Name Albert Sharpe | Role Film actor | |
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Movies Darby O'Gill and the Little, Portrait of Jennie, Brigadoon, Adventure in Balti, You Never Can Tell Similar People Lawrence Edward Watkin, Robert Stevenson, William Dieterle, Alan Jay Lerner, Vincente Minnelli | ||
Albert sharpe northern irish actor
Albert Sharpe (15 April 1885 – 13 February 1970) was an Irish stage and film actor. His most famous roles were those of Darby O'Gill in Disney's Darby O'Gill and the Little People and as Finian McLonergan in the Original Broadway production of the musical Finian's Rainbow. (the film version, made in 1968, had Fred Astaire in the role.) On screen he played Fiona's father Andrew in the MGM musical Brigadoon. He was also a member of the Abbey Players. His last ten years were spent in retirement. He died in 1970 in Belfast at the age of 84.
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Filmography
Actor
1960
The Day They Robbed the Bank of England as
Albert Tosher Sparrow
1959
Darby O'Gill and the Little People as
Darby O'Gill
1959
The Magical World of Disney (TV Series) as
Darby O'Gill
- I Captured the King of the Leprechauns (1959) - Darby O'Gill
1954
Brigadoon as
Andrew Campbell
1952
Face to Face as
First Mate Brown ('The Secret Sharer')
1951
You Never Can Tell as
Grandpa Hathaway
1951
The Highwayman as
Forsythe
1951
Royal Wedding as
James Ashmond
1950
The Bigelow Theatre (TV Series)
- Kerry Fallon (1950)
1949
Adventure in Baltimore as
Mr. Fletcher
1948
Portrait of Jennie as
Moore
1948
The Return of October as
Vince the Tout
1948
Up in Central Park as
Timothy Moore
1947
Odd Man Out as
Bus Conductor (uncredited)
1946
I See a Dark Stranger as
Irish Landlord
Soundtrack
1959
Darby O'Gill and the Little People (performer: "The Wishing Song")
Archive Footage
2008
The Age of Believing: The Disney Live Action Classics (TV Movie documentary) as
Darby O'Gill
References
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