John Bosco Hogan (born March 1949) is an

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stage, film, and television actor. He is well known as the character Dr. Michael Ryan on the television programme ''

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''. He appeared in a minor role as convicted felon George Saden in

John Boorman Sir John Boorman (; born 18 January 1933) is a British film director, best known for feature films such as ''Point Blank'' (1967), ''Hell in the Pacific'' (1968), ''Deliverance'' (1972), ''Zardoz'' (1974), '' Exorcist II: The Heretic'' (1977), ...

's film ''

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'' (1973), but his first major film role was as

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's ''A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man'' (1977), a

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's novel of the same name. His later film credits include roles in '' The Outsider'' (1980), ''Screamtime'' (1983), ''

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'' (1993), ''

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'' (2002) and ''

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'' (2004). On television he played

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in the 1977 TV version of ''

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'' with

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; Frederick, Duke of York in ''

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'' in 1979; and

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in the 1981 adaptation of ''

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''. He was a senior policeman for several episodes of the television programme, '' The Chief'' (1995). Hogan appeared in the play ''

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'' by

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at the

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in the summer of 2005. He portrayed St. John Fisher in the 2007 season of ''

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'' television programme on the

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channel. He played a cardinal once again in '' The Borgias'' (2011), as Cardinal Piccolomini. Hogan also appears in Season 5 of the television series ''

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'' (History Channel, 2017) as Lord Abbot at Lindisfarne monastery and in its sequel series '' Vikings: Valhalla'' as Aethelred the Unready. 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.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Hogan, Bosco 1949 births Irish male film actors Irish male stage actors Irish male television actors Living people Place of birth missing (living people)