Frank Kelly (born 28 December 1938) is an Irish actor, singer and writer, whose career has covered television, radio, theatre, music, screenwriting and film. He played Father Jack Hackett in the sitcom Father Ted. He is the son of the cartoonist Charles E. Kelly.
Guy Medal, Rollo Davidson Prize, John von Neumann Theory Prize
Nominations
Outer Critics Circle Award for Outstanding Off-Broadway Musical
Movies
Tea With The Dead, Mrs. Brown's Boys D'Movie, Waiting for Dublin, The Deal, My Name Is Yu Ming, Cowboys & Angels, Evelyn, Rat, 35 Aside, War of the Buttons, 69 and Dead
TV Shows
Father Ted, Hall's Pictorial Weekly, Ballymagash
Star Sign
Capricorn
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Quote
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It took me two hours to be made up as Father Jack. I found it repulsive. If I was in costume, nobody would sit beside me. And I don't blame them. I had vaseline coming out of my ears as discharge, incontinence marks on my trousers, prosthetic teeth which I took out to eat, and one blind eye with an opaque lens.
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Fact
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Died on the 18th anniversary of Father Ted (1995) co-star Dermot Morgan's death. Morgan died on 28 February 1998, Kelly on the same date in 2016. Both actors died on a Sunday.
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Reader of the Audiobook of "Well Remembered Days" by Arthur Matthews.
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He has a Bachelor of Law from University College Dublin and despite being called to the Bar he has never practiced law in Ireland.
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Scored a UK Top 30 hit in December 1983 when the humourous 'Christmas Countdown' (a spoof of The Twelve Days of Christmas) reached 26 in the UK singles chart. He later received a letter from the Queen explaining how the record had given her "great pleasure".
$2 Million
