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Darby O'Gill and the Little People is a 1959 American fantasy adventure film produced by Walt Disney Productions, adapted from the Darby O'Gill stories of Herminie Templeton Kavanagh. Directed by Robert Stevenson and written by Lawrence Edward Watkin , the film stars Albert Sharpe as O'Gill alongside Janet Munro , Sean Connery , and Jimmy O'Dea .
In the film, O'Gill is an aging groundskeeper who engages in a friendly battle of wits with a leprechaun king, and is played by the actor Albert Sharpe. [1] One of the VeggieTales videos, The Wonderful Wizard Of Ha's, has a protagonist whose name is Darby O'Gill (played by Junior Asparagus), but the story itself is mainly a retelling of The ...
Her best known work, Darby O'Gill and the Good People (ISBN 0-9666701-0-8), was first published as a series of stories under the name Herminie Templeton in McClure's magazine in 1901–1902, before being published as a book in the United States in 1903. A second edition, published a year before her death, was under the name Herminie T. Kavanagh.
The Disney film Darby O'Gill and the Little People (1959)—based on Herminie Templeton Kavanagh's Darby O'Gill books—which features a leprechaun king, is a work in which Fergus mac Léti was "featured parenthetically". [46] In the film, the captured leprechaun king grants three wishes, like Fergus in the saga.
Albert Edward Sharpe was born at 8 Goudy's Court in Belfast on 15 April 1885, one of six children born to fishmonger John Sharpe, a Presbyterian, and Mary Collins, a Roman Catholic.
Several of the original Irish actors' accents (notably Darby, Widow Sheelah Sugrue, King Brian, and the Leprechauns) were deemed too difficult for American audiences to understand and were consequently overdubbed with easier-to-understand voices, possibly from different voice actors. The original soundtrack also contains some dialogue in Irish ...
In the 1945 report recommending the formation of the Metro Park system, the Big Darby and Little Darby creeks were identified as a site of a future park. In 1950, the organization began acquiring land that would become the Darby Creek Metro Park. The park opened to the public in 1959 with 119 acres. [6]
Big Darby Creek is a scenic river located in northwestern central Ohio, and an important tributary to the Lower Scioto River. The river's major tributary is the Little Darby Creek . The river runs 84 miles (135 km) from its source near the Champaign - Union county line, south-east through Union and Madison Counties.