Patrick Francis Joyce (31 May 1923
[ — 27 July 2000) was an actor in film and television.
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Biography
Joyce was born in Trieste
Trieste ( , ; sl, Trst ; german: Triest ) is a city and seaport in northeastern Italy. It is the capital city, and largest city, of the autonomous region of Friuli Venezia Giulia, one of two autonomous regions which are not subdivided into provi ...
, Italy. His father was Frantisek Schaurek, a Czech banker who had stolen money from the Živnostenská Bank in Trieste where he worked and committed suicide in 1926.[ His mother was Eileen Schaurek (nee Joyce), the sister of the author ]James Joyce
James Augustine Aloysius Joyce (2 February 1882 – 13 January 1941) was an Irish novelist, poet, and literary critic. He contributed to the modernist avant-garde movement and is regarded as one of the most influential and important writers of ...
. After his father's death, his mother returned to Ireland with Joyce and his two elder sisters, Nora and Bozena.[Delimata, Bozena Berta, and Virginia Moseley. ''Reminiscences of a Joyce Niece.'' James Joyce Quarterly 19, no. 1 (1981): 45-62. http://www.jstor.org/stable/25476405.]
Joyce appeared in nearly 90 film and television productions, and played Tommy Deakin on the British soap opera
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''Coronation Street
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Origi ...
'' (1968–74). In his later years he also played John Royle in another long-running British soap opera, ''EastEnders
''EastEnders'' is a Television in the United Kingdom, British soap opera created by Julia Smith (producer), Julia Smith and Tony Holland which has been broadcast on BBC One since February 1985. Set in the fictional borough of Walford in the Ea ...
'' (1990–91, 1993).
His other credits date back to the 1950s, his screen debut being in the 1953 film '' The Cruel Sea'', although his role in the film was unaccredited. Throughout the 1950s he appeared in films including '' The Girl in the Picture'', ''The Steel Bayonet
''The Steel Bayonet'' is a 1957 British war film directed by Michael Carreras and starring Leo Genn, Kieron Moore and Michael Medwin. Michael Caine also had a small role in the film, early in his career. It is set during the Second World War, in ...
'', ''Dublin Nightmare
''Dublin Nightmare'' is a 1958 British thriller film directed by John Pomeroy and starring William Sylvester, Marla Landi and Richard Leech. The film is a low budget quota quickie shot at Twickenham Studios.
Plot
Irish nationalists plan to seize ...
'' and '' Cover Girl Killer''. In the 1960s his television roles began to become more and more frequent with appearances in shows including ''The Adventures of Robin Hood
''The Adventures of Robin Hood'' is a 1938 American Technicolor swashbuckler film from Warner Bros. Pictures. It was produced by Hal B. Wallis and Henry Blanke, directed by Michael Curtiz and William Keighley, and stars Errol Flynn, Olivia de H ...
'', ''No Hiding Place
''No Hiding Place'' is a British television series that was produced at Wembley Studios by Associated-Rediffusion for the ITV network between 16 September 1959 and 22 June 1967.
It was the sequel to the series ''Murder Bag'' (1957–1958) an ...
'' and ''The Revenue Men
''The Revenue Men'' is a British television series, produced and transmitted by the BBC between 1967 and 1968.
The series dealt with cases handled by the Investigation Branch of Customs and Excise such as the illegal import of goods, illegal imm ...
''.
After he had completed his role in ''Coronation Street'', Joyce had become widely recognised within the United Kingdom
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. In 1973, he appeared in two episodes of ''Crown Court
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'' and the film version of '' Never Mind the Quality Feel the Width''; and between 1964 and 1976 he appeared in many different roles in the police procedural
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drama ''Z-Cars
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''. In 1980 he appeared in an episode of ''The Enigma Files
''The Enigma Files'' is a British television police procedural that ran for one series of fifteen episodes in 1980.
Plot summary
The series was a police procedural, written by Derek Ingrey, about a police officer who has been sidelined from ...
'' ''(The Fit Up).''
In the 1980s he appeared in television shows including ''Minder
A minder is the person assigned to guide or escort a visitor, or to provide protection to somebody, or to otherwise assist or take care of something, i.e. a person who " minds".
Government-appointed persons to accompany foreign visitors are of ...
'', ''Auf Wiedersehen, Pet
''Auf Wiedersehen, Pet'' () is a British comedy-drama television programme about seven British construction workers who leave the United Kingdom to search for employment overseas. In the first series, the men live and work on a building site in ...
'' and ''The Bill
''The Bill'' is a British police procedural television series, first broadcast on ITV from 16 August 1983 until 31 August 2010. The programme originated from a one-off drama, '' Woodentop'', broadcast in August 1983.
The programme focused on ...
'', before being landed in the role of John Royle on ''EastEnders''. His final credited performance was in the 1999 film ''Alice in Wonderland
''Alice's Adventures in Wonderland'' (commonly ''Alice in Wonderland'') is an 1865 English novel by Lewis Carroll. It details the story of a young girl named Alice who falls through a rabbit hole into a fantasy world of anthropomorphic creatur ...
''.[
Joyce died of a stroke in ]London
London is the capital and largest city of England and the United Kingdom, with a population of just under 9 million. It stands on the River Thames in south-east England at the head of a estuary down to the North Sea, and has been a majo ...
on 27 July 2000, aged 77 years.
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1923 births
2000 deaths
20th-century Irish male actors
Irish expatriates in England
Irish male film actors
Irish male television actors
Irish male soap opera actors
Irish people of Czech descent
Italian emigrants to Ireland