Dermot Kelly (actor)

Dermot Kelly (15 May 1918 – 18 February 1980) was a Northern Irish actor often in comic roles, in films and on TV.^[1][2] 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.^[3][4] Previously on stage with Dublin's Abbey Theatre,^[5] he was in the original stage and film versions of Brendan Behan's The Quare Fellow, in 1954 and 1962, respectively.^[6][7]

Dermot Kelly
Born	(1918-05-15)15 May 1918 Enniskillen, County Fermanagh, Northern Ireland
Died	18 February 1980(1980-02-18) (aged 61) Dublin, Ireland
Occupation	Actor

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