IRISH character actor Derrick O’Connor has passed away from pneumonia at the age of 77, his publicist has revealed.
The Dublin-born star, perhaps most recognisable as the villainous Pieter Vorstedt in Lethal Weapon 2, passed away on Friday, June 29 in Santa Barbara, California.
O’Connor was a frequent collaborator with director Terry Gilliam, starring in three of his movies – Jabberwocky, Brazil and perhaps most memorably Time Bandits, where he played Robin Hood’s mumbling grave robber.
He also starred alongside Ben Affleck in Daredevil as Fr Everett, the priest who acted as a confidante of the blind superhero.
Other notable roles included Thomas Aquinas in End of Days opposite Arnold Schwarzenegger and a wannabe buccaneer in Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest.
Born in Dublin on June 3, 1941, O’Connor was raised in London.
He was a member of the Royal Shakespeare Company and as well as treading the boards, directed and produced a version Samuel Beckett’s Krapp’s Last Tape, which was staged in San Francisco.
He also wrote, directed and starred in the 1975 Irish docudrama film A Pint of Plain.
Television credits included The Professionals, The Sweeney, Z Cars, Alias and Murder, She Wrote.
O’Connor, who relocated to America in 1990, is survived by his wife Mimi and son Max.
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