Dan O'Herlihy (May 1, 1919–February 17, 2005) was an Irish film actor. May 1 is the 121st day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (122nd in leap years). ... 1919 (MCMXIX) was a common year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar). ... February 17 is the 48th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... 2005 (MMV) is a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Films are produced by recording actual people and objects with cameras, or by creating them using animation techniques and/or special effects. ... This article does not cite its references or sources. ...

Born in County Wexford, Ireland, O'Herlihy first appeared in Carol Reed's Odd Man Out in 1947. His first American film was Macbeth in the following year, appearing with Orson Welles. In 1952 he starred in Luis Buñuel's The Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, which garnered him an Oscar nomination for Best Actor. That same year he also starred in the Red Scare movie Invasion U.S.A.. Wexford (Loch Garman in Irish) is a maritime county in the southeast of Ireland, in the province of Leinster. ... Sir Carol Reed (30 December 1906 – 25 April 1976) was an English film director, winner of an Academy Award for his film version of the musical, Oliver! (1968). ... Odd Man Out (1947) is classic post WW 2 British film noir starring James Mason as an Irish republican operative running from the military state that was Northern Ireland after a botched bank robbery meant to replenish republican coffers. ... 1947 (MCMXLVII) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will take you to calendar). ... Scene from Macbeth, depicting the witches conjuring of an apparition in Act IV, Scene I. Painting by William Rimmer This article is on the play Macbeth by Shakespeare. ... Orson Welles on the set of Citizen Kane. ... 1952 (MCMLII) was a leap year starting on Tuesday (link will take you to calendar). ... Luis Buñuel Portoles (February 22, 1900 – July 29, 1983) was a Spanish-born Mexican filmmaker. ... The Adventures of Robinson Crusoe (also known as Las Aventuras de Robinson Crusoe) is a 1954 film based on the Daniel Defoe novel Robinson Crusoe. ... Although he never won an Oscar for any of his movie performances, the comedian Bob Hope received two honorary Oscars for his contributions to cinema. ... The Academy Award for Best Actor is one of the awards given to people working in the motion picture industry by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences; nominations are made by Academy members who are actors and actresses. ... This article contains information that has not been verified and thus might not be reliable. ... Invasion U.S.A. (in the actual title frame but not the publicity, Invasion USA) is a 1952 motion picture set during the Cold War and portraying the invasion of the United States by an unnamed Communist enemy meant to be taken as the Soviet Union. ...

O'Herlihy later starred in Fail-Safe in 1964, The Last Starfighter in 1984, John Huston's The Dead in 1987, in RoboCop, in the cult television program Twin Peaks in 1991, and in RoboCop 2. Safety engineering is used to assure that a life-critical system behaves as needed even when pieces fail. ... For the Nintendo 64 emulator, see 1964 (Emulator). ... The Last Starfighter is a 1984 science fiction movie or its subsequent novelization that year by Alan Dean Foster, or a video game based on the movie. ... 1984 (MCMLXXXIV) is a leap year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Statue of John Huston, Puerto Vallarta, Mexico John Marcellus Huston (August 5, 1906–August 28, 1987) was an American film director and actor. ... The Dead is a 1987 film directed by John Huston (the last film he directed before his death) and starring his daughter Anjelica Huston. ... 1987 (MCMLXXXVII) is a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... RoboCop is a satirical 1987 science fiction action movie, directed by Paul Verhoeven. ... Cult television, like cult figures, cult film and cult radio, attracts a band of aficionados devoted to a specific television program or unreal universe. ... Twin Peaks was an American dramatic television series created by David Lynch and Mark Frost. ... 1991 (MCMXCI) is a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... RoboCop 2 is a satirical science fiction film, released in 1990 and set in the near future in a dystopian metropolitan Detroit, Michigan. ...

He was the brother of director Michael O'Herlihy and the father of actor Gavan O'Herlihy and architect Lorcan O'Herlihy. Gavan OHerlihy is the son of Irish actor Daniel (Dan) OHerlihy. ...

External links

• IMDb filmography
• Dan O'Herlihy Bio and Filmography