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Ronan O'Casey
Canadian actor and producer (1922–2012)
Ronan O'Casey (18 August 1922 – 12 April 2012) was a Canadian actor and producer.[1]
Early life
[edit]O'Casey was born in Montreal, Quebec, to poet father, Michael Casey, and actress mother, Margaret Sheehy, a Dubliner who had co-starred with the young James Joyce in his first stage role. At the age of eight Ronan O'Casey began acting in his mother's Montreal theatre company and, after tours in theatre and vaudeville, he moved to Dublin and then to London.
O'Casey was at one time a leading ice hockey player in his native Montreal, skills which he was able to put to use during the filming of children's adventure serial The New Forest Rustlers, in which he played the leader of a gang planning to steal a priceless Rembrandt.[2]
Career
[edit]O'Casey found early success in post-war films such as The Mudlark (1950), Talk of a Million (1951) and Norman Wisdom's Trouble in Store (1953), going on to play the prisoner of Room 101 in 1984 and the sergeant in Nicholas Ray's war film Bitter Victory (1957). While starring in the West End play Detective Story he met actress and singer Louie Ramsay, whom he married in 1956.[3][4]
O'Casey's comedy talents brought him
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Ingo Dannhorn
Ingo Dannhorn has concertised at the most well-known music centres and concert halls, such as the Herkulessaal in Munich, the Great Hall of the Musikverein in Vienna, the Seoul Arts Center, the Hermitage in St Petersburg, in Brasilia, Shanghai, Venice, Sydney, Chongqin, and Berlin, has collaborated with Kurt Eichhorn, Dennis Russell Davies conducted his debut at the Musikverein Vienna, and Kurt Masur has expressed high praise for his musical abilities. Gerhard Oppitz considers him among the “most remarkable pianists of his generation: he has fabulous technical skills, and an ideal combination of intelligence and highly developed sensitivity to tonal nuance”.
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