Personal Info
Birth date
1935-07-21 (90 Years)
Day of death
2000-01-28
Gender
Male
Known for
Acting
Place of birth
Ballyfarnon, Co. Roscommon, Ireland
Also known as
-Tony Doyle
Biography
Tony Doyle was an Irish television and film actor best known for his roles in the BBC TV drama series Ballykissangel and Between the Lines.
Filmography
Z-Cars
7
Overview:
Z-Cars or Z Cars is a British television drama series centred on the work of mobile uniformed police in the fictional town of Newtown, based on Kirkby, Merseyside. Produced by the BBC, it debuted in January 1962 and ran until September 1978.Minder
6.833
Overview:
Roguish comedy drama following the misadventures of small-time crook Arthur Daley.Crown Court
5.4
Overview:
Crown Court is an afternoon television courtroom drama produced by Granada Television for the ITV network that ran from 1972, when the Crown Court system replaced Assize courts and Quarter sessions in the legal system of England and Wales, to 1984.Stay Lucky
6
Overview:
Drama about a small-time gangster Thomas Gynn (Dennis Waterman) from London who discovers a new life up north in Yorkshire. Helping widowed, self-sufficient businesswoman Sally Hardcastle (Jan Francis) when her car breaks down on the motorway, Thomas reluctantly accepts an offer of a lift to Leeds. Over the coming months, the two become involved in a series of misadventures that soon find them being drawn closer together.Between the Lines
5.6
Overview:
Detective Superintendent Tony Clark is an ambitious member of the Complaints Investigation Bureau, an internal organisation that investigates claims of corruption inside the police in England and Wales. Along the way Clark overcomes strong influence from his superiors and problems in his private life, most notably the break-up of his marriage following an affair with WPC Jenny Dean.Peak Practice
6.1
Overview:
Peak Practice is a British drama series about a GP surgery in Cardale — a small fictional town in the Derbyshire Peak District — and the doctors who worked there. It ran on ITV from 10 May 1993 to 30 January 2002 and was one of their most successful series at the time. It originally starred Kevin Whately as Dr Jack Kerruish, Amanda Burton as Dr Beth Glover and Simon Shepherd as Dr Will Preston, though the roster of doctors would change many times over the course of the series. Cardale was based on the Staffordshire village of Longnor for the final series, but was previously based in the Derbyshire village of Crich, although certain scenes were filmed at other nearby Derbyshire towns and villages, most notably Matlock, Belper and Ashover.Maigret
7
Overview:
Based on the novels by Georges Simenon, Michael Gambon plays the eponymous detective from the Sûreté in this 1992 revival of the 1960s BBC drama series. Maigret is an intuitutive detective, who investigates his cases by watching and listening, getting to know everyone on his list of suspects until someone makes a slip or breaks down and confesses.Boon
5.5
Overview:
Boon is a British television drama and modern-day western series starring Michael Elphick, David Daker, and later Neil Morrissey. It was created by Jim Hill and Bill Stair and filmed by Central Television for ITV. It revolved around the life of a modern-day Lone Ranger and ex-firefighter, Ken Boon.Rumpole of the Bailey
7.222
Overview:
Rumpole of the Bailey is a British television series created and written by the British writer and barrister John Mortimer. It stars Leo McKern as Horace Rumpole, an aging London barrister who defends any and all clients, and has been spun off into a series of short stories, novels, and radio programmes.Murder in Eden
6
Overview:
Murder in Eden is a British television series directed by Nicholas Renton and featuring Ian Bannen, Peter Firth and Alun Armstrong. It was first aired on the BBC in 1991 in three episodes of 55 minutes. It was set in a remote part of rural County Donegal where a landlord of a pub murders his barmen. He is blackmailed by one of the other inhabitants, while the police are busy hunting for the killer. It was based on the novel Bogmail by Patrick McGinley.Taggart
6.333
Overview:
Taggart is a Scottish detective television program. The series revolves around a group of detectives initially in the Maryhill CID of Strathclyde Police, though various storylines have happened in other parts of the Greater Glasgow area, and as of the most recent series the team have operated out of the fictional John Street police station across the street from the City Chambers.Damage
6.614
Overview:
The life of a respected British politician at the height of his career crumbles when he becomes obsessed with his son's lover.Ballykissangel
6.9
Overview:
A young British priest adjusts to life in a rural Irish community where life revolves around the church and the local pub. Everyone knows everyone else's business, and everyone usually has an opinion on it. While characters come and go, the small-town qualities remain.The Modern World: Ten Great Writers
NYR
Overview:
This documentary series uses drama and commentary to shed light on the lives and works of Joseph Conrad, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, T. S. Eliot, Henrik Ibsen, James Joyce, Franz Kafka, Thomas Mann, Luigi Pirandello, Marcel Proust and Virginia Woolf.1990
6
Overview:
The series is set in a dystopian future in which Britain is under the grip of the Home Office's Department of Public Control (PCD), a tyrannically oppressive bureaucracy riding roughshod over the population's civil liberties. Edward Woodward plays Jim Kyle, a journalist on the last independent newspaper called The Star, who turns renegade and begins to fight the PCD covertly. The officials of the PCD, in turn, try to provide proof of Kyle's subversive activities.Band of Gold
5.6
Overview:
Band of Gold is a British drama series written by Kay Mellor and produced by Granada Television. It was originally shown on ITV between 1995 and 1997. Starring Geraldine James, Cathy Tyson, Barbara Dickson and Samantha Morton, the series revolves around the lives of a group of women who live and work in Bradford's red-light district. Three seasons of Band of Gold were produced (the third under the moniker of Gold, with only a small number of characters from the first two series).The Enigma Files
5.5
Overview:
The Enigma Files is a British television detective drama that ran for a single series of fifteen episodes in 1980. Detective Chief Inspector Nick Lewis is tasked with investigating unsolved crimes.Who Dares Wins
6.202
Overview:
When SAS Captain Peter Skellen is thrown out of the service for gross misconduct due to unnecessary violence and bullying, he is soon recruited by The People's Lobby, a fanatical group aiming to hold several US dignitaries hostage. But Skellen's dismissal is a front to enable him to get close to the terrorist group. Can he get close enough to stop the Lobby from creating an international incident?The Legend of Robin Hood
6.5
Overview:
The Legend of Robin Hood was a 1975 BBC television serial that told the story of the life of Robin Hood.I Went Down
6
Overview:
Fresh out of prison, Git rescues a former best friend (now living with Git's girlfriend) from a beating at the hands of loan sharks. He's now in trouble with the mob boss, Tom French, who sends Git to Cork with another debtor, Bunny Kelly, to find a guy named Frank Grogan, and take him to a man with a friendly face at a shack across a bog. It's a tougher assignment than it seems: Git's a novice, Bunny's prone to rash acts, Frank doesn't want to be found (and once he's found, he has no money), and maybe Tom's planning to murder Frank, which puts Git in a moral dilemma. Then, there's the long-ago disappearance of Sonny Mulligan. What's a decent and stand-up lad to do?Circle of Friends
6.3
Overview:
Three girlhood friends now at college share first loves, first kisses and first betrayals. At the center of it all is the best-looking boy on campus. Can a self-conscious dreamer hook the biggest fish in the pond?The Aphrodite Inheritance
7
Overview:
A man visiting Cyprus to investigate the death of his brother is drawn into a strange conspiracy.The Treaty
6
Overview:
How the Anglo-Irish Treaty between the unrecognised Irish Republic, represented by Michael Collins, and the British government was concluded after high-stakes negotiations in 1921.Amongst Women
6
Overview:
Based on the novel by John McGahern and set in Ireland in the 1950s, the series tells the story of Moran and his children. Especially the girls find it difficult to get away from the influence of their despotic father and start living their own lives.Quackser Fortune Has a Cousin in the Bronx
4.5
Overview:
In Dublin, a working class family has been unsuccessful in convincing their son to get a real job: the son prefers his job of scooping up horse's dung and selling it for flower gardens. An American exchange student almost runs him over and gets to know him. The dung man has ignored warnings from his family and suddenly the horses have been banned from Dublin. His new love is leaving for America and he must find a way to cope with the new reality.Ulysses
6
Overview:
Dublin; June 16, 1904. Stephen Dedalus, who fancies himself as a poet, embarks on a day of wandering about the city during which he finds friendship and a father figure in Leopold Bloom, a middle-aged Jew. Meanwhile, Bloom's day, illuminated by a funeral and an evening of drinking and revelry that stirs paternal feelings toward Stephen, ends with a rapprochement with Molly, his earthy wife.Loophole
6
Overview:
When architect Stephen Booker loses his partnership, he finds jobs hard to come by, and with money in short supply, he unwittingly becomes involved in a daring scheme to rob one of London's biggest bank vaults.You, Me & Marley
6
Overview:
A group of bored Roman Catholic teens from Belfast, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom steal cars and joyride around the city, causing havoc among the nearby Protestants and local Irish Republican Army members, all of who are outraged by the youths' nihilism. The gang, led by ace thief Sean (Marc O'Shea), is connected with the IRA but couldn't care less about the group's politics. But things turn serious when an IRA member captures one of the boys, Marley (Michael Liebmann), in an effort to end the mayhem.Acting
1999A Love Divided as Unknown
1998Amongst Women (4 Episodes) as Moran
1997I Went Down as Tom French
1996Ballykissangel (49 Episodes) as Brian Quigley
1995Circle of Friends as Dr. Foley
1995Band of Gold (18 Episodes) as George Ferguson
1993Circle of Deceit as Graham
1993Love Lies Bleeding as Geordie Wilson
1993Peak Practice (1 Episode) as Bob Massey
1992Damage as Prime Minister
1992You, Me & Marley as Police Inspector
1992Hostages as Badraig Murphy
1992Between the Lines (35 Episodes) as Chief Supt. John Deakin
1992Maigret (1 Episode) as Unknown
1991The Treaty as Arthur Griffith
1991Children of the North as John Axton
1991Arise and Go Now as The Chief
1991Murder in Eden (3 Episodes) as Tim Roarty
1991Secret Friends as Martin
1990Who Bombed Birmingham? as Richard Ferguson QC
1990Pride and Extreme Prejudice as Hoffman
1989Stay Lucky (1 Episode) as Unknown
1989The Nightwatch as John Healey
1989The Hen House as McCloskey
1989Here Is the News as Editor
1988Crossfire as Donal McCarthy
1988The Modern World: Ten Great Writers (1 Episode) as Narrator (voice)
1987The Venus de Milo Instead as Courier
1987Devil's Paradise as Quinn
1987Samuel Beckett: Silence to Silence as narrator
1986Eat the Peach as Sean Murtagh
1986Frankie and Johnnie as Hank
1986Boon (1 Episode) as Unknown
1984Charlie as Skip Taylor
1984Moving on the Edge as Hugo
1984A Woman Calling as Professor Broderick
1983Macbeth as Macduff
1983Taggart (1 Episode) as Unknown
1983Walter and June as Clive
1982Soft Targets as Kirby
1982Who Dares Wins as Col. Hadley
1981Loophole as Nolan
1981The Sin Bin as Eddie Peters
1981Beloved Enemy as Blake
1980Murphy's Stroke as Darrer
1980The Enigma Files (1 Episode) as Det. Chief Inspector Lowson
1980The Long March as Fergus Sloan
1979Minder (1 Episode) as Irishman
1979The Aphrodite Inheritance (8 Episodes) as Martin Preece
1978Stronger Than the Sun as London Journalist
19771990 (16 Episodes) as Dave Brett
1976Your Man from Six Counties as Father Nolan
1976The Chauffeur as Snooker Player
1975Rumpole of the Bailey (1 Episode) as Unknown
1975The Legend of Robin Hood (1 Episode) as Norman Sergeant
1975The Dandelion Clock as Eddie
1972Crown Court (1, 3, 1 Episode) as Unknown, Martin Thornton, Bob Hammond
1970Quackser Fortune Has a Cousin in the Bronx as Mike
1967Ulysses as Lt Stanley G Gardiner
1962Z-Cars (1 Episode) as Patrick Dougan