David Kelly Biography (2)
Kelly's feature credits include Mike Newell's Into the West; Suri Krishnama's A Man of No Importance, with Albert Finney; Peter Yates Run of the Country, also with Albert Finney; The Jigsaw Man," starring Laurence Olivier; and Roman Polanski's Pirates, with Walter Matthau. Other films Kelly has appeared in include Joyriders, Hunchback of Notre Dame, The Red Monarch, Trio by Forsythe, Philadelphia Here I Come, The MacKenzie Break, and Joe Strick's Portrait of an Artist and Ulysses.
His most memorable television work includes the cult British TV comedies Fawlty Towers, with John Cleese and Robin's Nest. In addition to appearing in numerous dramas for the BBC and ITV, Kelly's other television drama series include Z Cars, Emmerdale, Heartbeat and Ballykissangel.
Theater highlights over his long career include the world premiere of Brendan Behan's The Quare Fella; Samuel Beckett's one-man piece Krapp's Last Tape, in New York's Lincoln Center, as well as in Chicago and Melbourne, Australia; the world premiere of Behan's Joan Littlewood's Theatre Workshop production of Waiting for Godot and the Hal Prince production of They Might Be Giants; and The Crucible.
During the 1960s, Kelly toured in G.B. Shaw's Candida and Mrs. Warren's Profession in Stockholm, Amsterdam and Oslo. He appeared in the Paris and Zurich productions of James Joyce's Stephen D, in The Countless Cathleen by W.B. Yeats and worked with Robert Ryan in John Neville's company at the Nottingham Playhouse.
Recent theater work includes the American tour of Playboy of the Western World, which won him a nomination for the Helen Hayes Award; Moon for the Misbegotten in Buffalo, New York; Ghosts in Huntington, Long Island; Tartuffe at the Gate Theatre, Dublin; The Crucible at the Abbey Theatre; and Sunshine Boys.
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