Age: 79
Birthplace: Reading, Berkshire, England
Patrick Gerald Duggan (born 24 March 1945), known as Patrick Malahide, is a British actor who has played a large number of film and television roles. He is best known for his role as Balon Greyjoy in HBO series Game of Thrones.
Malahide was born in Reading, Berkshire, the son of Irish immigrants, his mother, a cook and father, a school secretary. He was educated at Douai School, Woolhampton, Berkshire.
He made his television debut in 1976, in an episode of The Flight of the Heron, then in single episodes of Sutherland's Law and The New Avengers (1976) and ITV Playhouse (1977). He was then in an adaptation of The Eagle of the Ninth, and his first film was Sweeney 2 in the following year. In 1979 he began a nine-year stint as Detective Sergeant Albert "Cheerful Charlie" Chisholm in the popular TV series Minder.
Since then, he has become a familiar face to screen audiences, often playing villains. His television appearances have included dramas such as The Singing Detective (1986) and Middlemarch (1994), and he played Ngaio Marsh's Inspector Roderick Alleyn in a 1993-94 series. His films include Comfort and Joy (1984), A Month in the Country (1987), and Captain Corelli's Mandolin (2001). In 1999, he made a small appearance in the introduction to the James Bond film The World Is Not Enough as a Swiss banker named Lachaise working in Bilbao. He played Mr. Ryder in the 2008 film adaptation of Brideshead Revisited, and from 2012 to 2016 portrayed Balon Greyjoy, the father of Theon Greyjoy, in the TV series Game of Thrones.
Year | Title | Role | Other notes |
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2015-2016 | Indian Summers | Lord Willingdon | TV series |
2012 | Hunted | Jack Turner | TV series |
2012 | Endeavour | Richard Lovell | TV movie |
2012 | The Paradise | Lord Glendenning | TV series |
2012-2016 | Game of Thrones | Lord Balon Greyjoy | 4 episodes TV series |
2009 | Survivors | Mr Landry | TV series |
2009 | Into the Storm | Major-General Bernard Montgomery | |
2008 | Brideshead Revisited | Mr Ryder | |
2008 | The 39 Steps | Professor Fisher | TV |
2007 | Five Days | John Poole | TV series |
2006 | New Tricks | Chopper Hadley | TV series |
2006 | The Rocket Post | Charles Ilford | |
2006 | Like Minds | Headmaster | |
2005 | Elizabeth I | Sir Francis Walsingham | TV series |
2005 | Friends and Crocodiles | Anders | TV series |
2005 | Extras | Minister | TV series |
2005 | Sahara | Ambassador Polidori | |
2004 | Amnesia | D.I. Brennan | TV series |
2004 | EuroTrip | Arthur Frommer | |
2003 | Agatha Christie's Poirot | Sir Montague | TV series |
2003 | In Search of the Brontes | Patrick Brontë | TV series |
2002 | Goodbye, Mr. Chips | Ralston | TV series |
2002 | The Final Curtain | Dr. Colworth | |
2002 | The Abduction Club | Sir Myles | |
2001 | Victoria & Albert | Sir John Conroy | TV series |
2001 | Captain Corelli's Mandolin | Colonel Barge | |
2000 | Quills | Delbené | |
2000 | Billy Elliot | Principal | |
2000 | Ordinary Decent Criminal | Commissioner Daly | |
1999 | All the King's Men | Capt. Claude Howlett | TV series |
1999 | The World Is Not Enough | Lachaise | |
1999 | Captain Jack | Mr. Lancing | |
1999 | Fortress 2: Re-Entry | Peter Teller | |
1998 | Lost at Sea: The Search for Longitude | John Harrison | |
1998 | Heaven | Dr. Melrose | |
1998 | Miracle at Midnight | Georg Duckwitz | |
1998 | US Marshals | DSS Director Bertrum Lamb | |
1997 | 'Til There Was You | Timo | |
1997 | The Beautician and the Beast | Leonid Kleist | |
1997 | Deacon Brodie | Bailie Creech | |
1996 | The Long Kiss Goodnight | Leland Perkins | |
1995 | Cutthroat Island | Governor Ainslee | |
1995 | Kidnapped | Ebenezer | |
1995 | Two Deaths | George Bucsan | |
1994 | A Man of No Importance | Inspector Carson | |
1994 | Middlemarch | Rev. Edward Casaubon | TV |
1993-94 | The Inspector Alleyn Mysteries | Roderick Alleyn | TV series |
1992 | The Blackheath Poisonings | Robert Dangerfield | TV series |
1991 | Children of the North | Colonel Mailer | TV series |
1992 | A Doll's House | Dr. Rank | TV series |
1990 | Inspector Morse | Jeremy Boynton | TV series |
1988 | The One Game | Magnus | TV serial |
1988 | News at Twelve | Arthur Starkey | TV series |
1987 | A Month in the Country | Reverend Keach | Film |
1986 | The Singing Detective | Mark Binney/Finney/Raymond | |
1986 | The Russian Soldier | John Carter | TV drama |
1985 | The Pickwick Papers | Alfred Jingle | TV drama |
1984 | Comfort and Joy | Colin | |
1984 | The Killing Fields | Morgan | |
1983 | The Black Adder | Guy of Glastonbury | TV series |
1981 | Dear Enemy | Dr. Robin "Sandy" MacRae | TV series |
1979-1988 | Minder | Detective Sergeant Albert 'Charlie' Chisholm | TV series |
1978 | The Sweeney | Mason | TV series |
1978 | The Professionals | 1st Security Man | |
1978 | The Standard | Colin Anderson | TV series |
1978 | Sweeney 2 | Major Conway | |
1977 | The Eagle of the Ninth | Cradoc | TV |