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Pat Laffan obituary: prolific actor who worked on stage, TV and film

Patrick (Pat) Laffan

Born: 8th June,

Died: 14th March,

Pat Laffan, who has died aged 79, was a prolific and distinguished Irish actor and director with a career spanning stage, television and film.

From until he went freelance in , with a three-year break from , when he was based in London, he was a member of the Abbey Theatre’s company, which had made him well-known to Irish theatre-goers.

However, arguably, it wasn’t until he played the ne’er-do-well George Burgess in Stephen Frears’s film version of Roddy Doyle’s The Snapper in that he became in a real sense, a household name to the general public.

This screen notoriety was reprised in his TV role as Pat Mustard, the sleazy milkman and would-be seducer of Pauline McLynn’s Mrs Doyle in Channel 4’s Father Ted in the late s, the role which very probably brought his talent to a truly global audience.

This screen success tends to conceal, however, his arguably more important role as one of the central figures in the renaissance of Irish dramatic art in its widest sense from the early s onwards, particularly in two important positions, as director of the Peacock Theatre, the Abbey Theatre’s studio space from , and his role as a board

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Patricia Laffan

British actress (–)

Patricia Laffan
Patricia Laffan in Quo Vadis ()
Born	Patricia Alice Laffan ()19 March Streatham, London, England
Died	10 March () (aged&#;94) Chelsea, London, England
Nationality	British
Occupation	Actress
Years&#;active	–

Patricia Alice Laffan (19 March – 10 March ) was an English stage, film, television and radio actress,^[1] and also, after her retirement from acting, an international fashion impresario.^[2] She was five feet, six inches tall, with dark reddish-brown hair and green eyes.^[3] She is best known for her film roles as the Empress Poppaea in Quo Vadis () and the alien Nyah in Devil Girl from Mars (). Her biography, Devil Girl Remembered, was written by Andrew Ross in

Early life

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Patricia Laffan was the daughter of Irish-born Arthur Charles Laffan (–) and London-born Elvira Alice Vitali (–). She described her father as 'a successful rubber planter in Malaya'.^[3] Her parents returned to the British Isles shortly before the birth of their daughter in London.^[3] On seeing the MGM film The Broadway Melody () at the age of ten, Patricia decided she wanted to act.^[3] She was educated at schools in Folkestone, Ke