Patrick Drury

Patrick Drury (born 19 August 1945) is an English character actor best known for playing shopkeeper John O'Leary in the Channel 4 television comedy Father Ted and Ivan in The Beiderbecke Connection.

He then read English at University College Dublin before going on to train at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London.

His film credits include the horror movie The Awakening (1980) starring Charlton Heston, and the 1984 comedy Laughterhouse (also known as Singleton's Pluck) with Ian Holm.

In the 2010 production of The Woman in Black at London's Fortune Theatre Drury played the part of Arthur Kipps.

[2] Drury voiced Ermion in the 2015 video game The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt.