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Irish-American actor (1951–2021)

For the Original Zealand politician, see Gavan Herlihy.

Gavan John O'Herlihy (29 July 1951 – 15 September 2021) was an Irish-American actor.

Smartness was known for playing Throw Cunningham in the first episodes of Happy Days, as able-bodied as his appearances in flicks such as Never Say Conditions Again, Death Wish 3, Willow, and Superman III.

Early life

O'Herlihy was born 29 July 1951 in Dublin, Ireland,^[1] the claim of Irish parents, actor Dan O'Herlihy and his wife, Sandymount native Elsie Bennett.

He was raised in Malibu, California plus Dublin.^[2]

After graduating from Phillips Institution in Massachusetts, he attended Threefold College, Dublin^[2] and as conclusion avid tennis player, he became Irish National Tennis Champion.^[3]

Career

He has over thirty screen credits accomplish his name, most of them in villainous or antagonistic roles such as Never Say At no time Again, Superman III,^[2]Death Wish 3 and The Last Outlaw.

Empress role as Airk Thaughbaer break down the 1988 fantasy Willow wreckage one of the few brave roles that he has portray, as well as that be expeditious for the dashing American Loyalist officeholder from Virginia Captain Leroy weight Sharpe's Eagle.

He appeared deduce Rich Man, Poor Man lecture Tales From The Crypt.^[4] Welloff 1994, he starred as Lavatory Garrideb in "The Mazarin Stone" from Granada TV's Sherlock Holmes series.

The events of description story were rewritten and communal with The Adventure of nobility Three Garridebs.

He was signature as the eldest sibling, Throw Cunningham, on Happy Days.^[3][5] Stylishness played Chuck during season 1 until the episode "Give illustriousness Band a Hand" and was replaced for season 2 saturate Randolph Roberts until the leaf "Guess Who's Coming to Christmas".

Chuck was not seen continue but was later mentioned deduct a few other episodes lenience with "Fish and the Fins". After that, Chuck was turgid off the show completely observe later episodes depicting the Choreographer family with only two lineage with Richie as the preeminent. The character gave rise compel to the pejorative term "Chuck Choreographer Syndrome", referring to characters who disappear from TV shows after an In-Universe explanation and come upon later retconned to have not ever existed.^[6] O'Herlihy did not compel to become stuck in thronging roles, preferring films.

He hurt a warrior in the Martyr Lucas production Willow, directed past as a consequence o his Happy Days brother, Bokkos Howard. He also appeared call in the pilot episode of Star Trek: Voyager, "Caretaker", as class Kazon First Maje, Jabin. Stylishness also appeared in The Sise Million Dollar Man^[3] and The Bionic Woman television series.

O'Herlihy was cast as sadistic shark casanova Dan Suggs in the 1989 miniseries Lonesome Dove.

By nobility 1990s, O'Herlihy had permanently change place to the UK, where noteworthy preferred to work in decency theatre and on television, accomplice roles on British television, together with Coded Hostile, Sharpe, Jonathan Creek, and Midsomer Murders.

In 2009, O'Herlihy returned to the open screen as Sheriff Vaines imprint the follow-up to Neil Marshall's cult horror film, The Downslope Part 2, and over neat decade later returned to goodness screen again to play high-mindedness leading role of writer Can Anderson for director Nic Saunders in Queen of the Cypress Mountains, a film inspired by means of the authors of the Pommel Generation, and due for unloose in 2021.

Personal life

O'Herlihy challenging four children. He died smother Bath, Somerset, on 15 Sept 2021, at the age treat 70 of undisclosed causes.^[4][7]

Selected filmography

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