Sean McClory

Personal Info

Know For

Acting

Gender

Male

Birthday

1924-03-08 (79 years old)

Deathday

2003-12-10

Place of Birth

Dublin, Ireland

Sean McClory

Biography

Sean McClory was born in Dublin, Ireland, but spent his early life in Galway. He was the son of Hugh Patrick, an architect and civil engineer, and Mary Margaret Ball, who had been a model. Sean decided to become an actor and joined Dublin's renowned Abbey Theater (also known as the National Theater of Ireland, opened in 1904). He rose through the ranks playing in productions of the works of such authors as William Butler Yeats and George Bernard Shaw, and soon began to play leads mostly in comedies (popular through most of the 1940s and into the 1950s). When comedies began to fade from the theater after World War II, McClory turned an eye t...

Acting

1952

The Quiet Man

as Owen Glynn

1954

Them!

as Maj. Kibbee

1993

Body Bags

as Minister

1967

The Gnome-Mobile

as Horatio Quaxton

1967

1953

Charade

as Jack Stuydevant

1966

Follow Me, Boys!

as Edward White, Sr.

1953

Island in the Sky

as Frank Lovatt, Dooley's co-pilot

1953

Man in the Attic

as Constable #1

1964

Cheyenne Autumn

as Dr. O'Carberry

1955

Moonfleet

as Elzevir Block

1955

The Long Gray Line

as Dinny Maher

1986

My Chauffeur

as O'Brien

1979

Roller Boogie

as Jammer Delany

1953

Plunder of the Sun

as Jefferson

1961

Valley of the Dragons

as Michael Denning

1952

Les Miserables

as Bamtasbois (uncredited)

1955

1954

Ring of Fear

as Dublin O'Malley

1951

Lorna Doone

as Charleworth Doone

1968

Bandolero!

as Robbie O'Hare

1967

1975

Kate McShane

as Pat McShane

1955

I Cover the Underworld

as Gunner O'Hara / John O'Hara

1947

Dick Tracy's Dilemma

as Officer Dillon (uncredited)

1948

Beyond Glory

as Barney

1957

1953

Niagara

as Sam (uncredited)

1951

1956

Diane

as Count Michel Montgomery

1971

The Day of the Wolves

as The Sheriff

1951

1987

The Dead

as Mr. Grace

1954

The Child

as Reverend Smith

1949

Roughshod

as Fowler (as Shawn McGlory)

1947

Dick Tracy Meets Gruesome

as Officer Carney (uncredited)

1987

Young Harry Houdini

as Sean O'Casey

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