Pat Laffan

Known for ActingBorn 1939-06-08Died 2019-03-14County Meath, Ireland

Pat Laffan was an Irish actor best known for his roles as Georgie Burgess in The Snapper and the milkman Pat Mustard in the Father Ted episode Speed 3. Laffan grew up on a farm in Co. Meath and began his career as an actor after graduating from Engineering in UCD. A prolific theatre actor, Laffan was a member of the Abbey Theatre Company in the 1960s and 1970s, and was the Director of the Peacock Theatre for most of the 1970s. He directed in the Gate Theatre from 1979 to 1982. Laffan had around 40 film credits to his name - including turns in Steven Spielberg's War Horse (2011), Intermission (2003), The General (1998) and Leap Year (2010) - and 30 credits on TV, Moone Boy, EastEnders and Ripper Street, to name a few. He died on March 14th, 2019 at the age of 79.Read more

Movies & web series

Journey to Knock

Events at Drimaghleen

Father Ted

A War of Children

Barry Lyndon

I Can't... I Can't...

Ripper Street

Before I Sleep

War Horse

My Left Foot: The Story of Christy Brown

Sharpe's Sword

A Ferret Called Mickey

The Queen

Leap Year

Park

War of the Buttons

The General

The Treaty

An Awfully Big Adventure

The Snapper

Girl with Green Eyes

Intermission

The Playboys

Durango

The Runway

The Saint

The Boys & Girl from County Clare

Quirke

ScreenPlay

Hear My Song

After Midnight

How Harry Became a Tree

The Serpent's Kiss

Space Truckers

Trojan Eddie

Pigs

Laid to Rest

When Hitchcock met O'Casey

Ballyfin: Portrait of an Irish Country House

The Wednesdays

To The Western World

Under And Over