John Emmet Bergin (3 June 1944 – 15 March 2024) was an Irish actor, best known for playing Dick Moran in the soap opera Glenroe.
[2] His father, Paddy Bergin, had worked for Carlow Sugar Factory and was a trade union official and Labour Party politician.
[5] Bergin's other stage roles in the following years included parts in Sam Shepard's True West, Seán O'Casey's The Silver Tassie,[1] and Henrik Ibsen's Hedda Gabler.
Two years later Bergin became a household name when he was cast in the role of solicitor Dick Moran in the RTÉ soap opera Glenroe.
[7][8] Bergin later appeared in the medical drama series The Clinic and was cast as Sunday Independent editor Aengus Fanning in Veronica Guerin in 2003.