Billy Boyle, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

    

Billy Boyle

Irish actor/Entertainer

Date of Birth: 24-Feb-1945

Place of Birth: Dublin, Leinster, Ireland

Profession: actor, stage actor, television actor

Nationality: Ireland

Zodiac Sign: Pisces


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About Billy Boyle

  • Billy Boyle is an Irish actor on British film, television and stage.
  • He is a veteran of the West End stage having played leading roles in over 15 hit shows.
  • In his first West End musical Maggie May he was nominated as best newcomer.
  • Gower Champion then chose him to play Barnaby in Hello Dolly at The Theatre Royal Drury Lane.
  • He appeared in Canterbury Tales at the Phoenix Theatre as The Clerk of Oxford.
  • Harold Hobson, The Times critic said, "He was a breath of fresh air in the West-End".
  • He then went on to play leading roles in No Sex Please, We're British, Billy, What's a Nice Country, The Rivals, Love, Lust, & Marriage, Some Like it Hot, Disney's Beauty and the Beast, and in the original cast of Dirty Dancing.
  • Lately he has appeared as Grandpa George and Grandpa Joe in Charlie and The Chocolate Factory at Drury Lane.
  • In 2016 he was Major Bouvier and Norman Vincent Peale in the smash hit Grey Gardens.
  • He followed this playing Arvide in Guys and Dolls at the Phoenix Theatre in the West End.
  • He has had his own very successful television series in Ireland It's Billy Boyle as well as leading roles in Trail of Guilt, the award-winning The Grass Arena, The Bretts, as well as many guest appearances in EastEnders, The Professionals, Coronation Street, Father Ted, etc.
  • In the late 1970s, Boyle was cast as 'Ronald McDonald' in the European TV commercials and in all print media for the fast food chain McDonald's.
  • He was the last 'straight man' to Basil Brush on BBC1's The Basil Brush Show and later presented a programme, Dance Crazy for ITV, on the history of dance with Lesley Judd.
  • Lately he has been seen in Dirk Gently, for BBC Four and Lead Balloon.
  • His many films include Stanley Kubrick's Barry Lyndon, Groupie Girl, Side by Side, Shergar, Wild Geese II, The Scarlet and the Black, Round Ireland with a Fridge and A United Kingdom.

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