J. Pat O'Malley
J. Pat O'Malley (
March 15,
1904 â€"
February 27,
1985) was an English singer and actor of Irish extraction. He was born
James Patrick O'Malley in
Burnley,
England.
O'Malley began his recording career in
1929 and was principal singer with
Jack Hylton and his Orchestra from
1930 to
1933. Known at that time as
Pat O'Malley, he recorded over 400 popular songs of the day.
O'Malley began a solo recording career in 1935 in parallel with his work with Hylton. At the end of 1935 Hylton and O'Malley went to the US to record with a band composed of American musicians, thus emulating
Ray Noble and
Al Bowlly. The venture was short-lived but O'Malley remained in the United States.
Now known as
J. Pat O'Malley he had a long and varied acting career including the film
Lassie Come Home in 1943, the Disney television serial
Spin and Marty and a role in the television series
Maude, as
Hermione Baddeley's beau, from 1973 to 1975.
Walt Disney also engaged O'Malley to provide voices for animated films such as the
Cockney coster in the "
Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious" sequence in
Mary Poppins 1964 and the role of Colonel Hathi in
The Jungle Book in
1967. His voice can also be heard in
Alice in Wonderland (
1951), in which he performs all character voices in the "Walrus and Carpenter" segment, and
101 Dalmatians (
1961) and in the
Pirates of the Caribbean attraction in several roles including the original voice of the Pirate Captain dunking the magistrate into the well.
J.Pat O'Malley died from
cardiovascular disease in
San Juan Capistrano, California at the age of 80.
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