Bosco Hogan
Bosco Hogan | |
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| Born | 1949 (age 74–75) |
John Bosco Hogan (born February 1949) is an Irish stage, film, and television actor.
He is well known as the character Dr. Michael Ryan on the television programme Ballykissangel.[1] He appeared in a minor role as convicted felon George Saden in John Boorman's film Zardoz (1974), but his first major film role was as Stephen Dedalus in Joseph Strick's A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (1977), a film adaptation of James Joyce's novel of the same name.[2] His later film credits include roles in The Outsider (1979), Screamtime (1983), In the Name of the Father (1993), Evelyn (2002) and King Arthur (2004).[3] On television he played Jonathan Harker in the 1977 TV version of Count Dracula with Louis Jourdan; Frederick, Duke of York in Prince Regent in 1979; and Edward Ferrars in the 1981 adaptation of Sense and Sensibility.[4] He was a senior policeman for several episodes of the television programme, The Chief (1995).[2]
Hogan appeared in the play A Cry from Heaven by Vincent Woods at the Abbey Theatre in the summer of 2005.[5] He portrayed St. John Fisher in the 2007 season of The Tudors television programme on the Showtime channel.[6] He played a cardinal once again in The Borgias (2011), as Cardinal Piccolomini.[1] Hogan also appears in Season 5 of the television series Vikings (History Channel, 2017) as Lord Abbot at Lindisfarne monastery and in its sequel series Vikings: Valhalla as Aethelred the Unready.[7] Hogan also appears in an episode of Tales of the Unexpected.
His distinctive voice has him regularly working on voiceovers for both advertising and corporate clients in Ireland.[8]
Hogan attended secondary school at Terenure College, Dublin.[9]
Filmography
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1974 | Zardoz | George Saden | |
| 1977 | A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man | Stephen Dedalus | |
| 1978 | Exposure | Eugene | |
| 1979 | The Outsider | Finbar Donovan | |
| 1983 | Screamtime | Doctor | |
| 1984 | Anne Devlin | Robert Emmett | |
| 1988 | Taffin | The Builder | |
| 1993 | In the Name of the Father | Defense Counsel | |
| 1996 | Some Mother's Son | British Captain | |
| 1997 | How to Cheat in the Leaving Certificate | News Reader | |
| 2002 | Evelyn | Father O'Malley | |
| 2004 | King Arthur | Bishop Decoy | |
| 2005 | Tara Road | Accountant | |
| 2014 | The Inquiry | William Martin Murphy | |
| 2016 | The Flag | Flint | |
| 2018 | Citizen Lane | Reverend James Lane | |
| 2018 | We Have Always Lived in the Castle | Old Ned | |
| 2019 | The Professor and the Madman | Lord Chief Justice | |
| 2020 | The Legion | Saul | |
| 2021 | The Last Duel | Priest at Duel |
References
- ^ a b "A beginning full of drama". Independent.ie.
- ^ a b "Bosco Hogan". BFI. Archived from the original on 28 January 2018.
- ^ "Bosco Hogan | TV Guide". TVGuide.com.
- ^ "Bosco Hogan". www.aveleyman.com.
- ^ "A Cry From Heaven 2005 (Abbey) | Abbey Archives | Abbey Theatre - Amharclann na Mainistreach". Abbey Theatre.
- ^ "Bosco Hogan | TV, Documentary and Other Appearances". AllMovie.
- ^ "Season 5, Episode 7 of Vikings | MySeries.tv | Series | MySeries". www.myseries.tv.
- ^ "Bosco Hogan". Voicebank Dublin.
- ^ Keating, Sara (25 March 2023). "Bosco Hogan: 'On the stage I feel most alive'". Irish Times. Retrieved 28 May 2024.
External links
- Bosco Hogan at IMDb
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