Cast & creator
Patrick Drury
Best known for Midsomer Murders, Midsomer Murders, The Crown
Patrick Drury is a character actor best known for playing shopkeeper John O'Leary in the Channel 4 television comedy Father Ted. His film credits include the horror movie The Awakening (1980) starring Charlton Heston, and the 1984 comedy Laughterhouse (also known as Singleton's Pluck) with Ian Holm. He was previously married to actress Caroline Langrishe.
13
film credits
17
television credits
29
1975–2022 · acting roles
6.8
average across scored titles
Signature credits
Known for
Across film & television
Filmography (30)
Showing 30 of 30 credits
Midsomer Murders
Robin Wooliscroft
1997Midsomer Murders
Connor Simpson
1997
The Crown
Lord Chamberlain
2016
Inspector Morse
Frank McTeer
1987
Ripper Street
Col. Sir Edward Bradford
2012
Rumpole of the Bailey
Desmond Casterini
1975
The Ruth Rendell Mysteries
Chief Supt. Howard Fortune
1987
Soldier Soldier
Lt Col Mark Osbourne
1991
Screen One
Maj. Anthony Hamilton-Smith
1989
Shine on Harvey Moon
Adrian Horowitz
1982
I, Claudius
Courier
1976
Father Ted
John O'Leary
1995
In Suspicious Circumstances
Jack Derham
1991
Murder in Suburbia
Kieran Doyle
2004
Moon and Son
Inspector Sardou
1992
The Beiderbecke Connection
Ivan
1988
The Awakening
Paul Whittier
1980
The Men's Room
James Walton
1991
Lennon Naked
Apple Accountant
2010
Florence Nightingale
Henry Nicholson
1985
RSC Live: Timon of Athens
Flavius
2019
Up Line
Brian O'Brien
1987
A Breed of Heroes
Maj. Anthony Hamilton-Smith
1994
Coriolanus
Comminius
1997
RSC Live: Antony & Cleopatra
Lepidus
2017
RSC Live: Titus Andronicus
Marcus Andronicus
2017
Queen Marie of Romania
Woodrow Wilson
2019
Shoot to Kill
Detective Inspector
1990
Adnan Syed: Overturned
Director of Photography
2022
Laughterhouse
David Wolmer
1984