T.P. McKenna

About T.P. McKenna

The Cinema Museum celebrates one of the greats of British TV drama, Irish actor T.P. McKenna.

From cult classics of the 60s to Inspector Morse’s very last suspect, he was a master of TV inscrutables, appearing as sharp suited villains in The Avengers and The Saint; men of intrigue in Callan, The Sweeney, Holocaust and Doctor Who; and countless conniving aristocrats in more than 150 roles.

Directed in films by Sam Peckinpah, Miloš Forman, Tony Richardson, Charles Crichton and the great John Ford, he shared many a fine screen moment with the likes of Robert Mitchum, Dustin Hoffman, Christopher Plummer, Helen Mirren, Stanley Baker, Ursula Andress, Michael Caine, Anthony Hopkins, John Gielgud and Richard Burton.

Stephen McKenna (in conversation with filmmaker John Walsh) is the evening's expert guide as he leads us on a voyage around his larger than life father, recalling a stellar journey from rural bank clerk to the 'actor's actor', in a host of treasured memories and archive extracts.

Completing the evening is a rare screening of the award-winning chiller, A Child’s Voice. First seen in 1978 as part of the BBC series of Christmastime ghost stories, T.P. McKenna stars as Ainsley Rupert Macreadie, ‘the disturbing gentleman of the wireless,’ whose late-night horror stories fill his listeners with a certain dread, until one tale takes on a disturbing life of its own.

Doors open at 18.30, for a 19.30 start.

Refreshments will be available in our licensed cafe/bar.