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Paddy Joyce

Paddy Joyce

Actor · 1923 – 2000 · Trieste, Friuli-Venezia Giulia, Italy

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.

Movies24

  • Movie6.2

    Alice in Wonderland

    1999 · 402 votes

  • Movie5.9

    Erik the Viking

    1989 · 260 votes

  • Movie6.0

    S.O.S. Titanic

    1980 · 43 votes

  • Movie6.6

    Oh! What a Lovely War

    1969 · 54 votes

  • Movie5.3

    Sparrows Can't Sing

    1963 · 25 votes

  • Movie6.9

    The Cruel Sea

    1953 · 85 votes

  • Movie6.4

    Poor Cow

    1967 · 54 votes

  • Movie6.2

    Britannia Hospital

    1982 · 74 votes

  • Movie5.9

    Lady Caroline Lamb

    1972 · 15 votes

  • Movie6.6
  • Movie5.4

    Red Monarch

    1983 · 12 votes

  • Movie5.7
  • Movie8.5

    The Grass Arena

    1991 · 2 votes

  • Movie9.0

    One Wish Too Many

    1956 · 1 votes

  • Movie8.0

    Tim Driscoll's Donkey

    1955 · 2 votes

  • Movie3.5

    Queen Kong

    1976 · 25 votes

  • Movie4.2

    Captured

    1959 · 8 votes

  • Movie6.5
  • Movie
  • Movie
  • Movie7.0

    The Chain

    1984 · 7 votes

  • Movie5.1

    Cover Girl Killer

    1959 · 13 votes

  • Movie7.0

    The Falklands Factor

    1983 · 1 votes

  • Movie10.0

    The Voices in the Park

    1967 · 1 votes

Series24

  • TV4.3

    EastEnders

    1985 · 230 votes

  • TV5.7

    Crown Court

    1972 · 6 votes

  • TV5.2

    BBC Play of the Month

    1965 · 8 votes

  • TV7.1

    Minder

    1979 · 30 votes

  • TV6.5

    Peak Practice

    1993 · 10 votes

  • TV5.2

    The Wednesday Play

    1964 · 5 votes

  • TV6.4
  • TV7.4

    Lovejoy

    1986 · 56 votes

  • TV9.0

    The Expert

    1968 · 2 votes

  • TV5.0

    Churchill's People

    1974 · 2 votes

  • TV7.0

    Return of the Saint

    1978 · 10 votes

  • TV6.5

    Terry and June

    1979 · 13 votes

  • TV8.2

    Father Ted

    1995 · 360 votes

  • TV6.5

    Campion

    1989 · 11 votes

  • TV7.0

    Please Sir!

    1968 · 12 votes

  • TV8.0

    Festival

    1963 · 1 votes

  • TV7.5

    You Rang, M'Lord?

    1990 · 25 votes

  • TV
  • TV
  • TV7.6

    Pennies from Heaven

    1978 · 17 votes

  • TV6.3

    Gone to the Dogs

    1991 · 3 votes

  • TV6.0

    Armchair Theatre

    1956 · 6 votes

  • TV7.3

    Two's Company

    1975 · 6 votes

  • TV7.1

    Into the Labyrinth

    1981 · 7 votes