Bosco Hogan

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Bosco Hogan
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John Bosco Hogan (born March 1949) is an Irish stage, film, and television actor.

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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]

Filmography

YearTitleRoleNotes
1974 Zardoz George Saden
1977 A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man Stephen Dedalus
1978ExposureEugene
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
2014The InquiryWilliam Martin Murphy
2016The FlagFlint
2018Citizen LaneReverend 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

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