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A fourth generation Dubliner he was equally known in his homeland and on British television for knockabout comedy and for classic tragedy. His father, Con O'Shea, was an actor - singer (part of a double act known as 'Light and Shade') who became an army captain in the Civil War. His mother was a harpist and ballet dancer and a great - grandfather fought at San Antonio in the American War of Independence, inherited a piece of Texas, struck oil, became a New Orleans gambler and lost his life in a plague He went to school at the Synge Street Christian Brothers establishment where he shared a desk with a boy who was to become a top British television personality ,Eamonn Andrews. After being heavily involved in school theatrical productions he became a professional actor at 17 performing regularly throughout his career with the Gate Theatre in Dublin. with whom he eventually became a director on top of running his own company, 'The Vico Players'.He starred in 'Carrie', an Irish musical. at
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