Patrick Durkin Biography

Fast Facts

• A small-part character actor both on-screen and off, was a semi-regular playing various roles in the "Carry On" films
• Trained at the London Academy of Dramatic Art as in the same class with Peter O'Toole and Richard Harris
• Best known as the Australian climber in "Raiders of the Lost Ark․"
• Claimed to have brought Harrison Ford to tears on the set of "Raiders of the Lost Ark" and prevented him from filming for an hour after reciting the classic poem Horatius