David Kelly, Dermot Breen and others at the Imperial Hotel

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Title

David Kelly, Dermot Breen and others at the Imperial Hotel

Subject

Cork Film Festival, David Kelly, Dermot Breen, Jim O'Brien, Imperial Hotel, Mary Larkin

Description

This is a black and white photo of the Irish actor David Kelly with festival director Dermot Breen, Jim O’Brien, and an unidentified companion. The small group are arriving into the marble lobby of the Imperial Hotel on the South Mall in Cork. Kelly, on the right next to Dermot Breen, is wearing a tweed jacket and tie, with light-coloured trousers and two-tone brogues.

Born in Dublin, Kelly (1929-2012) was an Irish actor with a recognisable presence on the Irish stage and screen. His notable work includes Strumpet City (RTÉ, 1980), Into the West (Mike Newell, 1992), Waking Ned (Kirk Jones, 1998), and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (Tim Burton, 2005). Into the West was shown at the 2019 festival and is also preserved in the IFI Irish Film Archive. Kelly had an uncredited role in The McKenzie Break (Lamont Johnson, 1970) which starred Brian Keith and the Irish actor Mary Larkin who came to the Cork festival in 1980. Around the time of this picture, which is dated 1974, Kelly would play the inept builder in an episode of Fawlty Towers ('The Builders', 1975) which won him great acclaim.

In an Irish Examiner article by John Daly looking back at the film festival, David Kelly is quoted recalling the train journey from Dublin to Cork: "Irish hospitality was at its finest on that train, an elegant Orient Express atmosphere wrapped in a thoroughly Celtic welcome that made strangers who got on in Dublin lifelong friends by the time it arrived in Cork. Revelry and romance are the two words that come mostly to mind when I recall the journey." (Irish Examiner, 04.11.2017.)

Creator

University College Cork, Cork Film Festival

Source

Cork Film Festival Collection

Publisher

University College Cork

Date

1974

Rights

This item is licenced with a Creative Commons Attribution NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) licence. All rights reserved. Please credit Cork International Film Festival & provide a link back to this site.

Format

Photo
TIFF
JPEG

Language

English, eng

Coverage

1974
Cork, Ireland

Still Image Item Type Metadata

Original Format

Photo

Physical Dimensions

257 x 201mm

Collection

Citation

University College Cork, Cork Film Festival, “David Kelly, Dermot Breen and others at the Imperial Hotel,” Cork International Film Festival Archive, accessed October 10, 2024, https://corkfilmfest.ucc.ie/items/show/371.