Bosco Hogan | |
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Born | 1949 (age 73–74) |
John Bosco Hogan (born March 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]
Year | Title | Role | Notes |
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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 |
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