was best known as Father O'Connor in the RTE series Strumpet City, a role that won him a Jacob's Award in 1981. He continued in television, including Coronation Street as Barry Connor and a 2013 Father Brown episode.