Biography
Declan Mulholland was a Northern Irish character actor of film and television. Born Thomas Declan Mulholland in Belfast on 6 December 1932, he began acting in London theatre in the late 1950s, appearing with the Royal Shakespeare Company and at the Royal Court.
His screen career began with a role in H.M.S. Defiant (1962). He appeared in Doctor Who stories including The Sea Devils (1972) and The Androids of Tara (1978), played Olson in The Land That Time Forgot (1974), and featured in Time Bandits (1981) and The Tall Guy (1989). He portrayed the Shouting Priest in the Father Ted episode "New Jack City" (1996). Mulholland played Jabba the Hutt in a deleted scene from Star Wars (1977) that was restored with CGI in the 1997 Special Edition. He died in London on 29 June 1999.
