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Joseph Tomelty (5 March 1911 – 7 June 1995) [1] was an Irish actor, playwright, novelist, short-story writer and theatre manager. He worked in film, television, radio and on the stage, [2] starring in Sam Thompson's 1960 play Over the Bridge.
Joseph Tomelty, actor, playwright, novelist, theatre manager: born Portaferry, Co Down 5 March 1911; married 1942 Lena Milligan (two daughters); died Belfast 7 June 1995.
Joseph Tomelty. Actor: A Night to Remember. The distinctively white-haired, bushy-browed Northern Irish novelist, playwright and character actor, Joseph Tomelty was born the eldest of seven children in the small fishing village of Portaferry, County Down.
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Tomelty, Joseph (1911–95), actor and playwright, was born 12 March 1911 in Portaferry, Co. Down, son of James Tomelty, house painter and keen traditional musician, and Mary Tomelty (née Drumgoole).
Jun 5, 2020 · At the height of his fame in the early 1950s, there was no more prominent or popular a figure in Irish theatre than the actor, playwright, novelist and theatre manager Joseph Tomelty, the 25th...
Apr 18, 2015 · Author, Actor, Playwright. 1911-1995. Joseph (Joe) Tomelty was born in Portaferry, Co Down, on March 5th 1911. The eldest of seven children, he left the local primary school at 12 to be apprenticed to his father’s trade of housepainter.
Joseph Tomelty was a playwright, novelist and actor. Born in Portaferry, Co Down, he left school at 12 to be apprenticed to his father’s trade as a house painter, then moved to Belfast to work as a painter in the Harland and Wolff shipyard.
