Emerging from Dublin and educated at Cardinal Vaughan Memorial School, the University of London and RADA, O'Conor built a career that spanned stage, television and film. After a 1939 debut in a modern-dress Julius Caesar, he became known for Shakespearean roles, sharing the stage with Donald Wolfit in Othello and Hamlet, and later appearing at the Citizens Theatre, Bristol Old Vic and the Old Vic…
