Career
His most famous roles were those of Disney"s Darby O"Gill and the Little People and as Finian McLonergan in the Original Broadway production of the musical Finian"s Rainbow. (the film version, made in 1968, had Fred Astaire in the role) On screen he played Fiona"s father Andrew in the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer musical Brigadoon. His last ten years were spent in retirement.
He died in 1970 in Belfast at the age of 84.