Paddy Joyce
Acting
Born 1923-05-31
Died 2000-07-27
Trieste, Friuli-Venezia Giulia, Italy
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Born Patrizio Schaurek in Trieste, Italy to a Czech father, Frantisek Schaurek, and an Irish mother Eileen (sister of James) Joyce, Paddy Joyce was an Irish actor of British stage, film and television.
Returning to Dublin at the age of five following his father's death, Joyce studied at Belvedere College, the alma mater of his famous uncle. After school, Paddy turned his attention to singing. Initially, he formed a close harmony quartet with three other gentlemen named Four Dots and a Dash, subsequently renamed The Four Ramblers. In 1949, he was part of a trio with two ladies named The Humoresques, which toured Canada with the popular English comedian and actor George Formby.
Turning to actor, Joyce took his mother's maiden name because Schaurek limited him to Eastern European roles. He made his cinematic debut in The Cruel Sea and performed in Lionel Bart and Joan Littlewood's Fings Ain’t Wot They Used T’be in the early 60s, before later working regularly with Ken Loach, appearing in The Big Flame, written by Jim Allen, and Poor Cow. He also starred in Allen's play The Lump.
Joyce was a regular in two of the UK's biggest soaps. Between 1968 and 1974, he had a recurring role as the rag and bone man Tommy Deakin in Coronation Street, and between 1990 and 1993 he played John Royle, the father of Queen Vic owner Eddie Royle (Michael Melia) in EastEnders.
Joyce lived in Muswell Hill, London, with his Canadian wife, Dorothy, and two children. He died of a stroke in London in the year 2000, aged 77.
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Acting
59 credits
EastEnders
Minder
Crown Court
Peak Practice
The Wednesday Play
BBC Play of the Month
The Adventures of Robin Hood
Lovejoy
Father Ted
Churchill's People
The Expert
Festival
Return of the Saint
You Rang, M'Lord?
Terry and June
Please Sir!
Campion
Pennies from Heaven
Londoners
Two's Company
Alice in Wonderland
Erik the Viking
The Jazz Age
S.O.S. Titanic
The Cruel Sea
Ghosts
The Growing Pains of Adrian Mole
Into the Labyrinth
The Growing Pains of PC Penrose
Oh! What a Lovely War
Gone to the Dogs
Poor Cow
Frankenstein: The True Story
Britannia Hospital
The Wackers
The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne
The View from Daniel Pike
Armchair Theatre
Red Monarch
The Chain
Lady Caroline Lamb
Cover Girl Killer
Queen Kong
Sparrows Can't Sing
One Wish Too Many
The Falklands Factor
The Cat Gang
Made
Ireland, Mother Ireland
The Steel Bayonet
The Grass Arena
Tim Driscoll's Donkey
Rooney
Tearaway
Never Mind the Quality, Feel the Width
Dublin Nightmare
Walt, King of the Dumper
The Girl in the Picture
The Grass Widows
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