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All All. Sign In. Jump to Overview 3 Biography 1 Family 1 Edit. Patrick John McNamara. Patrick' to avoid confusion with another Actor's Equity member of longer standing. McNamara initially started out performing in plays at the University of New Orleans in order to improve his public speaking, because in his own words "I knew that I was going to be a lawyer.

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I did a play, I was good at it, and that was that. Then I went to law school and hated it. Before long, he was 'on the boards' performing on stage, including at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival. He further honed his newly acquired skills at Wayne State University in Detroit and subsequently secured a job teaching voice at the National Academy of Drama, Carnegie Hall.

McNamara resumed his acting career at an avant-garde Off-Broadway club in Manhattan's East Village where he spent the next three years. After that, he taught drama classes at Antioch College in Ohio and then spent time in Europe before returning to New Orleans. He operated a theatrical company there from to , but the venture proved unprofitable, and, therefore, short-lived.

He was frequently cast as professors, doctors, psychologists or senior executives. McNamara retired from acting in and spent his remaining years in New Orleans, devoting time to his favorite hobby: playing poker.