Film Actor Derrick O’ Connor Dead at 77

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By Brad Berkwitt

Popular character actor Derrick O’ Connor who portrayed brilliantly a vicious South African bad guy in Lethal Weapon 2 and appeared in three films for Terry Gilliam, died June 29th at the age of 77.

O’Connor died from pneumonia in Santa Barbara, publicist Jane Ayer announced.

Some of his various roles were Sarah Miles’ neighbor Mac in John Boorman’s autobiographical World War II period piece Hope and Glory in 1987.

He also played the theologian Thomas Aquinas opposite Arnold Schwarzenegger in End of Days in 1999; Father Everett, a blind superhero’s confidante, in Daredevil in 2003; and an aspiring buccaneer in Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest in 2006.

Ringside Report extends our condolences to the O’Connor family in their time of grief.

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