He starred as the villainous Dr. Durand Durand in Roger Vadim's 1968 counterculture classic Barbarella, from which the band Duran Duran took their name. O'Shea reprised his role as Durand Durand in the 1984 Duran Duran concert/concept film Arena (An Absurd Notion). O'Shea died on April 2nd after a short illness in Manhattan, New York, United States.
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| - He starred as the villainous Dr. Durand Durand in Roger Vadim's 1968 counterculture classic Barbarella, from which the band Duran Duran took their name. O'Shea reprised his role as Durand Durand in the 1984 Duran Duran concert/concept film Arena (An Absurd Notion). O'Shea died on April 2nd after a short illness in Manhattan, New York, United States.
- Milo O'Shea played Chief Justice Roy Ashland. The veteran character actor is perhaps best known for his roles in The Verdict and the 1968 version of Romeo and Juliet. His role on The West Wing was his final filmed acting role. He died on April 2, 2013.
- Milo O'Shea was born in Dublin on 2nd June, 1926. He became an actor in the 1940s working principally on the stage but moved into films in the 1950s with his best known appearances being in the following decade in Ulysses, Barbarella and Romeo and Juliet. He was best known in the late 1960s in the UK for his starring role in the BBC sitcom Me Mammy with Yootha Joyce. He has been active in American film, television and Broadway stage productions and he and his actress wife Kitty Sullivan have adopted US citizenship.
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| - Milo O'Shea was born in Dublin on 2nd June, 1926. He became an actor in the 1940s working principally on the stage but moved into films in the 1950s with his best known appearances being in the following decade in Ulysses, Barbarella and Romeo and Juliet. He was best known in the late 1960s in the UK for his starring role in the BBC sitcom Me Mammy with Yootha Joyce. He has been active in American film, television and Broadway stage productions and he and his actress wife Kitty Sullivan have adopted US citizenship. In 1966 he appeared in the Whose Been Sleeping in Our Beds? episode of the Coronation Street spin-off Pardon the Expression as the itinerant Uncle Mike.
- He starred as the villainous Dr. Durand Durand in Roger Vadim's 1968 counterculture classic Barbarella, from which the band Duran Duran took their name. O'Shea reprised his role as Durand Durand in the 1984 Duran Duran concert/concept film Arena (An Absurd Notion). O'Shea died on April 2nd after a short illness in Manhattan, New York, United States.
- Milo O'Shea played Chief Justice Roy Ashland. The veteran character actor is perhaps best known for his roles in The Verdict and the 1968 version of Romeo and Juliet. His role on The West Wing was his final filmed acting role. He died on April 2, 2013.
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