Patrick Drury

Patrick Drury is a character actor best known for playing shopkeeper John O'Leary in the Channel 4 television comedy Father Ted.

His film credits include the horror movie The Awakening (1980) starring Charlton Heston, and the 1984 comedy Laughterhouse (also known as Singleton's Pluck) with Ian Holm. Drury plays the part of Arthur Kipps in the London production of The Woman in Black. In 2016, he played the role of the Lord Chamberlain in the Netflix series The Crown.

He voiced Ermion in the 2015 video game The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt.

Drury was married to actress Caroline Langrishe before divorcing in 1995. They have two daughters, Rosalind and Leonie.