Patrick Malahide

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name = Patrick Malahide


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birthdate = March 24, 1945
birthplace = Berkshire

Patrick Malahide (born March 24, 1945) is an Anglo-Irish actor, who has played many major film and television roles.

Personal life

Malahide, real name Patrick Gerald Duggan, was born in Berkshire, the son of Irish immigrants, a cook mother and a school secretary father. [http://www.filmreference.com/film/86/Patrick-Malahide.html] He was educated at Douai School.

Career

He made his television debut in 1976, in an episode of "The Flight of the Heron", then in single episodes of "Sutherland's Law" and "The New Avengers" (1976) and ITV Playhouse (1977). He was then in an adaptation of "The Eagle of the Ninth", and his first film was "Sweeney 2" in the following year. In 1979 he began a memorable 9-year stint as Detective Sergeant Albert "Cheerful Charlie" Chisholm in popular TV series "Minder".

Since then, he has become a familiar face to screen audiences, often playing villains. His television appearances have included dramas such as "The Singing Detective" (1986) and "Middlemarch" (1994), and he played Ngaio Marsh's Inspector Roderick Alleyn in a 1993-94 series. His films include "Comfort and Joy" (1984), "A Month in the Country" (1987), and "Captain Corelli's Mandolin" (2001). In 1999 he made a small appearance in the introduction to the James Bond film "The World Is Not Enough" opposite Pierce Brosnan as a Swiss banker named Lachaise working in Bilbao. In 2008 he played Mr Ryder in a film of "Brideshead Revisited".

Filmography

References

External links

*imdb name|id=0538869|name=Patrick Malahide
* [http://www.patrickmalahide.net/ Official Site]