Personal Info

Known For

Acting

Known Credits

114

Gender

Male

Birthday

1929-09-07

Deathday

2011-02-13 (81 years old)

Place of Birth

Mullagh, County Cavan, Ireland

Also Known As

T.P. McKenna
Thomas Patrick McKenna

T. P. McKenna

Biography

Born in Mullagh, County Cavan, Ireland, Thomas Patrick 'T. P.' McKenna was a distinguished character actor of film and TV and a prolific stage actor. He made his stage debut in "Summer and Smoke" by Tennessee Williams at the Pike Theatre in Dublin in 1954 and his film debut in the 1960 film The Night Fighters. Film credits included Straw Dogs, Ulysses, Perfect Friday, Villain, The Charge of the Light Brigade, Red Scorpion and Valmont, whilst his TV credits included Bleak House, Inspector Morse, Doctor Who, Casualty, Ballykissangel and Lovejoy.

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Acting

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The World of James Joyce: His Life & Work as Self - Narrator

2004

The Libertine as Black Rod

2003		The Boys & Girl from County Clare as The Announcer
2003		Mantrap – Straw Dogs: The Final Cut as Self - Actor / Major John Scott

2001

Waking the Dead as Phil Brown

2000		Monarch as Henry VIII
2000		Longitude as Edmund Burke
2000		Longitude as Edmund Burke

1998

Kings in Grass Castles as Lord Dunraven

1996

Testament: The Bible in Animation as God (voice)

1994

Liberation as Lloyd George, P.M. of England

1993

Scarlet and Black as Marquis de la Mole

1992		Heartbeat as Michael O'Leary
1992		The Law Lord as Judge Selwyn

1991

Events at Drimaghleen as Father Sallins

1990		Shoot to Kill as Chief Constable Sir John Hermon
1990		Shoot to Kill as Chief Constable Sir John Harmon

1989		Miss Marple: A Caribbean Mystery as Dr. Grahame
1989		Valmont as Baron

1988		Red Scorpion as General Vortek
1988		Doctor Who: The Greatest Show in the Galaxy as Captain Cook
1988		Jack the Ripper as O'Connor
1988		Pascali's Island as Dr. Hogan
1988		Unreported Incident as Michael
1988		The Play on One as Michael Flynn
1988		The Modern World: Ten Great Writers as Citizen

1987

Inspector Morse as Professor Sir Lionel Phelps

1986		Casualty as Arthur Jackson
1986		Casualty as Dr. Archie Whitlock
1986		Lovejoy as Bertram Montserrat
1986		Strong Medicine as Dr. Sweeting

1985		The Doctor and the Devils as O'Connor
1985		Bleak House as Harold Skimpole

1984		Give Us a Break: Hustle Bustle Toil and Muscle as Dennis Naylor
1984		Miss Marple as Dr. Grahame
1984		Memed My Hawk as Dursan
1984		Moving on the Edge as Liam

1983		Agatha Christie's Partners in Crime
1983		To the Lighthouse as Augustus Carmichael
1983		The Scarlet and the Black as Himmler

1982		Britannia Hospital as Theatre Surgeon
1982		Crimes as Melvyn

1981		The Manions of America as Harry Clement
1981		Random Moments in a May Garden as Digby
1981		Levkas Man as Holroyd

1980		Pasmore as Helen's husband
1980		Lady Killers as Sir Hardinge Giffard Q.C.
1980		Silver Dream Racer as Bank Manager

1979		Deasey (Desperate) as FG
1979		The Outsider as John Russell
1979		Minder as J.J.Mooney

1978		Exposure as Dan
1978		A Child's Voice as Ainsley Rupert Macreadie
1978		Holocaust as Blobel
1978		Blake's 7 as Sarkoff

1977		Target
1977		A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man as Simon Dedalus
1977		Love Lies Bleeding as Geoffrey

1976		Beasts: Baby as Dick Pummery
1976		Stones as Harvey Fenton-Jones
1976		Beasts as Dick Pummery
1976		The Duchess of Duke Street

1975		Rumpole of the Bailey
1975		The Next Victim as Frampton
1975		Quiller as Buchanan
1975		All Creatures Great and Small as Soames
1975		Looking for Clancy
1975		The Venturers
1975		The Sweeney as Det. Supt. Grant

1974		Father Brown
1974		Percy's Progress as London News Editor
1974		Fall of Eagles as Count Conrad von Hotzendorf
1974		Napoleon and Love
1974		The Changeling as Tomazo de Piracquo

1973		A Warm December as Man (uncredited)
1973		Thriller as Jack Hardisty
1973		Thriller as Frampton
1973		Lady Killer as Jack Hardisty

1972		Crown Court
1972		Crown Court as Henry Burnett

1971		Straw Dogs as Maj. John Scott
1971		Justice as Supt. George Lester
1971		Jason King
1971		Villain as Frank Fletcher
1971		Percy as Meet The People Compere

1970		Perfect Friday as Smith
1970		The Beast in the Cellar as Det. Chief Sup. Paddick
1970		The Rivals as Sir Lucius O'Trigger
1970		The 5th Day of Peace as Nick
1970		Manhunt as Louis Sampere

1969		Anne of the Thousand Days as Norris
1969		Blood of the Lamb as Joe Katz

1968

The Charge of the Light Brigade as William Russel

1967		Man in a Suitcase
1967		Callan
1967		Ulysses as Buck Mulligan

1965		BBC Play of the Month as Sir Lucius O'Trigger
1965		BBC Play of the Month as Kommissarov
1965		Young Cassidy as Tom
1965		Ferry Cross the Mersey as Jack Hanson
1965		Deirdre

1964		The Wednesday Play as John Joe Moran
1964		Girl with Green Eyes as The Priest
1964		Downfall

1963

Doctor Who as The Captain

1962		The Saint as Tony
1962		The Quare Fellow as Walsh
1962		Dr. Finlay's Casebook

1961		Johnny Nobody as Garda
1961		The Avengers as Grant
1961		Freedom to Die as Mike

1960

The Siege of Sidney Street as Lapidos

1959

No Hiding Place

1951

Hallmark Hall of Fame as Soames