Tony Doyle (actor)
Tony Doyle (16 January 1942 – 28 January 2000) was an Irish television and film actor. He first came to prominence playing a liberal catholic priest - Father Sheehy - in RTÉ's iconic rural drama The Riordans. He appeared in such popular shows as Coronation Street, Between The Lines, 1990 and Ballykissangel, and won an Irish Film and Television Academy Award for best leading performance for his role in the 1998 miniseries Amongst Women.
Doyle starred as Tom French in 1997's I Went Down. One of his earlier film roles saw Tony as the head of the SAS, Colonel Hadley, in the 1982 British film Who Dares Wins. He was the father of actress Susannah Doyle.
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“To the man who loves art for its own sake,... it is frequently in its least important and lowliest manifestations that the keenest pleasure is to be derived.”
—Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859–1930)