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Joseph Tomelty(1911-1995)

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Joseph Tomelty in Meet Mr. Lucifer (1953)
An atomic scientist is found floating in a river with a bullet in his back and a radioactive halo around his body. The radioactivity has put him seven-and-a-half seconds ahead of us in time. He teams up with a reporter to stop his evil double from destroying his experiments in artificial tungsten.
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Le mort frappe à la porte (1955)
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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. He initially followed in his father's footsteps as a house painter. Early on, life on the stage might have seemed inconceivable because of a noticeable stutter. He thus began his working career employed as a painter at Belfast's Harland and Wolff Shipyards, also attending Belfast Technical College. After being inspired by a performance of "Juno and the Paycock" by the Abbey Theatre Company, he became involved with the St. Peter's Players in 1937, making his first mark on the stage. The following year, he wrote a comedic radio play ("Barnum is Right") and in 1940 became a founding member of the Belfast Group Theatre. While acting as the company's General Manager from 1942 to 1951, he later reflected that his tasks also routinely included those of "booking clerk, ticket collector, cloak room attendant, sweeper up, scene painter, programme seller, chucker out and actor" (Drama, March 1953).

In addition to eight plays (of which his "All Souls' Night", a play about greed, ambition and the effects of poverty, is regarded as a classic of Irish literature) and two novels, the versatile Tomelty wrote and acted in "The McCooey's", a weekly radio serial about working class life, broadcast by BBC Northern Ireland between 1948 and 1954. He also sidelined as a busy character actor in British and American films, including such prestige productions as Huit heures de sursis (1947), Chaussure à son pied (1954), Moby Dick (1956) and Atlantique, latitude 41° (1958). Tomelty's writing career came to an end after he sustained injuries in a car crash in England while filming La Croisée des destins (1956), though he continued to appear in occasional films until 1964 and remained a fixture in Northern Irish theatre.
BornMarch 5, 1911
DiedJune 7, 1995(84)
BornMarch 5, 1911
DiedJune 7, 1995(84)
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Known for

Atlantique, latitude 41° (1958)
Atlantique, latitude 41°
7.9
  • Dr. William O'Loughlin
  • 1958
Moby Dick (1956)
Moby Dick
7.3
  • Peter Coffin
  • 1956
Brian Aherne, Cornel Wilde, and Jean Wallace in Lancelot chevalier de la reine (1963)
Lancelot chevalier de la reine
5.7
  • Sir Kaye
  • 1963
Charles Laughton, Brenda de Banzie, and John Mills in Chaussure à son pied (1954)
Chaussure à son pied
7.7
  • Jim Heeler
  • 1954

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Actor



  • The Singing Bird
    TV Movie
    • Aneas
    • 1972
  • Le Spectre maudit (1964)
    Le Spectre maudit
    5.9
    • Sir Giles Fordyke
    • 1964
  • Brian Aherne, Cornel Wilde, and Jean Wallace in Lancelot chevalier de la reine (1963)
    Lancelot chevalier de la reine
    5.7
    • Sir Kaye
    • 1963
  • Bob Dylan, David Warner, Ursula Howells, Reg Lye, and Maureen Pryor in The Madhouse on Castle Street (1963)
    BBC Sunday-Night Play
    8.5
    TV Series
    • Doherty
    • 1963
  • Nigel Patrick in Zéro un Londres (1962)
    Zéro un Londres
    8.5
    TV Series
    • Uncle George
    • 1963
  • The Sword in the Web (1962)
    The Sword in the Web
    TV Series
    • Drunk
    • 1962
  • The Cheaters (1960)
    The Cheaters
    7.3
    TV Series
    • Professor Kayle
    • 1962
  • Johnny Nobody (1961)
    Johnny Nobody
    6.4
    • Spectator in Courtroom (uncredited)
    • 1961
  • No Hiding Place (1959)
    No Hiding Place
    7.4
    TV Series
    • Doc Finney
    • 1961
  • Ian Hendry in Police Surgeon (1960)
    Police Surgeon
    8.0
    TV Series
    • Murphy
    • 1960
  • Le jour où l'on dévalisa la Banque d'Angleterre (1960)
    Le jour où l'on dévalisa la Banque d'Angleterre
    6.6
    • Cohoun
    • 1960
  • Un homme pour le bagne (1960)
    Un homme pour le bagne
    7.0
    • Furnisher Steele
    • 1960
  • Bud Flanagan, Jimmy Gold, Teddy Knox, Charlie Naughton, and Jimmy Nervo in Life Is a Circus (1960)
    Life Is a Circus
    7.8
    • Joe Winter
    • 1960
  • Next to No Wife
    TV Movie
    • Canon Fergus Brodie
    • 1959
  • Armchair Theatre (1956)
    Armchair Theatre
    7.5
    TV Series
    • Jimsey Barner
    • 1959

Writer



  • The Singing Bird
    TV Movie
    • radio play
    • 1972
  • Armchair Theatre (1956)
    Armchair Theatre
    7.5
    TV Series
    • play
    • 1959

Additional Crew



  • James Mason in Huit heures de sursis (1947)
    Huit heures de sursis
    7.6
    • advisor: Irish
    • 1947

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  • Born
    • March 5, 1911
    • Portaferry, County Down, Northern Ireland, UK
  • Died
    • June 7, 1995
    • Belfast, Northern Ireland, UK(undisclosed)
  • Spouse
    • ?(2 children)

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    Father of writer and director Roma Tomelty and actress Frances Tomelty, first wife of Sting.

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