2005 Cast as Grandpa Joe in Tim Burtons' remake of Roald Dahl's classic tale "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory"
2002 Co-stared with Milo O'Shea in David Blair's "Mystics"
2000 Had featured role in the British comedy "Greenfingers" directed by Joel Hershman
1998 Breakthrough screen role at age 69, as the high-strung cohort of Ian Bannen's schemer in "Waking Ned Devine"; nominated by both the Golden Satellite Awards and the Screen Actors Guild Awards for his o
1997 Appeared in "The Matchmaker," starring Janeane Garofalo
1995 Played a priest in Peter Yates' "The Run of the Country"
1994 Offered a fine support turn opposite Albert Finney in Suri Krishnamma's "A Man of No Importance"
1992 Portrayed the grandfather in Mike Newell's underrated "Into the West"
1991 Played recurring role of Paddy in episodes of the British comedy series "2 Point 4 Children"
1989 Starred as a weathered hill farmer in Aislung Walsh's directorial debut "Joyriders"
1986 Co-starred with Walter Matthau in Roman Polanski's "Pirates"
1984 Had featured role in Terence Young's "The Jigsaw Man"
1983 Acted role of Balthazar in the BBC production of Shakespeare's "The Comedy of Errors"
1982 Had featured role in the London Weekend Television series sitcom "Whoops Apocalypse"
1980 Co-starred in the British comedy series "Cowboys"
1977 Appeared as the Dean of Studies in Joseph Strick's film adaptation of James Joyce's "A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man"
1977 - 1981 Played Albert Riddle, a one-armed dishwasher in "Robin's Nest", a spin-off of "Man About the House" (aired in syndication in the USA in 1983)
1975 Most memorable television work includes the cult British TV comedy "Fawlty Towers" with John Cleese
1973 Was featured in the British TV series "Oh Father"
1972 Starred in the BBC series "Tales from the Lazy Acre"
1970 First US film, "Quackser Fortune Has a Cousin in the Bronx"
1966 Landed a role in the TV series "Doctor Who"
1958 Appeared in the film "Dublin Nightmare"
1956 Made uncredited feature debut as a cop in "The Wrong Man"
Began career on stage at The Gate Theatre in Dublin
Appeared in the world premiere of Brendan Behan's play "The Quare Fellow"; also acted in the 1962 feature adaptation
Toured Europe in George Bernard Shaw's plays "Candida" and "Mrs. Warren's Profession"
Starred in Samuel Beckett's one-man piece "Krapp's Last Tape," in New York's Lincoln Centre as well as in Chicago and Melbourne, Australia
