death_date death_place birth_place name birth_date spouse yearsactive article_title birth_name occupation
01 august 2001 alicante , spain mallow , county cork , ireland joe lynch 16 july 1925 marie nutty 1959 -- 2000 joe lynch -lrb- actor -rrb-
 joseph laurence lynch actor , singer and songwriter
joe lynch -lrb- actor -rrb-

joseph laurence ` joe ' lynch -lrb- 16 july 1925 -- 1 august 2001 -rrb- was an irish actor who enjoyed a long career in both serious drama and light comedy .
he also did voice work for children 's animated series , in particular `` chorlton and the wheelies '' .
he had a fine singing voice and composed songs , such as for the film `` johnny nobody '' -lrb- 1961 -rrb- .
he also recorded the work of other songwriters , including leo maguire 's `` the whistling gypsy '' and dick farrelly 's `` cottage by the lee '' , one of joe 's biggest 1950s recordings .
joe lynch attended the north monastery cbs and first came to fame in ireland in the 1950s when his radio show `` living with lynch '' was broadcast on sunday nights on radio Éireann .
he was also a founding member of the radio Éireann players .
lynch appeared in the popular abc/thames tv sitcom `` never mind the quality , feel the width '' between 1968 and 1970 , and in its spin-off feature film in 1973 .
his other notable film roles included `` the siege of sidney street '' -lrb- 1960 -rrb- , `` the running man '' -lrb- 1963 -rrb- , `` girl with green eyes '' -lrb- 1964 -rrb- , `` the face of fu manchu '' -lrb- 1965 -rrb- , `` ulysses '' -lrb- 1967 -rrb- , `` loot '' -lrb- 1970 -rrb- , `` the mackintosh man '' -lrb- 1973 -rrb- , `` the outsider '' -lrb- 1980 -rrb- , `` if you go down in the woods today '' -lrb- 1981 -rrb- and `` eat the peach '' -lrb- 1986 -rrb- .
in the 1970s lynch made regular guest appearances as elsie tanner 's boyfriend in the long-running granada tv soap `` coronation street '' .
in 1962 , and again in 1977 , lynch won a jacob 's award for his acting on rtÉ television .
by 1979 lynch was back in ireland and made his first appearances as `` dinny byrne '' in the rtÉ soap `` bracken '' .
later the dinny byrne character would feature in the long-running rtÉ soap `` glenroe '' -- along with his catchphrase `` is there a n'thin ' stirrin ? ''
lynch quit glenroe after being `` shamefully treated '' and offered `` small potatoes '' when he asked for a pay rise .
he was also upset that he was not to get a pension .
rtÉ refuted these claims .
lynch criticised rtÉ for preventing him from doing other acting work alongside `` glenroe '' .
`` i was terrible restricted in rtÉ , they would n't let me off for anything , even commercials . ''
lynch was also the voice of the main antagonist grundel the toad of the don bluth film `` thumbelina '' , his final audio work before his death seven years later .
