Born: March 29th, 1935
Died: September 5th, 2025
Irish actor Derry Power, who has died aged 90, had a long and successful career, in Ireland and abroad, characterised by an unusual versatility.
Starting as a comedy act when aged just 17 in his native Youghal, Co Cork – in a Christmas show at the Town Hall in the early 1950s – his last role was in 2016 in a two-hand stage play with Des Keogh, The Quiet Land, by Malachy McKenna.
Power was a member of the Abbey Theatre’s resident company before appearing in TV series in the UK, including some of the best-known British sitcoms of the 1960s and 1970s, and then in Irish-language television at RTÉ in the 1980s, as well as undertaking many other types of work.
After the 1980s, he again won renown in theatre.
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