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T. P. McKenna

Born in Mullagh, County Cavan, Ireland, Thomas Patrick 'T. P.' McKenna was a distinguished character actor of film and TV and a prolific stage actor. He made his stage debut in "Summer and Smoke" by Tennessee Williams at the Pike Theatre in Dublin in 1954 and his film debut in the 1960 film The Night Fighters. Film credits included Straw Dogs, Ulysses, Perfect Friday, Villain, The Charge of the Light Brigade, Red Scorpion and Valmont, whilst his TV credits included Bleak House, Inspector Morse, Doctor Who, Casualty, Ballykissangel and Lovejoy.

Known For: Acting

Born: Mullagh, County Cavan, Ireland, 1929-09-07

Died: 2011-02-13

Film

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1960	The Siege of Sidney Street	Lapidos	20
2	1961	Freedom to Die	Mike	52
3	1961	Johnny Nobody	Garda	65
4	1962	The Quare Fellow	Walsh	58
5	1964	Downfall		67
6	1964	Girl with Green Eyes	The Priest	66
7	1965	Deirdre		0
8	1965	Ferry Cross the Mersey	Jack Hanson	61
9	1965	Young Cassidy	Tom	63
10	1967	Ulysses	Buck Mulligan	60
11	1968	The Charge of the Light Brigade	William Russel	61
12	1969	Blood of the Lamb	Joe Katz	0
13	1969	Anne of the Thousand Days	Norris	71
14	1970	The 5th Day of Peace	Nick	52
15	1970	The Rivals	Sir Lucius O'Trigger	60
16	1970	The Beast in the Cellar	Det. Chief Sup. Paddick	47
17	1970	Perfect Friday	Smith	63
18	1971	Percy	Meet The People Compere	40
19	1971	Villain	Frank Fletcher	63
20	1971	Straw Dogs	Maj. John Scott	72
21	1973	Lady Killer	Jack Hardisty	67
22	1973	A Warm December	Man (uncredited)	64
23	1974	The Changeling	Tomazo de Piracquo	70
24	1974	Percy's Progress	London News Editor	36
25	1975	All Creatures Great and Small	Soames	66
26	1975	The Next Victim	Frampton	0
27	1976	Stones	Harvey Fenton-Jones	0
28	1976	Beasts: Baby	Dick Pummery	0
29	1977	Love Lies Bleeding	Geoffrey	0
30	1977	A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man	Simon Dedalus	60
31	1978	A Child's Voice	Ainsley Rupert Macreadie	100
32	1978	Exposure	Dan	0
33	1979	The Outsider	John Russell	56
34	1979	Deasey (Desperate)	FG	0
35	1980	Silver Dream Racer	Bank Manager	54
36	1980	Pasmore	Helen's husband	0
37	1981	Random Moments in a May Garden	Digby	0
38	1982	Crimes	Melvyn	0
39	1982	Britannia Hospital	Theatre Surgeon	63
40	1983	The Scarlet and the Black	Himmler	70
41	1983	To the Lighthouse	Augustus Carmichael	54
42	1984	Moving on the Edge	Liam	0
43	1984	Memed My Hawk	Dursan	50
44	1984	Give Us a Break: Hustle Bustle Toil and Muscle	Dennis Naylor	0
45	1985	The Doctor and the Devils	O'Connor	63
46	1986	Strong Medicine	Dr. Sweeting	70
47	1988	Unreported Incident	Michael	0
48	1988	Pascali's Island	Dr. Hogan	64
49	1988	Doctor Who: The Greatest Show in the Galaxy	Captain Cook	74
50	1988	Red Scorpion	General Vortek	60
51	1989	Valmont	Baron	67
52	1989	Miss Marple: A Caribbean Mystery	Dr. Grahame	65
53	1990	Shoot to Kill	Chief Constable Sir John Harmon	0
54	1991	Events at Drimaghleen	Father Sallins	0
55	1992	The Law Lord	Judge Selwyn	0
56	2000	Longitude	Edmund Burke	73
57	2000	Monarch	Henry VIII	60
58	2003	Mantrap – Straw Dogs: The Final Cut	Self - Actor / Major John Scott	70
59	2003	The Boys & Girl from County Clare	The Announcer	60
60	2004	The Libertine	Black Rod	59
61		The World of James Joyce: His Life & Work	Self - Narrator	0

Television

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1951	Hallmark Hall of Fame	Soames	86
2	1959	No Hiding Place		37
3	1961	The Avengers	Grant	77
4	1962	Dr. Finlay's Casebook		60
5	1962	The Saint	Tony	73
6	1963	Doctor Who	The Captain	79
7	1964	The Wednesday Play	John Joe Moran	45
8	1965	The Troubleshooters	Geoffrey Arles	50
9	1965	BBC Play of the Month	Sir Lucius O'Trigger	50
10	1965	BBC Play of the Month	Kommissarov	50
11	1965	BBC Play of the Month	Tomazo de Piracquo	50
12	1967	Callan		70
13	1967	Man in a Suitcase		70
14	1970	Manhunt	Louis Sampere	65
15	1971	Jason King		73
16	1971	Justice	Supt. George Lester	60
17	1972	Crown Court		54
18	1972	Crown Court	Henry Burnett	54
19	1973	Thriller	Jack Hardisty	66
20	1973	Thriller	Frampton	66
21	1974	Napoleon and Love		0
22	1974	Playhouse	Harvey Fenton-Jones	70
23	1974	Playhouse	Digby	70
24	1974	Fall of Eagles	Count Conrad von Hotzendorf	68
25	1974	Father Brown		66
26	1975	The Sweeney	Det. Supt. Grant	77
27	1975	The Venturers		0
28	1975	Looking for Clancy		0
29	1975	Quiller	Buchanan	0
30	1975	Rumpole of the Bailey		71
31	1976	The Duchess of Duke Street		78
32	1976	Beasts	Dick Pummery	70
33	1977	Target		65
34	1978	Blake's 7	Sarkoff	72
35	1978	Holocaust	Blobel	74
36	1979	Minder	J.J.Mooney	68
37	1980	Lady Killers	Sir Hardinge Giffard Q.C.	50
38	1981	Levkas Man	Holroyd	0
39	1981	The Manions of America	Harry Clement	55
40	1983	Agatha Christie's Partners in Crime		61
41	1985	Bleak House	Harold Skimpole	60
42	1986	Lovejoy	Bertram Montserrat	73
43	1986	Casualty	Arthur Jackson	61
44	1986	Casualty	Dr. Archie Whitlock	61
45	1988	The Modern World: Ten Great Writers	Citizen	0
46	1988	The Play on One	Michael Flynn	60
47	1988	Jack the Ripper	O'Connor	71
48	1990	Shoot to Kill	Chief Constable Sir John Hermon	55
49	1992	Heartbeat	Michael O'Leary	71
50	1993	Scarlet and Black	Marquis de la Mole	63
51	1994	Liberation	Lloyd George, P.M. of England	78
52	1996	Testament: The Bible in Animation	God (voice)	64
53	1998	Kings in Grass Castles	Lord Dunraven	100
54	2000	Longitude	Edmund Burke	70
55	2001	Waking the Dead	Phil Brown	72