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He was brought up in a middle-class Dublin household. He claims he desire to become an actor began when he saw a cartoon in which a clown on a stage looked sadly at things being thrown at him. "It seemed to me like a kind of Calvary, kind of triumph over adversity by perseverance and smiling on."
Frank starred in popular RTÉ children's programme Wanderly Wagon alongside Eugene Lambert and Nora O'Mahoney from 1968- 1982, playing a number of different characters and wrting many of the scripts.
His work on Hall's Pictorial Weekly established Kelly as one of Ireland's most recognisable faces, and led to him getting the role of Father Jack.
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