{{Short description|Irish actor (1918–1980)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} {{Infobox person | name = Dermot Kelly | image = Actor_Dermot_Kelly.jpg | birth_name = | birth_date = {{birth date|df=yes|1918|05|15}} | birth_place = Enniskillen, County Fermanagh, Northern Ireland | death_date = {{death date and age|df=yes|1980|02|18|1918|05|15}} | death_place = Dublin, Ireland | restingplace = | othername = | occupation = Actor | yearsactive = | spouse = | website = | awards = }} '''''Dermot Kelly'' ''' (15 May 1918 – 18 February 1980) was a Northern Irish actor often in comic roles, in films and on TV.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b9f0bdce1|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190209062341/http://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b9f0bdce1|url-status=dead|archive-date=9 February 2019|title=Dermot Kelly|website=BFI}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.allmovie.com/artist/dermot-kelly-p37504|title=Dermot Kelly | Movies and Filmography|website=AllMovie}}</ref> He achieved popularity as a recurring tramp character, sidekick to Arthur Haynes's vagrant, in TV's The Arthur Haynes Show in the early 1960s.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://associatedtelevision.network/programmes/arthur-haynes/|title=Arthur Haynes|date=July 20, 2018}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.screenonline.org.uk/people/id/465520/index.html|title=BFI Screenonline: Speight, Johnny (1920-1998) Biography|website=www.screenonline.org.uk}}</ref> Previously on stage with Dublin's Abbey Theatre,<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.abbeytheatre.ie/archives/production_detail/1726|title=Drama at Inish - Is Life Worth Living? 1940 (Abbey) | Abbey Archives | Abbey Theatre - Amharclann na Mainistreach|website=Abbey Theatre}}</ref> he was in the original stage and film versions of Brendan Behan's ''The Quare Fellow'', in 1954 and 1962, respectively.<ref>{{Cite web |title=The Quare Fellow - PlayographyIreland |url=https://irishplayography.com/play?playid=31525 |access-date=2024-04-12 |language=en-GB}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b6b3b5732|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190929125140/https://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b6b3b5732|url-status=dead|archive-date=29 September 2019|title=The Quare Fellow (1962)|website=BFI}}</ref>
==Filmography== * ''Another Shore'' (1948) as Boxer * ''Home is the Hero'' (1959) as 2nd Pub Customer * ''Sally's Irish Rogue'' (1959) as McKeefry * ''Broth of a Boy'' (1959) as Tim * ''Breakout'' as O'Quinn * ''Devil's Bait'' (1959) as Mr. Love * ''Cover Girl Killer'' (1959) as Pop * ''Crooks Anonymous'' (1962) as Stanley * ''The Quare Fellow'' (1962) as Donnelly * ''The Wrong Arm of the Law'' (1963) as Misery Martin * ''Panic'' (1963) as Murphy * ''The Yellow Rolls-Royce'' (1965) as Marquess of Frinton's Jockey (uncredited) * ''Cup Fever'' (1965) as Bodger the Bootmender * ''The Plank'' (1967) as Milkman * ''Mrs. Brown, You've Got a Lovely Daughter'' (1968) as Con Man * ''Headline Hunters'' (1968) as Ernie * ''Subterfuge'' (1968) as Van Driver * ''Staircase'' (1969) as Gravedigger
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{{DEFAULTSORT:Kelly, Dermot}} Category:1918 births Category:1980 deaths Category:20th-century male actors from Northern Ireland Category:Irish male stage actors Category:Irish male film actors Category:Irish male television actors Category:People from Enniskillen Category:Actors from County Fermanagh