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Joseph O'Conor (14 February 1916 – 21 January 2001) was an Anglo-Irish actor and playwright. O'Conor was born in Dublin (or perhaps Seattle) on 14 February 1916, the son of Frances (née Call) and Daniel O'Conor. His family moved to London, where he attended the Cardinal Vaughan Memorial School, the University of London and RADA. He made his professional stage debut in 1939 playing Flavius, Trebonius, and Titinius in a modern-dress production of Julius Caesar at the Embassy Theatre, and subsequently at His Majesty's Theatre. Also in 1939 he married Naita Moore; they had two... MORE

Joseph O'Conor (14 February 1916 – 21 January 2001) was an Anglo-Irish actor and playwright. O'Conor was born in Dublin (or perhaps Seattle) on 14 February 1916, the son of Frances (née Call) and Daniel O'Conor. His family moved to London, where he attended the Cardinal Vaughan Memorial School, the University of London and RADA. He made his professional stage debut in 1939 playing Flavius, Trebonius, and Titinius in a modern-dress production of Julius Caesar at the Embassy Theatre, and subsequently at His Majesty's Theatre. Also in 1939 he married Naita Moore; they had two children. Returning to the stage in 1946 he played a wide variety of roles in London, but with an emphasis on Shakespeare. He spent a season under Donald Wolfit at the Bedford, Camden Town, alternating Iago and Othello with him in Othello (1949) and taking the title role in Hamlet (1949), with Wolfit as the Gravedigger. O'Conor had a strong spiritual side which most eloquently found expression in a series of productions at religious-drama festivals and, unforgettably, as Christ in the York Mystery Plays (1951 and 1954). A prohibition on the representation of God or Christ still existed in England at that time, so LESS