Dermot Kelly

Dermot Kelly (15 May 1918 – 18 February 1980) was a Northern Irish actor often in comic roles, in films and on TV. He achieved popularity as a recurring tramp character, sidekick to Arthur Haynes's vagrant, in TV's The Arthur Haynes Show in the early 1960s. Previously on stage with Dublin's Abbey Theatre, he was in the original stage and film versions of Brendan Behan's The Quare Fellow, in 1954 and 1962, respectively.

Filmography Another Shore (1948) as Boxer Home is the Hero (1959) as 2nd Pub Customer Sally's Irish Rogue (1959) as McKeefry Broth of a Boy (1959) as Tim Breakout as O'Quinn Devil's Bait (1959) as Mr. Love Cover Girl Killer (1959) as Pop Crooks Anonymous (1962) as Stanley The Quare Fellow (1962) as Donnelly The Wrong Arm of the Law (1963) as Misery Martin Panic (1963) as Murphy The Yellow Rolls-Royce (1965) as Marquess of Frinton's Jockey (uncredited) Cup Fever (1965) as Bodger the Bootmender The Plank (1967) as Milkman Mrs. Brown, You've Got a Lovely Daughter (1968) as Con Man Headline Hunters (1968) as Ernie Subterfuge (1968) as Van Driver Staircase (1969) as Gravedigger