Edward J. "Bingo" O'Malley[1][2] (May 10, 1933[3] – June 2, 2019[4]) was an American actor. He has been called "Pittsburgh’s finest actor."[4]
Biography
A native of South Oakland, Pennsylvania,[4] O'Malley was the youngest of four children born to Catheryn Holleran and veteran firefighter Bartley J. O'Malley.[5][2][1][6][7] The second youngest, brother Bart Jr., would meet his untimely end in 1959 at age 35, while following in the career footsteps of their father.[8][1]
It was while working as a Navy radarman in Key West that O'Malley got his first role in a community theater production of The Rainmaker in the late 1950s.[4][9]
He briefly aspired to the priesthood but found that "I am not religious."[4] He then spent years as a juvenile-probation officer as well as a school social worker.[9]
By the 1970s, O'Malley was working with a community theater in Churchill, Pennsylvania as well as the Pittsburgh Lab Theatre.[4] For the next two decades O'Malley was one of the city's busiest actors.[9]
