Dermot Kelly (actor)


Dermot Kelly was a Northern Irish actor often in comic roles, in films and on TV. 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. Previously on stage with Dublin's Abbey Theatre, he was in the original stage and film versions of Brendan Behan's The Quare Fellow, in 1954 and 1962, respectively.

Filmography

Another Shore as BoxerHome is the Hero as 2nd Pub CustomerSally's Irish Rogue as McKeefryBroth of a Boy as TimBreakout as O'QuinnDevil's Bait as Mr. LoveCover Girl Killer as PopCrooks Anonymous as StanleyThe Quare Fellow as DonnellyThe Wrong Arm of the Law as Misery MartinPanic as MurphyThe Yellow Rolls-Royce as Marquess of Frinton's Jockey Cup Fever as Bodger the BootmenderThe Plank as MilkmanMrs. Brown, You've Got a Lovely Daughter as Con ManHeadline Hunters as ErnieSubterfuge as Van DriverStaircase as Gravedigger