Person Open DS/UK/14357 Doyle; Tony (1942-2000); Irish actor Doyle Tony 1942-2000 Irish actor Male

Tony Doyle (16 January 1942 – 28 January 2000) was an Irish television and film actor. He first came to prominence playing a liberal catholic priest - Father Sheehy - in RTÉ's iconic rural drama The Riordans. He appeared in such popular shows as Coronation Street, Between The Lines, 1990 and Ballykissangel, and won an Irish Film and Television Academy Award for best leading performance for his role in the 1998 miniseries Amongst Women. Tony Doyle also appeared in the first Minder episode, "Gunfight at the OK Laundrette", playing a drunken Irishman. Doyle starred as Tom French in 1997's I Went Down. One of his earlier film roles saw Tony as the head of the SAS, Colonel Hadley, in the 1982 British film Who Dares Wins. He was the father of actress Susannah Doyle. International Standard Archival Authority Record for Corporate Bodies, Persons and Families - ISAAR(CPF) 2nd edition - ICA 2004 ISBN 2-9521932-2-3 National Council on Archives, Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997 Yes RAHdroberts 3/28/2014 Rachael.Fragola 3/1/2022 3b512f34-0bfe-4a3c-b8c8-ea930145f0d5