The Strand’s other main claim to fame is its distinction as the setting of the sports in J.M. Synge’s well known play ‘The Playboy of the Western World’.
There he became a stalwart, appearing in plays by Lady Gregory, William Butler Yeats and John Millington Synge (for whom he played the role of Shawn Keogh in The Playboy of the Western World.
The title and lyrics of "The Last of the Famous International Playboys" could also allude to John Millington Synge's 1907 play The Playboy of the Western World—a work which similarly deals with the popular glorification of violence and crime.
Liam O Mallie, inspiration for the character of Christy Mahon in The Playboy of the Western World, fl.
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Subsequent films included: The Moonraker (1958), Suddenly, Last Summer (1959), El Cid (1961), The Playboy of the Western World (1962), Jason and the Argonauts (1963), and The Greatest Story Ever Told (1965), as the apostle Simon bar Jonah who becomes Peter the Rock.