Veteran stage and screen actor best known for playing the ranting, drunken Father Jack in the Channel 4 television comedy Father TedThe actor Frank Kelly was best known as Father Jack Hackett, the demented, drunken old cleric bellowing "Drink! Girls! Arse! Feck!" from his armchair in the priests' house on Craggy Island. But there was far more to Kelly, who has died aged 77. He had been a versatile television and radi…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:22AM on February 28, 2016