Tony Rohr

Tony Rohr (born 1940) is an Irish actor.

Career

Rohr played Grandad in The Lakes and Solomon Featherstone in Middlemarch. He has also appeared in The Bill, The Long Good Friday, McVicar, Softly, Softly, Crown Court, The Sweeney, Casualty, Lovejoy, I Hired a Contract Killer, Cracker, The Vet, Father Ted, Waking the Dead, Hustle and Inspector George Gently (in the memorable role of "China"). He played the railway station master in the 2010 film Leap Year. He played the IRA Brigade Commander in Yorkshire TV's Harry's Game. He recently played Anthony, the estranged father of the title character, Derek, in the series of the same name written and directed by Ricky Gervais.

Personal life

He has a daughter Louise with the actress Pauline Collins. Collins gave Louise up for adoption when Collins was 23 years old and a penniless single mother. They were reunited 22 years later. Collins's book, Letter To Louise, documents these events.

Filmography

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1978	Terror	Villager #3
1980	McVicar	Bootsie Hagan
1980	The Long Good Friday	O'Flaherty
1982	Angel	George
1983	Ascendancy	Chauffeur
1985	No Surrender	McCarthur
1985	Code Name: Emerald	Patrick Callaghan
1986	Rocinante	Stan
1988	High Spirits	Christy
1990	I Hired a Contract Killer	Frank the Doctor
1992	The Playboys	Kelly
1992	Into the West	Traveller
1997	The Butcher Boy	Bogman in Mental Hospital
1998	The Nephew	Crony #1
1998	Titanic Town	Cork Driver
1998	The Tale of Sweety Barrett	Flick Hennessy
1999	Most Important	Paudie O'Neill
2009	Dead Man Running	Mr. Jeff
2010	Leap Year	Frank
2010	Mr. Nice	Landlord
2010	Round Ireland with a Fridge	Willy
2012	Les Misérables	Overseer
2013	The Double	Rudolph

External links

• Tony Rohr at IMDb