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Real life people Fr Ted characters were based on.

  • 03-12-2020 09:23AM
    #1
    Hangdogroad
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    Not so much the main regular four, Ted, Dougal, Jack and Mrs Doyle but a lot of the one off guests and recurring supporting characters. Bishop Brennan is clearly inspired by Eamon Casey. Niamh Connolly the feminist singer is based on Sinead O Connor and Eoin Maclove is clearly Wee Daniel. I'm curious about who Harry Sellers was based on.


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  • #2
    weldoninhio
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    Hangdogroad wrote: »
    Not so much the main regular four, Ted, Dougal, Jack and Mrs Doyle but a lot of the one off guests and recurring supporting characters. Bishop Brennan is clearly inspired by Eamon Casey. Niamh Connolly the feminist singer is based on Sinead O Connor and Eoin Maclove is clearly Wee Daniel. I'm curious about who Harry Sellers was based on.

    Henry Kelly


  • #3
    Bob Harris
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    Graham Norton pretty much played himself as Noel Furlong.


  • #4
    Hangdogroad
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    weldoninhio wrote: »
    Henry Kelly

    He must have been fond of the sauce.


  • #5
    Gregor Samsa
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    Richard Wilson from the episode "The Mainland" is based on Victor Meldrew.
    There is only one appropriate response to this comment.


  • #6
    Bob Harris
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    Gregor Samsa wrote: »
    Richard Wilson from the episode "The Mainland" is based on Victor Meldrew.
    There is only one appropriate response to this comment.

    I cannot accept that to be true.


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  • #7
    Snotty
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    Father Billy O'Dwyer a.k.a. The SpinMaster = Brian D'Arcy??


  • #8
    E mac
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    Mrs Doyle is pretty much every rural housewife born in the 40/50's.


  • #9
    Hulk Hands
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    Many of the real side characters are the best ones imo, reflecting often seen characters in Ireland. Such as the overtly racist oul one, or Fr. Stones father who viewed his priest son as a complete disappointment, or the rich farmers in the sheep episode. Loved the bit about the priest with Larry Duff held up because he was running guns for the IRA

    The John and Mary couple was a simple stereotype for pre divorce Ireland but worked well too


  • #10
    Bikerman2019
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    We willl never see the genius of this again. :(


  • #11
    the purple tin
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    Hangdogroad wrote: »
    Not so much the main regular four, Ted, Dougal, Jack and Mrs Doyle but a lot of the one off guests and recurring supporting characters. Bishop Brennan is clearly inspired by Eamon Casey. Niamh Connolly the feminist singer is based on Sinead O Connor and Eoin Maclove is clearly Wee Daniel. I'm curious about who Harry Sellers was based on.
    Niamh connolly was also partly based on Dolores O'Riordan I always thought.
    Was the female writer who Ted fell in love with based on anybody i wonder?


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  • #12
    whisky_galore
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    Bishop Brennan is an Eamonn Casey/Archbishop John Charles McQuaid mash up.

    Dermot Morgans pre Ted Fr Trendy was a thinly disguised parody of Fr Bryan Darcy.


  • #13
    Philipx
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    Two I wonder about:

    Fr. Fintan Stack, (Brendan Grace)

    And of course, Pat Mustard.

    I did the visit the house a few years ago & had the tea....which was served by a girl who was one of the Hairy Babies :D


  • #14
    Mad_maxx
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    Hangdogroad wrote: »
    Not so much the main regular four, Ted, Dougal, Jack and Mrs Doyle but a lot of the one off guests and recurring supporting characters. Bishop Brennan is clearly inspired by Eamon Casey. Niamh Connolly the feminist singer is based on Sinead O Connor and Eoin Maclove is clearly Wee Daniel. I'm curious about who Harry Sellers was based on.

    bishop brennan isnt based on eamon casey , he could be based on any hypocritical man of the cloth


  • #15
    Obvious Desperate Breakfasts
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    Mad_maxx wrote: »
    bishop brennan isnt based on eamon casey , he could be based on any hypocritical man of the cloth

    He is overtly based on Casey. The videotape of him and his girlfriend (not at there was a tape of Casey). The voice, which is exactly what Casey sounded like.


  • #16
    [Deleted User]
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    Philipx wrote: »
    I did the visit the house a few years ago & had the tea....which was served by a girl who was one of the Hairy Babies :D

    Thats what she told you and you believed her?


  • #17
    Hyperbollix
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    the purple tin wrote: »
    Niamh connolly was also partly based on Dolores O'Riordan I always thought.
    Was the female writer who Ted fell in love with based on anybody i wonder?

    Yeah, she had the look of Dolores and the attitude of Sinead O'Connor.

    As for the writer, Marian Keyes maybe?


  • #18
    Muahahaha
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    Obvious Desperate Breakfasts wrote: »
    He is overtly based on Casey. The videotape of him and his girlfriend (not at there was a tape of Casey). The voice, which is exactly what Casey sounded like.

    yeah plus the video tape shows the secret son in America which was exactly based on Bishop Casey

    I wonder was Father Jesop based on anyone, he was a kind of bishops enforcer

    Cant think that Pat Mustard was based on anyone apart from the milkman sleeping around stereotype.


  • #19
    DellyBelly
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    Muahahaha wrote: »
    yeah plus the video tape shows the secret son in America which was exactly based on Bishop Casey

    I wonder was Father Jesop based on anyone, he was a kind of bishops enforcer

    Cant think that Pat Mustard was based on anyone apart from the milkman sleeping around stereotype.

    Think Pat Mustard was based on Sony Knowles. He looked like him even...


  • #20
    KevRossi
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    DellyBelly wrote: »
    Think Pat Mustard was based on Sony Knowles. He looked like him even...

    Graham Linehan based him on a fella Roddy Doyle knew from Darndale called George Burgess.


  • #21
    DellyBelly
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    KevRossi wrote: »
    Graham Linehan based him on a fella Roddy Doyle knew from Darndale called George Burgess.

    George Burgess was a character in the Commitments as well...


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  • #22
    The Mulk
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    DellyBelly wrote: »
    George Burgess was a character in the Commitments as well...

    Jimmy Rabbitte was in the Commitments too, and rabbits followed Fr. Jack....


  • #23
    Hector Savage
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    Philipx wrote: »
    Two I wonder about:

    Fr. Fintan Stack, (Brendan Grace)

    And of course, Pat Mustard.

    I did the visit the house a few years ago & had the tea....which was served by a girl who was one of the Hairy Babies :D

    You can visit the house and have tea !! ?

    I went there around 2005/06 and took a photo at the gate, but it was a private residence.


  • #24
    Gruffalux
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    Who is Father Stone based on?
    My favourite scene...:pac:

    ''I'm having a ba-ath''...

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cCzebM-zZzY


  • #25
    dan1895
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    Hector Savage wrote: »
    You can visit the house and have tea !! ?

    I went there around 2005/06 and took a photo at the gate, but it was a private residence.

    It's open during Ted Fest. Took a visit last year. Heart dropped when I walked in the door and it was completely different to what you see in the show. Then I realised that I knew that already and that I'm a feckin eejit.


  • #26
    Muahahaha
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    Yeah the owners of the house do tea and cakes during tourist season. They opened it up for that Father Ted documentary Small, Far Away screened a couple of years ago and yeah of course its nothing like the set that was in a studio in London anyway


  • #27
    Penfailed
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    Hector Savage wrote: »
    You can visit the house and have tea !! ?

    I went there around 2005/06 and took a photo at the gate, but it was a private residence.

    If you ring to make an appointment, you can call in for tea. I had coffee.

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  • #28
    cml387
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    I've never seen this confirmed, but the upstairs of the parochial house bears a remarkable resemblance to the upstairs of Fawlty Towers. Have a look sometime.


  • #29
    Obvious Desperate Breakfasts
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    I don’t enjoy Clare Grogan in the Sinead/Dolores role. Her Irish accent is shockin’ and that’s especially a problem in a show filled with natural Irish accents. I think Linehan wanted her on the show because she was a teenage crush of his but he should have gone with a different actress. It’s a shame because the character is really well-written.


  • #30
    Buddy Bubs
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    The female solicitor that slapped Ted for being sexist and condescending is based on every woman that has had the good fortune to work alongside me


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  • #31
    the purple tin
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    The WW2 mad priest with the nazi war criminal hidden in his house was a sly nod to the Vatican's support for the nazi regime during the war.


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