Albert Sharpe (15 April 1885 – 13 February 1970) was an Irish stage and film actor. His most famous roles were those of Disney's Darby O'Gill and the Little People and as Finian McLonergan in the Original Broadway production of the musical Finian's Rainbow. (the film version, made in 1968, had Fred Astaire in the role.) On screen he played Fiona's father Andrew in the MGM musical Brigadoon. He was also a member of the Abbey Players. His last ten years were spent in retirement. He died in 1970 in Belfast at the age of 84.
Attend Christian Brothers School in Belfast and started show business as a boy there selling programs at the Empire theater and as a magician's assistant.
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Played many vaudeville houses while touring Europe in a 50-year career, at one time partnering in a comic act with actor Joe Carney.
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Walt Disney had seen him in the Broadway production of "Finian's Rainbow." He kept him in mind for the title role in the long delayed "Darby O'Gill and the Little People" which wasn't made until 1959.
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Talented Irish actor, long a member of the famous Abbey Players, but perhaps best known in America for creating the role of Finian McLonergan in the original Broadway production of "Finian's Rainbow" in 1947 and starring in the title role of Disney's "Darby O'Gill and the Little People" twelve years later. His last ten years were spent in quiet retirement until his death in 1970 at the age of 85.
Actor
Title
Year
Status
Character
The Day They Robbed the Bank of England
1960
Albert Tosher Sparrow
Darby O'Gill and the Little People
1959
Darby O'Gill
Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color
1959
TV Series
Darby O'Gill
Brigadoon
1954
Andrew Campbell
Face to Face
1952
First Mate Brown ('The Secret Sharer')
You Never Can Tell
1951
Grandpa Hathaway
The Highwayman
1951
Forsythe
Royal Wedding
1951
James Ashmond
The Bigelow Theatre
1950
TV Series
Adventure in Baltimore
1949
Dan Fletcher
Portrait of Jennie
1948
Moore
The Return of October
1948
Vince the Tout
Up in Central Park
1948
Timothy Moore
I See a Dark Stranger
1946
Irish Landlord
Soundtrack
Title
Year
Status
Character
Darby O'Gill and the Little People
1959
performer: "The Wishing Song"
Archive Footage
Title
Year
Status
Character
The Age of Believing: The Disney Live Action Classics
2008
TV Movie documentary
Darby O'Gill
Known for movies
Darby O'Gill and the Little People (1959) as Darby O'Gill
$300,000
