# Tony Guilfoyle

Tony Guilfoyle (born 30 March 1960) is an Irish actor. He was born in County Wicklow, Ireland, and was educated at the Drama Centre from 1970 to 1973. He is best known for his recurring role as the accident-prone Father Larry Duff, in the TV comedy series Father Ted.
In theatre, he is best known for his long collaboration with Quebecois theatre director Robert Lepage and the latter's production company Ex Machina. Included in that association are a staging of Mahler's Kindertotenlieder at the Lincoln Center and world tour, The Geometry Of Miracles performed at the Royal National Theatre and worldwide, The Dragons' Trilogy performed at the Barbican Theatre in London and internationally, and their latest collaboration, Playing Cards: SPADES, the first in a planned tetralogy covering the four suits of deck of playing cards, which played at the Roundhouse in London and internationally. He has other numerous and varied theatre credits, from Shopping and F**king at the Royal Court Theatre in the West End, to The Iceman Cometh at the Almeida Theatre in London, with Kevin Spacey, and Hanif Kureshi's play Outskirts with the Royal Shakespeare Company at the Donmar Warehouse in London.
In cinema, Guilfoyle played the lead, Rory, in The Return (1986), for Film Four, and the Magistrate in The Murder of Stephen Lawrence, written and directed by Paul Greengrass. On TV, in addition to playing Father Larry Duff on Father Ted, he starred in the HBO/BBC historical drama Rome, playing Pothinus, an Egyptian eunuch and pharaoh's aide. Other TV credits include a role in a 1985 episode of Juliet Bravo, as unhinged hostage taker Moll Kelly, and brief roles in The Musketeers, Merlin, The Virgin Queen, Fanny Hill, and Bleak House. In 2016, he appeared as the Bishop of Durham, in the Netflix series The Crown. In October 2019, he appeared as Jack Dacre in an episode of the BBC soap opera Doctors.

## Filmography

| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
| 1981 | Spearhead | Sergeant Brawne | TV series, episode "Loyalties" |
| 1982 | Squadron | Flt. Lt. Tony Jackson | TV series, episode "The Veteran" |
| 1984 | Tucker's Luck | Frank | TV series, 2 episodes |
| 1985 | Juliet Bravo | Moll Kelly | TV series, episode "Hostage to Fortune" |
| 1985 | Black Silk | Terry Reed | TV series, episode "Winner Stays On" |
| 1986 | First Among Equals | Shadow Irish Minister | TV miniseries, episode "#1.8" |
| 1986 | The Return | Rory | TV movie |
| 1986–2002 | Casualty | Lyndsey, Watch Commander | TV series, 6 episodes |
| 1987 | Knights of God | Sergeant | TV series, 2 episodes |
| 1991–2002 | The Bill | Reporter, Terry Downey, Security Manager, John Goulding, Mr. Bailey | TV series, 5 episodes |
| 1992 | Inspector Morse | Journalist One | TV series, episode "Happy Families" |
| 1992 | Between the Lines | Dr. Owen-Smith | TV series, episode "Nothing Personal" |
| 1994 | Wycliffe | Bill Clark | TV series, episode "The Pea Green Boat" |
| 1995 | 99-1 | Smith | TV series, episode "A Game of Two Halves" |
| 1995 | Boon | Clerk, receptionist | TV series, episode "Thieves Like Us" |
| 1995 | Shine on Harvey Moon | RAF Sergeant | TV series, episode "#5.6" |
| 1996 | Father Ted | Father Larry Duff | TV series, 8 episodes |
| 1997 | Gobble | Mr. George Henderson, Colin's boss | TV movie |
| 1997 | Birds of a Feather | Prison Officer | TV series, 2 episodes |
| 1999 | The Murder of Stephen Lawrence | Magistrate | TV movie |
| 2001 | Todesstrafe - Ein Deutscher hinter Gittern | Officer Henderson | TV movie |
| 2002 | NCS: Manhunt | Patsy O'Brien | TV series, episode "Collision Course: Part 1" |
| 2005 | The Golden Hour | Deacon | TV miniseries, episode "#1.2" |
| 2005 | Rome | Pothinus | TV series, episode "Caesarion" |
| 2005 | Bleak House | Lawyer | TV miniseries, episode "#1.15" |
| 2006 | The Virgin Queen | Sir John Brydges | TV miniseries, episode "#1.1" |
| 2006 | The Best Man | Baxter | TV movie |
| 2006 | Murder City | Dr. Simon Kramer | TV series, episode "Death of a Ladies' Man" |
| 2007 | Fanny Hill | Old Clergyman | TV miniseries, episode "#1.1" |
| 2009 | The Conservatory | (voice) | TV short |
| 2009 | Wolves | The Man | TV short |
| 2010 | The Eagleman Stag | Philip | TV short |
| 2010 | Traumdeutung | (voice) | TV short |
| 2012 | Merlin | Sindri | TV series, episode "A Lesson in Vengeance" |
| 2015 | The Musketeers | Chancellor Dupre | TV series, episode "A Marriage of Inconvenience" |
| 2016 | The Crown | Michael Ramsey, Bishop of Durham | TV series, 2 episodes |
| 2017 | Decline and Fall | Vicar | TV miniseries, 2 episodes |
| 2017 | Broken | Father Patrick | TV series, episode "Christina" |
| 2019 | Doctors | Jack Dacre | TV series, episode "Heart to Heart" |