Harry Brogan

Harry Brogan was an Irish actor known for comic and character parts on the Dublin stage. He belonged to the Abbey Theatre company from the late 1930s until 1976, becoming one of Ireland's leading character actors there. He specialized in the plays of Sean O'Casey, playing Joxer in the comedy Juno and the Paycock and, in The Shadow of a Gunman, the character of Sheamus Shiels. One of his last roles was Cardinal Richelieu in The Devils in 1976, at 72. He turned down Broadway work and film offers from England and America, though he was cast as Tom Cassidy in Shake Hands with the Devil (1959) and appeared in Lies My Father Told Me (1960) and The Quare Fellow (1962). He also worked in radio from Radio Éireann's early days, took part in its first broadcast play, William, and was the station's first poetry reader. By his death he had made 18 films and more than 80 theater productions.