Denis O'Dea

Denis O'Dea (April 26, 1905 – November 5, 1978) was an Irish stage and film actor.

O'Dea was a leading member of Dublin's Abbey Theatre, where his work led to a number of notable film roles, including two mid-1930s John Ford films, The Informer and The Plough and the Stars (1936), and the part of the police inspector in pursuit of IRA man James Mason in Carol Reed's Odd Man Out (1947).

Other films in which he appeared include: The Mark Of Cain (1948), The Fallen Idol (1948, again for Reed, and again as a police inspector), Alfred Hitchcock's Under Capricorn (1949), The Bad Lord Byron (1949), Landfall (1949), Disney's Treasure Island (1950), Marry Me (1950), Captain Horatio Hornblower (1951), The Long Dark Hall (1951), Mogambo (1953; another John Ford film), Niagara (1953), Never Take No For An Answer (1953), Raoul Walsh's Sea Devils (1953), The Rising of the Moon (1957), Captain Lightfoot (1957), Darby O'Gill and the Little People (1959) and Esther and the King (1960).

Family

He was married to actress Siobhán McKenna from 1956 until his death in 1978 at the age of 73; they had one son, Donnacha O'Dea.

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