Pat Laffan
Pat Laffan was an Irish actor best known for his roles as Georgie Burgess in The Snapper and the milkman Pat Mustard in the Father Ted episode Speed 3. Laffan grew up on a farm in Co. Meath and began his career as an actor after graduating from Engineering in UCD. A prolific theatre actor, Laffan was a member of the Abbey Theatre Company in the 1960s and 1970s, and was the Director of the Peacock Theatre for most of the 1970s. He directed in the Gate Theatre from 1979 to 1982. Laffan had around 40 film credits to his name - including turns in Steven Spielberg's War Horse (2011), Intermission (2003), The General (1998) and Leap Year (2010) - and 30 credits on TV, Moone Boy, EastEnders and Ripper Street, to name a few. He died on March 14th, 2019 at the age of 79.
Barry Lyndon
as uncreditedAn Irish rogue uses his cunning and wit to work his way up the social classes of 18th century...
Movie pageLeap Year
as DonalWhen yet another anniversary passes without a marriage proposal from her boyfriend, Anna decides...
Movie pageWar Horse
as Devon Farmer #2On the brink of the First World War, Albert's beloved horse Joey is sold to the Cavalry by his...
Movie pageThe Saint
as Catholic PriestSimon Templar (The Saint), is a thief for hire, whose latest job to steal the secret process for...
Movie pageMy Left Foot: The Story of Christy Brown
as BarmanNo one expects much from Christy Brown, a boy with cerebral palsy born into a working-class...
Movie pageThe Queen
as Head GhillieThe Queen is an intimate behind the scenes glimpse at the interaction between HM Elizabeth II...
Movie pageThe General
as Sgt. Patrick HigginsThe real-life story of Dublin folk hero and criminal Martin Cahill, who pulled off two daring...
Movie pageThe General
as Police Sergeant Patrick HigginsThe real-life story of Dublin folk hero and criminal Martin Cahill, who pulled off two daring...
Movie pageIntermission
as Charlie O'BrienA raucous story of the interweaving lives and loves of small-town delinquents, shady cops,...
Movie pageTrojan Eddie
as MattTrojan Eddie sells stolen goods for John Power, aging godfather of a local network of Irish...
Movie pageSpace Truckers
as ScummyJohn Canyon is one of the last independent space transport entrepreneurs. Rough times force him...
Movie pageAn Awfully Big Adventure
as Mr HarcourtLiverpool. 1947. Right after World War II, a star struck naive teenage girl joins a shabby...
Movie pageThe Serpent's Kiss
as PritchardA man sends a young architect to build an extravagant garden to bankrupt the husband of the...
Movie pageWar of the Buttons
as Mr ConnorWar between two Irish youth gangs consists of removing and retrieving buttons from each other's...
Movie pageThe Snapper
as George BurgessSharon Curley is a 20-year-old living with her parents and many brothers and sisters in Dublin....
Movie pageThe Runway
as ManusThe Runway is inspired by the true story of a South American pilot who landed his plane near...
Movie pageHear My Song
as Taxi Driver 1Singer Josef Locke fled to Ireland 25 years ago to escape the clutches of the tax man and police...
Movie pageHow Harry Became a Tree
as Father O'ConnorSet in rural Ireland. Believing that "a man is measured by his enemies", Harry Maloney (Colm...
Movie pageThe Playboys
as DuffyA young woman, Tara Maguire (Robin Wright) scandalizes her provincial Irish village in the 1950s...
Movie pageDurango
as Bill GobberleyIn 1939 Ireland, a young man decides to lead a forty mile cattle drive rather than selling his...
Movie pageThe Boys & Girl from County Clare
as Gerry - The Customs OfficerIn Ireland in the mid 1960s, two feuding brothers and their respective Ceilidh bands compete at...
Movie pageGirl with Green Eyes
as Bertie CounhamCatholic-Irish farm girl Kate, along with her gregarious best friend Baba, moves to Dublin to...
Movie pageSharpe's Sword
as ConnellySharpe is tasked to protect the most important spy in Lord Wellington's network, but domestic...
Movie pageThe Wednesdays
as JudgeSometimes, when you're in the autumn of your days, you'll try anything just to put a smile on...
Movie pageEvents at Drimaghleen
as Mr. McDowdThe painful memories of the tragedy that awaited the people of Drimaghleen on 2/11/88 have just...
Movie pageI Can't... I Can't...
as Dr. Farnum (as Patrick Laffan)The tale of a young Irish Catholic bride who is devastated when her pregnant mother miscarries...
Movie pageA War of Children
as uncreditedA Protestant and a Catholic family's friendship is threatened by the sectarian violence in...
Movie pagePark
as uncreditedCatherine goes to a local park to meet up with a school friend. The friend is not there, and...
Movie pagePigs
as Detective 2Grim tale of marginalized souls in an apocalyptic Dublin inner city. Jimmy takes up residence in...
Movie pageLaid to Rest
as FrankA feuding father and son must put aside their differences and get morbidly creative in order to...
Movie pageRipper Street
as JudgeA drama set in the East End of London in 1889, during the aftermath of the "Ripper" murders. The...
TV Show pageFather Ted
as Pat MustardA crazy comedy about three rather strange parish priests exiled to Craggy Island, a remote...
TV Show pageQuirke
as CostiganQuirke is the chief pathologist in the Dublin city morgue – a charismatic loner whose job takes...
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