Frank Kelly

Died on the 18th anniversary of Father Ted (1995) co-star Dermot Morgan's death. Morgan died on 28 February 1998, Kelly on the same date in 2016. Both actors died on a Sunday.
Scored a UK Top 30 hit in December 1983 when the humourous 'Christmas Countdown' (a spoof of The Twelve Days of Christmas) reached 26 in the UK singles chart. He later received a letter from the Queen explaining how the record had given her "great pleasure".
Enjoyed playing up to his "Father Jack" character's reputation for the amusement of autograph hunters.
He has a Bachelor of Law from University College Dublin and despite being called to the Bar he has never practiced law in Ireland.
Reader of the Audiobook of "Well Remembered Days" by Arthur Matthews.

It took me two hours to be made up as Father Jack. I found it repulsive. If I was in costume, nobody would sit beside me. And I don't blame them. I had vaseline coming out of my ears as discharge, incontinence marks on my trousers, prosthetic teeth which I took out to eat, and one blind eye with an opaque lens.
I like humour - but I'm very suspicious of people who laugh all the time, because they never listen to what you're saying, they always - have another agenda and they generally have no sense of humour. The most untrustworthy body language I know is that of the person who laughs all the time. That terrifies me. People with no sense or a very limited sense of humour I am very wary of too, because it's not a sign of great intelligence to be without a sense of humour. If you've no sense of irony you haven't a great decision making capacity because you must see the possibilities of the downside of any decision. Without perspective you can't have any wisdom, so it frightens me when I meet captains of industry or whatever who have virtually no sense of humour. That's the kind of person I find dismaying.

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