Name Tony Rohr Children Louise Rohr | Role Actor | |
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Movies Leap Year, Les Miserables, The Double, High Spirits, I Hired a Contract Killer Similar People Pauline Collins, Anand Tucker, Kate Alderton, John Alderton, Neil Jordan Profiles | ||
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Tony Rohr (born 1940) is an Irish actor.
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Career
Rohr played Grandad in The Lakes, Solomon Featherstone in Middlemarch, he has also been in The Bill, The Long Good Friday, McVicar, Softly, Softly, Crown Court, Casualty, Lovejoy, I Hired a Contract Killer, Cracker, The Vet, Father Ted, Waking the Dead, Hustle and Inspector George Gently. He played the railway station master in the 2010 film Leap Year. He played the IRA Brigade Commander in Yorkshire TV's Harry's Game. He recently played Anthony, the estranged father of the title character, Derek, in the series of the same name written and directed by Ricky Gervais. They are reunited in the climatic final scenes of the series, showing Gervais' character's capacity for kindness and forgiveness.
Personal life
He has a daughter Louise with the actress Pauline Collins. Collins gave Louise up for adoption when Collins was 23 years old and a penniless, single mother. They were reunited 22 years later. Collins's book, Letter To Louise, documents these events.