Name Patrick Bedford Role Actor | Movies Up the Down Staircase | |
Awards Outer Critics Circle Award for Best Performances Nominations Tony Award for Best Lead Actor in a Play Similar People Donal Donnelly, Robert Mulligan, Eamon Kelly | ||
Up the Down Staircase (1967) Official Trailer - Patrick Bedford, Sandy Dennis Movie HD
Patrick Bedford (May 30, 1932, Dublin, Ireland – November 20, 1999; New York City, United States) was an Irish stage actor. He began his career in the 1950s at the Gate Theatre in Dublin, including productions of Chekhov, Shaw and Shakespeare, and later worked on the stage and in television in England. He was in the original stage production of Philadelphia, Here I Come! by Brian Friel, at the Gaiety Theatre Dublin, later in London and then New York which earned him a Tony Award nomination in 1965 for Best Actor (with Donal Donnelly). and an Outer Circle Critics Award.
He had small parts in Orson Welles's film Chimes at Midnight (1965) and in 1967 he starred with Sandy Dennis in the film Up the Down Staircase about life in a NYC high school, and in The Next Man (1976).
He mainly worked in the theatre in the US on both the east and west coast, but mainly in New York City off Broadway. He was in the premiere of Tennessee Williams's last play Small Craft Warnings at the New Theatre New York in 1972. Other stage appearances included Brian Friel's The Mundy Scheme in New York in 1969 and as John Adams in the nationwide tour of the musical 1776. He died November 20, 1999 in Manhattan New York City of cancer six weeks after entering the hospital. He was 67.