---
name: "Jarlath Conroy"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/jarlath-conroy"
fi1m_id: "jarlath-conroy"
imdb_id: "nm0175826"
tmdb_id: 54856
wikidata_id: "Q6160311"
roles: ["Actor"]
born: "30 September 1944"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 2
average_fi1m_score: 82
average_as: "actor"
average_over: 2
updated: "2026-09-17T23:48:58.564350+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# Jarlath Conroy

## Identity

Jarlath Conroy

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/jarlath-conroy
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** jarlath-conroy
- **IMDb ID:** nm0175826
- **TMDB ID:** 54856
- **Wikidata ID:** Q6160311
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jarlath_Conroy, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6160311, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0175826/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/54856

Actor. Born 30 September 1944 in Galway, Ireland.

## Details

- **Work:** Actor
- **Born:** 30 September 1944, Galway, Ireland
- **Active:** 1980–2010
- **Average Fi1m score:** 82, as actor, over 2 titles
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 1980s 79 (1), 2010s 84 (1)
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jarlath_Conroy, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6160311, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0175826/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/54856

## Streaming the US now

- **Apple TV:** [*True Grit*](https://film.one/film/true-grit.md) (84)

For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country.

## Biography

Jarlath Conroy is an Irish theatre, film and television actor. Born on 30 September 1944 in Galway, he has worked in the United States since 1971.

His film credits include *Heaven's Gate* (1980), *Day of the Dead* (1985), *Stay* (2005), *Across the Universe* (2007) and *True Grit* (2010), in which he played the Undertaker. He has appeared in episodes of *NYPD Blue*, *Law & Order*, *Law & Order: Special Victims Unit* and *Law & Order: Criminal Intent*. Conroy provided the voice of Aiden O'Malley in the video game *Grand Theft Auto IV* (2008).

In 2016 he performed as Willie in a Yale Repertory Theatre production of Samuel Beckett's *Happy Days*, opposite Dianne Wiest.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com.*

## On Fi1m (2)

- *True Grit* (2010), Fi1m 84, as Undertaker — [page](https://film.one/film/true-grit.md)
- *Heaven's Gate* (1980), Fi1m 79, as Mercenary in new suit — [page](https://film.one/film/heavens-gate.md)

## Complete filmography (24)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Screamboat* (2025), as Barry
- *The Ulysses Project* (2022), as The Chemist/ Barrister JJ Molloy
- *To Keep the Light* (2016), as Inspector of the Light
- *Putzel* (2012), as McGinty
- *Roadie* (2012), as Wes
- *The Art of Getting By* (2011), as Harris McElroy
- *True Grit* (2010), as Undertaker — Fi1m 84, [page](https://film.one/film/true-grit.md)
- *The Marconi Bros* (2008), as Irish Priest
- *Across the Universe* (2007), as Bartender at Max's Bar
- *Stay* (2005), as English Man
- *Kinsey* (2004), as Grocer
- *Law & Order: Criminal Intent* (2001), series, as Caretaker, Shea
- *Behind the Scenes with Day of the Dead* (2001), Actor
- *Law & Order: Special Victims Unit* (1999), series, as Mr. Coogan
- *Kisses in the Dark* (1998), as Antacid Man (Joe)
- *Joe* (1997), as Antacid Man
- *Law & Order* (1990), series, as Father Royce, Frank Noonan — Fi1m 72, [page](https://film.one/tv/law-and-order.md)
- *Day of the Dead* (1985), as McDermott
- *The Man Who Married a French Wife and Other Stories* (1982), as 3rd Waiter
- *The Elephant Man* (1982), as Will
- *Heaven's Gate* (1980), as Mercenary in new suit — Fi1m 79, [page](https://film.one/film/heavens-gate.md)
- *Playhouse* (1974), series, as Waiter
- *Great Performances* (1971), series, as Gaunt Man
- *Night of the Living Dead II*, as Bill McDermott

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