Ronan O'Casey Death
Ronan passed away on April 12, 2012 at the age of 89 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
When did Ronan O'Casey die?
April 12, 2012How old was Ronan O'Casey when died?
89Where did Ronan O'Casey die? What was the location of death?
Los Angeles, California, USA
Ronan O'Casey Birthday and Date of Death
Ronan O'Casey was born on June 15, 1922 and died on April 12, 2012. Ronan was 89 years old at the time of death.
Birthday: June 15, 1922
Date of Death: April 12, 2012
Age at Death: 89
Ronan O'Casey - Biography
Ronan O'Casey obituaryby Matt O'CaseyMy father, Ronan O'Casey, known as Case to family and friends, has died aged 89. He was a distinguished actor, producer and writer who enjoyed a picaresque life and career to the full.He was born in Montreal, Canada, to a poet father, Michael Casey, and actor mother, Margaret Sheehy, from Dublin, who had co-starred with the young James Joyce in his first stage role. Ronan began acting in his mother's company in Montreal at the age of eight and, following theatrical and vaudeville touring, moved to Dublin and then to London.He found early success as a stylish character actor in such postwar films as The Mudlark (1950), Talk of a Million (1951) and Norman Wisdom's Trouble in Store (1953), going on to play the prisoner of Room 101 in 1984 (1956) and the sergeant in Nicholas Ray's war film Bitter Victory (1957). While starring in the West End in Detective Story he met my mother, the actor and singer Louie Ramsay, whom he married in 1956.Case's comedy talents then brought him his best known role, as Jeff Rogers, Canadian son-in-law of Peggy Mount, in the sitcom The Larkins (1958-64). He also became host of ITV's charades gameshow Don't Say a Word (1963), before being cast as Vanessa Redgrave's lover, the "blow-up" of Antonioni's Blow-Up (1966).He went behind the lens and as literary head of the production company Commonwealth United associate-produced Terry Southern's The Magic Christian (1969) with Ringo Starr, Peter Sellers and an Apple records soundtrack by Badfinger. Case and Louie divorced in 1979. After moving to the US in 1980 and marrying the writer Carol Tavris, he had roles in many US television shows, including LA Law, Easy Street, Falcon Crest and Dallas, and, with some irony for a lifelong atheist, became the Bishop of Santa Barbara in the soap of the same name.In later years he wrote and staged a one-man play in Los Angeles on the poetry of William Butler Yeats, Yeats by O'Casey. Never short of a sparkling anecdote or spectacular profanity, Case became an evergreen feature of West Hollywood poker games, dog parks and farmers' markets, where he found choice ingredients for his superb cooking. He turned his acting skill to perfect use as a reader at the local Third St elementary school, where children joyously greeted him as "Mr Ronan".He is survived by his beloved Carol, me, and his grandchildren, Jack, Conor and Ruby.
