Occupation Film and stage actor | Years active 1900s–1950s | |
Died 21 October 1954, Dublin, Republic of Ireland Movies Scrooge, Captain Horatio Hornblower, Another Shore Similar Guy Green, Raoul Walsh, Brian Desmond Hurst, Charles Crichton | ||
Michael J. Dolan was born in 1884, he was an Irish actor known for Scrooge (1951), Captain Horatio Hornblower (1951) and Saints and Sinners (1949). He died on 21 October 1954 in Dublin, Ireland at the age of 70.
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He was a distinguished actor with the Abbey Theatre for many years where he appeared in many productions and in December 1923 he took over management from Lennox Robinson, during that time he was stage manager, general manager and director, his career with the Abbey can be seen in the Abbey Theatre Archives
During his acting career he appeared in numerous plays by Irish playwright Teresa Deevy, all of these were Abbey Theatre productions, The King of Spain's Daughter (1936), Katie Roche which toured to the Arts Theatre Cambridge, England and Temporal Powers (1937), The Knig of Spain's Daughter (1939), Katie Roche (1949), and Katie Roche (1953) this was played at the The Queen's Theatre, Dublin pending the rebuilding and enlargement of the Abbey Theatre.