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Dec 19, 2009 · CULTURE SHOCK:The great Donal McCann subsumed his roles into a vast, private, unreachable darkness.Now, 10 years after his death, it finally feels as if he is letting go, writes FINTAN O'TOOLE ON ...
Feb 16, 2011 · February 16, 2011. By Staff Reporter. By Joseph Hurley. One of Ireland’s finest actors, Donal McCann, 56, died on Sunday morning in Dublin from pancreatic cancer. Word of McCann’s not unexpected death reached the cast of Brian Friel’s version of Anton Chekhov’s "Uncle Vanya" as they were about to begin their final performance of the ...
Sep 28, 2019 · The first time I saw McCann onstage was in a Gate Theatre production of Juno And The Paycock, playing Seán O’Casey’s poetic wastrel Captain Boyle. Little more than a decade later, he would be dead at the ridiculously early age of 56, from pancreatic cancer.
Jul 9, 2022 · The Steward of Christendom had its Irish premiere at the Gate 27 years ago, shortly after the play opened in London, with Donal McCann in the title role. McCann’s performance is one that exists ...
Donal McCann was an Irish stage, film, and television actor best known for his roles in the works of Brian Friel and for his lead role in John Huston's last film, The Dead. 2. Donal McCann joined the Abbey Players in the late 1960s. 3. Donal McCann's career included parts in many plays from the Irish literary canon, including Tarry Flynn, The ...
Jul 24, 1999 · Donal McCann was taken to the theatre and to the races from an early age. A cutting, now sere with age, from the Irish Press of April 4th, 1962 reads: "Donal McCann (18), son of the playwright ...
Donal McCann Born and raised in Dublin, McCann was the son of politician and playwright John J McCann (who twice served as Lord Mayor of Dublin) and his former schoolteacher wife. After a brief go at studying architecture, he worked as a copy boy for the EVENING PRESS while taking acting lessons and performing in amateur theatricals and in bit ...
