Career
He began his career in the 1950s at the Gate Theatre in Dublin, including productions of Chekhov, Shaw and Shakespeare, and later worked on the stage and in television in England. He was in the original stage production of Philadelphia, Here I Come! and an Outer Circle Critics Award. He had small parts in Orson Welles"s film Chimes at Midnight (1965) and in 1967 he starred with Sandy Dennis in the film Up the Down Staircase about life in a New York City high school, and in The Next Manitoba (1976).
He mainly worked in the theatre in the United States on both the east and west coast, but mainly in New York City off Broadway.
He was in the premiere of Tennessee Williams"s last play Small Craft Warnings at the New Theatre New York in 1972. Other stage appearances included Brian Friel"s The Mundy Scheme in New York in 1969 and as John Adams in the nationwide tour of the musical 1776.
He died in Manhattan New York City in 1999, aged 67.