Chris Curran

Chris Curran (died 19 August 1996) was an Irish actor, singer and musician.

Born in Cork, Curran was four when he made his stage debut at the Cork Opera House in Frank Benson's touring production of Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream. He went on to study acting under Father Seamus O'Flynn at the Cork Shakespearean Company, otherwise known as "The Loft". He continued to perform at the Cork Opera House while studying engineering at University College Cork. A year later, and at short notice, he took the lead role in a broadcast of Henrik Ibsen's Peer Gynt which was produced by Tyrone Guthrie in his first collaboration with Ireland's national radio station.

For the next four decades, Curran enjoyed a varied career as a stage and screen actor, television narrator and pantomime performer.

Filmography Year Title Role Notes1965 Young Cassidy Man in Phoenix Park 1967 Ulysses Myles Crawford 1969 I Can't... I Can't 1977 A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man Auctioneer 1982 Cold River 1996 Moll Flanders Mazzawatti Butler