Dermot Crowley

{{short description|Irish stage, film and television actor (born 1947)|bot=PearBOT 5}}

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| name = Dermot Crowley

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| birth_place = Cork, Ireland

| birth_date = {{birth date and age|df=y|1947|3|19}}

| occupation = Actor

| years_active = 1976–present

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Dermot Crowley (born 19 March 1947) is an Irish stage, film and television actor.

Life and career

=Theatre=

Crowley's stage work has included a leading role in an Olivier Award winning production of Conor McPherson's The Weir, which played in the United Kingdom, Ireland and the United States in the late 1990s.{{cite news|title=Fears Spill Over the Dam in 'The Weir'|url=https://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/latimes/access/40214348.html?dids=40214348:40214348&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT&type=current&date=Apr+02%2C+1999&author=MICHAEL+PHILLIPS&pub=Los+Angeles+Times&desc=Theater+Review%3B+Fears+Spill+Over+the+Dam+in+%27The+Weir%27&pqatl=google |archive-url=https://archive.today/20120713043727/http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/latimes/access/40214348.html?dids=40214348:40214348&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT&type=current&date=Apr+02,+1999&author=MICHAEL+PHILLIPS&pub=Los+Angeles+Times&desc=Theater+Review;+Fears+Spill+Over+the+Dam+in+'The+Weir'&pqatl=google |url-status=dead |archive-date=13 July 2012 |work=Los Angeles Times|date=2 April 1999|access-date=6 April 2010|first=Michael|last=Phillips}} His first television role was playing George Bernard Shaw in the UK TV series Victorian Scandals in 1976.{{cite web|last1=Crowley|first1=Dermot|title=Mr.|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0390790|publisher=IMDb|access-date=21 December 2015}}

In 2011, he appeared in The Cripple of Inishmaan with the Druid Theatre Company at the Kirk Douglas Theatre in Los Angeles. He won the L.A. Drama Critics Circle Award for Featured Performance.

=Film and television=

Crowley played General Crix Madine in Return of the Jedi.{{cite news|title=McCarter's holiday tradition continues|url=http://www.mycentraljersey.com/article/20081216/ENTERTAINMENT05/81216033/-1/newsfront|publisher=MyCentralJersey.com|date=16 December 2008|access-date=6 April 2010|archive-date=22 December 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151222162750/http://www.mycentraljersey.com/article/20081216/ENTERTAINMENT05/81216033/-1/newsfront|url-status=dead}} He played Sgt. François Duval in Son of the Pink Panther. Crowley went on to appear in Call Red, Father Ted (as Father Liam Deliverance), Dangerfield, Jonathan Creek, A Touch of Frost, Holby City, The Bill, Midsomer Murders and Luther, among others.{{citation needed|date=January 2018}} In 1987 Crowley auditioned for the role of the Seventh Doctor in Doctor Who. Footage of his screen test was included on the special features of the DVD release of Time and the Rani.

Crowley also appeared as the crooked Mr. Simpson in The Adventure of the Clapham Cook, which was the very first episode of Agatha Christie's Poirot in 1989. He read the voice of Molloy on the Naxos 2003 Audiobook of Samuel Beckett's novel Molloy.{{cite web |last1=Naxos Audiobooks |title=Molloy [by Samuel Beckett, Read by Dermot Crowley & Sean Barrett, Unabridged] |url=https://naxosaudiobooks.com/molloy-unabridged/ |website=Naxos AudioBooks |access-date=29 December 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230610221822/https://naxosaudiobooks.com/molloy-unabridged/ |archive-date=June 10, 2023 |language=en |date=27 January 2016}}

He appeared in the feature film The Best Offer in 2013. In 2012 he starred in a new series Hunted for BBC One and HBO. He played George Ballard, an MI6 Spy Chief in episodes 4 and 5.{{cite web|url=http://www.radiotimes.com/episode/sp4zh/hunted--series-1---4-kismet|title=Hunted|work=Radio Times|access-date=29 June 2015}}

Crowley often appears on BBC radio in drama such as Mind's Eye. In 2013, he played Pat Whyte in Father Figure. In 2017, he played the role of Lazar Kaganovich in the critically acclaimed political satire, The Death of Stalin.