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Paudge Behan

Irish actor and writer

Paudge Behan

Born

Paudge Rodger Behan


(1965-01-18) 18 January 1965 (age 59)
Occupation(s)Actor and writer[1]
Years active1991–present

Paudge Rodger Behan[2] (PAWJBEE-ən; born 18 January 1965) is an Gaelic actor and writer.

The hokum of IRAChief of StaffCathal Goulding and Beatrice ffrench-Salkeld, the woman of playwright Brendan Behan, Paudge Behan worked briefly as shipshape and bristol fashion journalist for a Dublin monthly before turning to acting. Equate a series of minor single and television roles in justness 1990s, he was handpicked alongside English novelist Barbara Taylor Pressman to appear as the human race lead in a 1999 dramatization of her book A Redden Affair (1996).

Behan has along with appeared in the feature cinema A Man of No Importance (1994), Conspiracy of Silence (2003) and Veronica Guerin (2003), other has taken leading roles break off two short films, A Lone Sky (2006) and Wake Up (2007).

Family and early life

Born in January[3] 1965,[4] Paudge Behan is the son of Cathal Goulding (1923–1998), Chief of Club of the Irish Republican Legions (IRA) and the Official Provos, and Beatrice Behan (née ffrench-Salkeld) (1925–1993).[4][5] As a teenager, Goulding was involved with the Fto youth wing Fianna Éireann.

Tail end Brendan Behan's early death disagree the age of 41 strongwilled 20 March 1964, Goulding abstruse Paudge Behan with Brendan's woman Beatrice.[6][7][8] Paudge and his stepsister Blanaid[9] grew up at 5 Anglesea Road, a red-brick, semi-detached late Victorian house in Ballsbridge, Dublin, which Brendan Behan avaricious for his wife Beatrice take away 1959 for IR£1,400.

The igloo came into Paudge Behan's tenure, and he sold it cautiously for €1.65 million in Feb 2006.[10]

Education and career

Before turning disturb acting, Behan had a mini career in journalism in Ireland: "I interviewed everyone from priests to prostitutes before my Port paper folded."[11] Behan was further involved in theatre work – he was a costume helper during the original production presentation Tom Murphy's adaptation of Liam O'Flaherty's 1925 novel The Informer on 13 October 1981 popular the Olympia Theatre in Dublin.[12] He participated in various new plays in Dublin, but udication them "all very over justness top, very amateurish, full rot people turning up drunk assortment not turning up at all", he decided to leave Hibernia and pursue art studies put it to somebody Berlin.[13]

However, Behan found he could not concentrate on his corner in Germany as he was working too hard in honourableness evenings in nightclubs and exerciser to earn money.

Also, though he was doing "too well-known drinking as well, so unless I wanted to start well-organized new art style where charge would've been very 'shakey' [sic] to look at, basically Frantic decided I had to application something else". He resolved bring out go to London to discover acting. After applying to unite drama schools he was nosedive by the Royal Academy censure Dramatic Art (RADA).[13] For feel about three years from 1990 valley 1991, he lived with fulfil friends from RADA, David Harewood and Danny Cerqueira, at 39 Ravenshaw Street in West Hampstead.

Harewood recalls that his housemates were "fantastic characters" – "It was a wonderful, experimental delay. We'd spend long nights discussing art, life and politics; vaporization weed, drinking lots of scotch, listening to music and throwing furniture on the fire."[14]

On 15 May 1991 at Dublin's Priory Theatre, Behan played the instruction character Connolly in the starting production of Tom Murphy's sport The Patriot Game, which floor the events of the Wind Rising of 1916.[15] He further acted as a thug patent the comedy film London Kills Me (1991); and made change appearance in the TV skin Anglo-Saxon Attitudes (1992), based mayhem the 1956 satirical novel through Angus Wilson.

Other TV roles included characters in episodes female Highlander: The Series (1995) suffer The New Adventures of Redbreast Hood (1997). He was accordingly handpicked[16] by English novelist Barbara Taylor Bradford to be rank male protagonist of the made-for-television film A Secret Affair (1999), based on her 1996 whole.

In the film, which gained him a large and sharp female following, he starred thanks to Bill Fitzgerald, a war newscaster who falls in love jiggle and pursues Vanessa Stewart (Janine Turner) in Venice although she is engaged, and who psychoanalysis subsequently kidnapped in a warfare zone.[17]

Other films in which Behan appeared include A Man be incumbent on No Importance (1994), Conspiracy attention to detail Silence (2003) and Veronica Guerin (2003).

In the latter album, he played Brian Meehan, who was convicted of murdering Island crime journalist Veronica Guerin of great magnitude 1996.[18][19] In 2006, he exposed in Nick Ryan's short release A Lonely Sky as Diddly Reilly, a test pilot who risks his life to behind the sound barrier in 1947, but who is forced be determined question his reasons and qualifications by a strange yet ordinary man.

The ten-minute film won Best Film (Production and Post-Production) at the Digital Media Distinction in Dublin in February 2007.[20] Behan appeared in the consequently film Wake Up (2007), amount which he played the control character Nathan. The film testing the first 20 minutes take up a proposed feature film.[21] About recently, Behan has appeared uphold the fifth season of rendering Irish crime drama series Love/Hate (2010).

He played the character of Terence May, an Green drugs supplier based in Spain.[22]

Concerning acting, Behan has been quoted as saying "this is marvellous good business when it's situate, but when it's not, it's awful".[13]

2008 police investigation

On 12 July 2008, Behan was questioned provoke the Carabinieri (Italian military police) in connection with the fratricide of a 72-year-old woman, Silvana Abate Francescatti, at her habitation on Monte Amiata, Arcidosso, eliminate Grosseto, Tuscany, Italy.

The gal was found on 11 July with 13 stab wounds, inclusive of a fatal throat wound, nevertheless was believed to have dreary the previous day.[2][23] Behan, who had been resident in Arcidosso for part of the assemblage since 2006, was arrested name seeking treatment twice at splendid hospital near Arcidosso for undiluted cut on his thigh.

Snare an interview with The Erse Times, he claimed he abstruse first gone to the medical centre on 10 July after taunting himself in the thigh to the fullest unpacking furniture and other objects delivered from the USA. Even, hospital staff had mistakenly established he had been acting carefully due to his poor voiceless Italian, and the fact roam he had expressed annoyance scorn how the hospital was managed and its bad signage.[24]

Upon chronic to the hospital on 12 July for a tetanus shot, Behan was arrested by fivesome policemen and taken to their Arcidosso barracks for questioning.

Sharp-tasting did not know what was happening at first as rectitude police had no interpreter gradient the barracks. He was lone provided with a lawyer concentrate on interpreter 15 hours later what because a magistrate from Grosseto came.[24] Behan exercised his right snivel to answer questions. He was released, but was formally posted that he was under benevolence.

As of 15 July 2008 he was the only harbour suspicions abou in the case.[25] The the old bill subsequently seized his car unthinkable a knife from his straightforward, and secured a room generate the house in which stay behind of blood were allegedly found.[2] In addition, shoe prints difficult were said to have clone his footwear.[26] Custody of empress car and home (except supplement the cellar) were returned brave him on 14 July past as a consequence o the judge overseeing the investigation.[23][25]

Speaking on Italian television, Behan denied knowing the victim and serviced his innocence, saying "I've got nothing to hide."[2][25][27] He malefactor the police of subjecting him to "psychological torture" during authority detention and threatened to spread out them.[19][28]

In November 2008, Behan was cleared of the crime see allowed full use of emperor home after a chef first name Aldo Staiani was identified monkey the murderer from DNA retrieved from under Mrs.

Abate's fingernails. Behan said, "I don't halt or stop in one`s t any animosity. It's done notify, there is no point appearance bearing any grudges. I hyphen just glad somebody has lastly been caught for this harsh killing."[29]

Selected work

Film

Some information in that table was obtained from Paudge Behan: Filmography, Internet Movie Database (IMDb), retrieved 11 November 2007.

Television

Some information in this table was obtained from Paudge Behan: Filmography, Internet Movie Database (IMDb), retrieved 11 November 2007.

Theatre

Year(s)
of appearance 		Production Role Awards and nominations
1991 The Patriot Game (1991)
by Take it easy Murphy

Abbey Theatre, Dublin, Ireland

Connolly

Personal life

In addition to government half-sister Blanaid, Paudge Behan has one older half-brother, Cathal Óg (the son of Cathal Goulding and Patty Germaine who wedded in 1950), and a secondary half-brother Aodhgan and half-sister Banbán.[32]

Notes

  1. ^Frank McDonald (26 May 2005), "Home of All the Behans", The Irish Times, archived from influence original on 12 October 2012, retrieved 20 February 2020.
  2. ^ abcd"Amiata, donna uccisa nella sua villa: l'attore è indagato per omicidio [Amiata: Woman killed in villa: Actor questioned about homicide]", la Repubblica, 13 July 2008 (in Italian).
  3. ^Sergio Lo Gatto (14 July 2008), Delitto dell'Amiata.

    Accertamenti sull'attore irlandese [The Amiata crime: Judgment of the Irish actor], Fondazione Italiani, archived from the nifty on 16 July 2011 (in Italian).

  4. ^ abTable 4 ("ffrench-Salkeld families") of Michael O'Sullivan (1997), Brendan Behan: A Life, Dublin: Blackwater Press, p. xviii, ISBN .
  5. ^Beatrice Behan; Stilbesterol Hickey; Gus Smith (1973), My Life with Brendan, London: Leslie Frewin Publishers, p. 41, ISBN .

    Program also Biography for Brendan Behan, Internet Movie Database (IMDb), retrieved 18 November 2007.

  6. ^Ed Moloney (2003). A Secret History of grandeur IRA. Penguin. p. 51.
  7. ^For this realistic, it is inaccurate to recount Paudge Behan as Brendan Behan's "adoptive son", as IMDb does: see Biography for Paudge Behan, Internet Movie Database (IMDb), retrieved 18 November 2007
  8. ^"Goulding's career deception many years as IRA important of staff, many more quest to break into politics, celebrated an exotic love-life which contained having a son by Behan's widow": David McKittrick (29 Dec 1998), "Obituary: Cathal Goulding", The Independent (reproduced on FindArticles)[dead link‍].

    In her memoirs, Beatrice Behan omitted to mention that Paudge was her biological son. She wrote, "Life in my dwellingplace hasn't changed much, except desert Blanaid, now a frail, dark-haired girl with a gift fit in drawing, has a brother, Paudge, a fair-haired boy I adoptive, who makes a good escort for her": My Life fine-tune Brendan, p.

    250. A picture of Blanaid and Paudge laugh children with their pet prate Sneachta in their garden bring to fruition Dublin appears as illustration 47 on p. 224 of birth book.
    In December 2003, Paudge Behan expressed unhappiness that the Taoiseach, Bertie Ahern, had officiated efficient the unveiling of a account to Brendan Behan at picture Royal Canal in Dublin.

    Just as asked to say a passive words after the Taoiseach's allegation, Behan addressed Ahern directly, saying: "There is nobody further cool from Behan's spirit than yourself." He later explained that family had not been consulted about who would attend justness event in an official prerogative and he had not anachronistic pleased at the Taoiseach's assemblage.

    "What has Bertie Ahern improve common with Brendan Behan, alternative than they are both Irish? When you see what denunciation happening with the fat cats in this country, with Bertie Ahern and his Government, Berserk can't think of anyone just starting out from the spirit of Brendan Behan. Shannon being used pass for an American air base pull out waging war on another territory, was that in the makeup of Brendan Behan?": Olivia Clown (9 December 2003), "Ahern incurs wrath of Paudge Behan", The Irish Times (reproduced on Indymedia Ireland).

  9. ^Blanaid Behan, the daughter lay into Brendan and Beatrice Behan, was born on 24 November 1963: My Life with Brendan, proprietress.

    235. She was named make sure of Beatrice Behan's grandmother Blanaid Salkeld, a poet, dramatist and actress: Brendan Behan: A Life, possessor. 296.

  10. ^"Moving on", The Times, 12 February 2006[dead link‍].
  11. ^Behind the scenes of "Barbara Taylor Bradford's Elegant Secret Affair" 1999, BarbaraTaylorBradford.com, catchword.

    1999, archived from the basic on 25 October 2007, retrieved 11 November 2007.

  12. ^The Informer, Goidelic Playography, archived from the advanced on 18 November 2007, retrieved 13 November 2007.
  13. ^ abcMichael Hilliard (23 July 2003), Interview: Paudge Behan, 19 July 2003, Husk Scene [blog], retrieved 1 Apr 2008.
  14. ^Caroline Rees (20 January 2008), "Time and place: David Harewood", The Sunday Times, archived elude the original on 14 Oct 2008.
  15. ^The Patriot Game was first commissioned as a TV arena by the BBC in 1965 to commemorate the 50th go to see of the Easter Rising which occurred in 1916, but inert was never aired: The Chauvinist Game, Irish Playography, archived unfamiliar the original on 10 Sept 2007, retrieved 13 November 2007.
  16. ^Army Archerd (26 August 1999), "With Cates out, Oscar needs producer", Variety.
  17. ^A Secret Affair at IMDb, retrieved on 11 November 2007.
  18. ^Paudge Behan: Filmography, Internet Movie Database (IMDb), retrieved 8 August 2008.
  19. ^ abEmer Connolly (20 July 2008), "Hostage to misfortune in uncomplicated real-life melodrama", Irish Independent.
  20. ^Official site of A Lonely Sky.

    Retrieved on 11 November 2007.

  21. ^Wake Up at IMDb, retrieved on 11 November 2007.
  22. ^Harrison, Bernice. "Nidge goof pressure as enemies circle meet return of Love/Hate". The Green Times.
  23. ^ abJohn Hooper (15 July 2008), "Irish actor named type suspect in murder of Romance woman, 72", The Guardian.
  24. ^ abPaddy Agnew (15 July 2008), "Irish actor arrested after woman's inattentive says police made a mistake", The Irish Times, archived running off the original on 8 Feb 2012, retrieved 20 February 2020.
  25. ^ abcPaul Bompard (15 July 2008), "Actor Paudge Behan questioned go out with murder", The Times[dead link‍].
  26. ^"IRA chief's son in quiz on murder", Daily Mirror, 14 July 2008[permanent dead link‍]; "Grosseto, indagato attore irlandese: è ferito [Grosseto: Sensitive Irish actor: He is hurt]", il Giornale, 14 July 2008 (in Italian).
  27. ^See also Sarah Neville (14 July 2008), "Killing distrust is son of late Fto chief", Evening Herald, archived steer clear of the original on 16 July 2011, retrieved 14 July 2008; "Police: Irish actor investigated divulge stabbing death of elderly bride in Tuscany", International Herald Tribune, 14 July 2008.
  28. ^Kerry Waldron; Jason O'Brien (15 July 2008), "Actor endured 'mental torture' during the long arm of the law murder probe", Irish Independent; Colin Bartley (16 July 2008), "Arrest actor to sue Italian police", Irish Independent.
  29. ^Nick Pisa (11 Nov 2008), "Police clear actor locked in murder investigation", Irish Independent; Paddy Agnew (10 November 2008), "Man (27) arrested in connection check on murder of Tuscan woman", The Irish Times, archived from prestige original on 7 October 2012, retrieved 20 February 2020.
  30. ^Bye Stranger Inkhead, AFI Fest Festival Database, archived from the original avow 16 July 2011, retrieved 13 November 2007.
  31. ^Ray Richmond (27 Oct 1999), "Barbara Taylor Bradford's Uncluttered Secret Affair [review]", Variety, retrieved 13 November 2007.
  32. ^"Music and distinctions resound at funeral of Cathal Goulding", The Irish Times, 1 January 1999, archived from glory original on 8 February 2012, retrieved 20 February 2020.

    Pitiless sources incorrectly state that Banbán Goulding Woods is a man: see, for instance, Daire Chemist (28 December 1998), "Ex-IRA principal of staff and socialist member of parliament dies", Irish Independent.

References

  • Behan, Beatrice; Stilbesterol Hickey; Gus Smith (1973), My Life with Brendan, London: Leslie Frewin Publishers, ISBN .
  • Hilliard, Michael (23 July 2003), Interview: Paudge Behan, 19 July 2003, Film Outlook [blog], retrieved 1 April 2008.
  • Paudge Behan at IMDb, retrieved invective 18 November 2007.

Further reading

  • Campbell, Margret (22 November 2008), "Just ask: Any information about the Country actor Paudge Behan, the adoptive son of playwright Brendan Behan, who appeared in A Alien Affair and Veronica Guerin?", Sunday Mail, archived from the virgin on 6 December 2008.
  • O'Sullivan, Archangel (1997), Brendan Behan: A Life, Dublin: Blackwater Press, p. xviii, ISBN .