Milo O'Shea | Dublin-born actor, 86
Milo O'Shea, 86, a versatile Dublin-born stage and screen actor known for his famously bristling, agile eyebrows and roles in such disparate films as Ulysses, Barbarella, and Franco Zeffirelli's Romeo and Juliet, died Tuesday, April 2, in New York after a short illness, according to Irish news accounts.
Familiar both in starring and supporting roles, Mr. O'Shea, who also appeared in many popular television series, including Cheers, Frasier, The West Wing, and The Golden Girls.He played the cantankerous trial judge in the 1982 film The Verdict, starring Paul Newman.
Mr. O'Shea made his Broadway debut opposite Eli Wallach in the 1968 play Staircase, said to be perhaps the American theater's first effort to depict gay men in a serious way. He was nominated for a Tony Award for that performance and for his role as a complacent, luxury-loving priest in the 1981 play Mass Appeal.
Mr. O'Shea, who moved to the United States in 1976 and became a U.S. citizen, lived in New York with his wife, actress Kitty Sullivan. She survives him, along with sons Colm and Steven from a previous marriage, and several grandchildren. - Los Angeles Times
