Frank Deasy won an Emmy Award for the television series Prime Suspect and was nominated for his works, Looking After Jo Jo and The Grass Arena.
18 Facts About Frank Deasy
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Frank Deasy initially worked as a child carer with Ireland's Eastern Health Board.
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Frank Deasy relocated to Glasgow, Scotland, where he died in 2009, having "liked it so much he never came home".
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In spite of this success, John Spain in the Irish Independent commented that Frank Deasy was still not very well known in Ireland at this time.
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Frank Deasy wrote films and had a co-credit on Miramax's Prozac Nation, featuring Christina Ricci, Jessica Lange and Lou Reed.
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Frank Deasy was working on Gaza, a BBC Films drama due to begin filming in October 2009, at the time of his death.
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Frank Deasy was supposed to be writing an eight-part BBC drama series about the House of Medici.
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Frank Deasy was due to follow a family over a century for RTE.
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Frank Deasy was first diagnosed with liver cancer four years before his death.
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Frank Deasy underwent surgery to remove the tumour but it was found to have returned in January 2009.
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Days before his death from the disease, Frank Deasy began discussing his condition in public forums.
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Frank Deasy said: "I am only one of thousands of patients on organ transplant lists in Britain, living on our own, invisible, death row".
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Frank Deasy's words were echoed in The Observers editorial which called for an enforcement of presumed consent.
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Frank Deasy resided in Scotland at the time of his death in hospital.
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Frank Deasy was survived by his wife, Marie and their three children.
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Anthony Jones, Frank Deasy's literary agent, said he was a "wonderful, funny, tough and clever man".
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RTE Television's commissioning editor for Drama, Jane Gogan, said Frank Deasy "brought a tremendous honesty and passionate intensity to his work" who "will be a big loss as a friend and inspiration to those he worked with but, more importantly, as a husband and father his loss will be incalculable".
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Frank Deasy had everything I admire in a human being.