Dermot Morgan

Comedian

Dermot Morgan was born in Dublin, Leinster, Ireland on March 31st, 1952 and is the Comedian. At the age of 45, Dermot Morgan biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, TV shows, and networth are available.

Other Names / Nick Names
Dermot John Morgan
Date of Birth
March 31, 1952
Nationality
Ireland
Place of Birth
Dublin, Leinster, Ireland
Death Date
Feb 28, 1998 (age 45)
Zodiac Sign
Aries
Profession
Actor, Film Actor, Television Actor
Dermot Morgan Height, Weight, Eye Color and Hair Color

At 45 years old, Dermot Morgan has this physical status:

Height
188cm
Weight
Not Available
Hair Color
Salt and Pepper
Eye Color
Blue
Build
Average
Measurements
Not Available
Dermot Morgan Religion, Education, and Hobbies
Religion
Not Available
Hobbies
Not Available
Education
Not Available
Dermot Morgan Spouse(s), Children, Affair, Parents, and Family
Spouse(s)
Susanne Garmatz
Children
3
Dating / Affair
Not Available
Parents
1979-1998
Dermot Morgan Life

Dermot John Morgan (31 March 1952 – 28 February 1998), an Irish comedian and actor who appeared in Father Ted Crilly on Channel 4's Father Ted.

Early life

Morgan was born in Dublin, the son of Hilda "Holly" (née Stokes) and artist and sculptor Donnchadh Morgan. His father died of an aneurysm early in life, leaving Holly with four children: Dermot, Paul, Denise, and Ruth, the last of whom died in childhood. Morgan studied English literature and philosophy at Oatlands College in Stillorgan and University College Dublin (UCD). He honed his comedy skills during his stay in Dublin; he also fronted a country and Irish band named Big Gom and the Imbeciles, a 'tribute' act to Big Tom and the Mainliners, a major Irish band of the period. After graduating, he spent time as an English tutor at St Michael's College in Ailesbury Road and then became a full-time performer.

Personal life

Morgan was married to Susanne Garmatz, a German woman with whom he had two sons. He later began a friendship with Fiona Clarke, with whom he had another son.

Morgan, although he had been raised Catholic and had briefly considered becoming a priest in childhood, became an atheist in his later life, and he was critical of the Catholic Church. He favored Irish football team UCD FC and Chelsea FC, both in England and England.

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Dermot Morgan Career

Career

Morgan made his media debut on the Morning Ireland radio show hosted by Gene Martin, whose sister Ella was the mother of one of Morgan's relatives. Morgan made the leap into radio and then television through this intercourse.

Morgan came to prominence as a member of Mike Murphy's highly acclaimed RTÉ television show The Live Mike team. Morgan appeared on various shows from 1979 to 1982. Morgan lampooned the rampant Modernism within the Post-Vatican II Roman Catholic Church in Ireland by introducing Father Trendy, a wishy-washy, trying-to-be-cool hippie-priest (modelled after Father Brian D'Arcy). Father Trendy wore an Elvis-style haircut and occasionally a leather jacket. In two-minute'sermons' to the camera, he was also encouraged to draw absurd parallels between religious life and secular interests. Morgan's other characters included a bigoted GAA member who waved his hurley around while verbally expressing his pet hates.

"In both the Wolfe Tones and the Irish rebel songs, you will have a lot of blood and guts and thunder in them," Morgan said. During a raid of the Black and Tans during the Irish War of Independence, he performed a rebellion song of his own, a parody of Thomas Osborne Davis' "A Country Once Again" about Fido, a dog that saves his IRA master by eating a hand grenade. "It must have been something he ate" when the dog farts and the grenade detonates, the British thought. "I hope that I will live to see Fido an Alsatian once more," the song climaxed.

In December 1985, Morgan released Thank You Very Much Mr. Eastwood, a comedy single. It was a fawning praise given by internationally renowned Irish boxer Barry McGuigan's manager, Barney Eastwood, at the end of several bouts. McGuigan, Ronald Reagan, Bob Geldof, and Pope John Paul II were among the single 'featured' lines on the Irish singles chart in 1985, and was the top 'featured' line.

Morgan's greatest Irish broadcasting success came in the late 1980s on the Saturday morning radio comedy show Scrap Saturday, in which Morgan, co-scriptwriter Gerard Stembridge, Owen Roe, and Pauline McLynn mocked Ireland's political, industry, and media establishment. With Haughey's dismissive approach toward Mara and the latter's adoring and groveling posture towards his boss earned critical praise, the show's treatment of the relationship between the ever-controversial Taoiseach Charles Haughey and his press secretary PJ Mara proved particularly popular, with Haughey's dismissive tone towards him.

Morgan chastised Haughey's propensity for claiming a family's presence in virtually every area of Ireland he visited by referring to a famous advertisement for Harp beer, which played on the image of someone returning home and seeking friends.

The "double act" in Haughey and his advisors to opposition Fine Gael TD Michael Noonan as the Limerick disk jockey "Morning Noon'an Night" became the star turn in a series that mocked both sides of the political divide. A national outcry erupted when RTÉ cut the show in the early 1990s. Morgan slammed the decision, calling it "a shameless act of broadcasting cowardice and political subpoena." "The programme is not being cancelled," an RTÉ spokesman said.

It's just not being continued!"

Morgan was given a Jacob's Award by the Irish national newspaper radio critics in 1991 for his contribution to Scrap Saturday.

Morgan, who was already a celebrity in Ireland, gained his first break in Britain with Channel 4's Irish sitcom Father Ted, which aired on three series from 1995 to 1998. Many actors had attempted to perform in the role, but Morgan's enthusiasm won him the role. Father Ted examines three erroneously Catholic priests, whose transgressions led them to their exile to the fictional Craggy Island off the coast of County Galway.

Father Ted received the BAFTA award for Best Comedy in 1996. Morgan was also named Top TV Comedian of the Year, and McLynn was named Best TV Comedy Actress in the same year. Father Ted received his second BAFTA for Best Comedy in 1999, with Morgan being named Best Comedy Performance posthumously.

In an interview with Morgan on The Late Late Show in 1996, Morgan said he was writing a screenplay called Miracle of the Magyars, based on a true story in the 1950s, when the Archbishop of Dublin barred Catholics from attending a football match between the Republic of Ireland and Yugoslavia on religious and spiritual grounds. Yugoslavia prevailed in the match 4–1. Morgan intended to use Hungary as the country's opposition party, hence the name. He had completed the screenplay at the time of his death in 1998, but the film never was made.

Morgan's first project after Father Ted was supposed to be reunited, a comedy about two retired footballers sharing a flat in London. Morgan was drafting the script and hoped to participate in "an Eamon Dunphy-type who had already gone to work in journalism but had to live with an old football buddy," according to former manager John Fischer. Mel Smith was in talks to find out what was the friend's role.

Morgan had been hired to write a drama for the BBC by Morgan.

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