| Bosco Hogan | |
| Birth Place: | Ireland |
John Bosco Hogan (born March 1949) is an Irish stage, film, and television actor.
He is well known as the character Dr. Michael Ryan on the television programme Ballykissangel.[1] He appeared in a minor role as convicted felon George Saden in John Boorman's film Zardoz (1974), but his first major film role was as Stephen Dedalus in Joseph Strick's A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (1977), a film adaptation of James Joyce's novel of the same name.[2] His later film credits include roles in The Outsider (1979), Screamtime (1983), In the Name of the Father (1993), Evelyn (2002) and King Arthur (2004).[3] On television he played Jonathan Harker in the 1977 TV version of Count Dracula with Louis Jourdan; Frederick, Duke of York in Prince Regent in 1979; and Edward Ferrars in the 1981 adaptation of Sense and Sensibility.[4] He was a senior policeman for several episodes of the television programme, The Chief (1995).[2]
Hogan appeared in the play A Cry from Heaven by Vincent Woods at the Abbey Theatre in the summer of 2005.[5] He portrayed St. John Fisher in the 2007 season of The Tudors television programme on the Showtime channel.[6] He played a cardinal once again in The Borgias (2011), as Cardinal Piccolomini.[1] Hogan also appears in Season 5 of the television series Vikings (History Channel, 2017) as Lord Abbot at Lindisfarne monastery and in its sequel series as Aethelred the Unready.[7] Hogan also appears in an episode of Tales of the Unexpected.
His distinctive voice has him regularly working on voiceovers for both advertising and corporate clients in Ireland.[8]
Hogan attended secondary school at Terenure College, Dublin.[9]
| Year | Title | Role | Notes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1974 | Zardoz | George Saden | ||
| 1977 | A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man | Stephen Dedalus | ||
| 1978 | Exposure | Eugene | ||
| 1979 | The Outsider | Finbar Donovan | ||
| 1983 | Screamtime | Doctor | ||
| 1984 | Anne Devlin | Robert Emmett | ||
| 1988 | Taffin | The Builder | ||
| 1993 | In the Name of the Father | Defense Counsel | ||
| 1996 | Some Mother's Son | British Captain | ||
| 1997 | How to Cheat in the Leaving Certificate | News Reader | ||
| 2002 | Evelyn | Father O'Malley | ||
| 2004 | King Arthur | Bishop Decoy | ||
| 2005 | Tara Road | Accountant | ||
| 2014 | The Inquiry | William Martin Murphy | ||
| 2016 | The Flag | Flint | ||
| 2018 | Citizen Lane | Reverend James Lane | ||
| 2018 | We Have Always Lived in the Castle | Old Ned | ||
| 2019 | The Professor and the Madman | Lord Chief Justice | ||
| 2020 | The Legion | Saul | ||
| 2021 | The Last Duel | Priest at Duel |