As an actor, Fitzmaurice has appeared in Going off Big Time ( which he also wrote ), played Jeff in the Channel 4 comedy series Peep Show, and starred in the prison drama series Buried.

He is played by comedian and actor Neil Fitzmaurice who also co-wrote the series.

Following the series ' success, Kay and his co-writers, Neil Fitzmaurice and Dave Spikey, used the episode " In The Club " as the basis for Phoenix Nights.

Fitzmaurice has also performed alongside Paul O ' Grady in the BBC comedy Eyes Down, had guest roles in the long-running police drama The Bill and on the Casualty spin-off Holby City.

On 23 May 1902, at the age of four, Fitzmaurice moved with his parents to a house on Dublin Road, Portlaoise, Ireland.

On his 19th birthday in January 1917, Fitzmaurice held the rank of Corporal, was an acting Sergeant, and commanded Platoon No. 13 of D Company, 7th Queen's.

On 8 June, Fitzmaurice left for England " to take up commission ".

On 28 October 1918, having completed his elementary training at Eastbourne, Fitzmaurice was posted to the No. 1 School of Fighting and Aerial Gunnery at Marske-by-the-Sea, near Middlesbrough.

On 12 – 13 April 1928, Fitzmaurice flew in the crew of the Bremen on the first transatlantic aircraft flight from East to West.

On 3 July 1879 at Ulundi, Zululand, South Africa, during the retirement of a reconnoitring party, Captain Lord William Beresford went to the assistance of Sergeant Fitzmaurice of the 24th Regiment, whose horse had fallen and rolled on him.

On 3 July 1879 at Ulundi, Zululand, South Africa, during the retirement of a reconnoitering party, a captain ( Lord William Leslie de la Poer Beresford ) of the 9th Lancers went to the assistance of Sergeant Fitzmaurice of the 24th Regiment whose horse had fallen and rolled on him.

Around the time of the premiere, Fitzmaurice returned to the stage for the first time in ten years, playing Shaun in On the Ledge at the Royal Court Theatre.

On 16 February 2009, Fitzmaurice started presenting the Drivetime show on Liverpool's Radio City 96. 7 ,.

* Edgington v Fitzmaurice ( 1885 ) 29 Ch D 459, " the state of a man's mind is as much a fact as the state of his digestion ", securities-fraud case dealing with false statements of intention

The town has a range of museums including the heritage listed former Corfield and Fitzmaurice emporium as well as the heritage truck and machinery museum.

The airfield was the one from which the first successful east-west Atlantic crossing by a Junkers W33 aeroplane, the Bremen, took off on 12 April 1928 with Baron Hünefeld, Hermann Köhl and Captain James Fitzmaurice as co-pilot, as well as the first Aer Lingus flight took place on May 27, 1936.

Limerick city offered strategic possibilities as a wealthy and fortified trading port, where the Protestant Reformation had not yet taken hold, and was geographically proximite to the turbulant Geraldine Palatinate of Desmond, where it was well known that the Jesuit Order were corresponding with the 14th Earl's cousin, Lord James Fitzmaurice Fitzgerald, instigator of the first Desmond Rebellion.

The film was remade in 1923 with George Fitzmaurice as director and Pola Negri and Jack Holt starring.

Kay's film appearances have included minor roles in, Going Off Big Time ( 1999 ) with Neil Fitzmaurice, 24 Hour Party People ( 2002 ), Roddy Smythe Investigates ( 2003 ) and The League of Gentlemen's Apocalypse ( 2005 ).

In 1998, for the 70th anniversary of the famous flight, a short film was made profiling the life of Fitzmaurice with dramatic reconstruction of the flight.

His last appearance acting was in the 2009 film Charlie Noades RIP written by his Phoenix Nights Co-Writer Neil Fitzmaurice.

* The Eternal City ( 1923 film ), 1923 lost film directed by George Fitzmaurice based on the novel

The Son of the Sheik is a 1926 silent film produced by United Artists, directed by George Fitzmaurice and starring Rudolph Valentino and Vilma Bánky.

* Forever ( 1921 film ) or Peter Ibbetson, a silent film by George Fitzmaurice

In 1576, Fitzmaurice had been warmly received at Rome, where Father William Allen was also present, having presented to the pope a plot for the invasion of England through Liverpool, with 5, 000 musketeers under Stukley's command.

In 1920, Basil Mott joined forces with Sir Maurice Fitzmaurice and John Brodie to advise on the best way to build a new crossing of the river Mersey in Liverpool.

Clayton " Bud " Collyer voiced both Clark Kent and Superman, until Michael Fitzmaurice replaced him in the final episodes.

Amongst Essendon ’ s best players were half forward flanker George " Tich " Shorten, center half forward Justin McCarthy, centre half back Tom Fitzmaurice, rover Frank Maher and wingman Jack Garden.

* 1898 – James Fitzmaurice, Irish aviation pioneer ( d. 1965 )

In 1578, to further the plans of exiled English and Irish Catholics such as Nicholas Sanders, William Allen, and James Fitzmaurice FitzGerald, Gregory outfitted adventurer Thomas Stukeley with a ship and an army of 800 men to land in Ireland to aid in the hope for overthrow of Elizabeth's rule through the Catholic leader and former leader of the first Desmond rebellion, Fitzmaurice.

Another papal expedition sailed to Ireland in 1579 with a mere 50 soldiers under the command of Fitzmaurice, accompanied by Sanders as papal legate.

* June 13 – George Fitzmaurice, American director ( b. 1885 )

** George Fitzmaurice, French-American Motion Picture director ( d. 1940 )

The 600-strong Italian, Spanish and Irish papal invasion force of James Fitzmaurice Fitzgerald was besieged by the English forces and massacred.

Prescott Valley ’ s Fitzmaurice Ruins contain artifacts from the early Mountain Patayan people who inhabited the area some 14, 000 years ago.

First granted in 1769 by Governor John Wentworth, the town was named for William Petty Fitzmaurice, Earl of Shelburne.

The village once had its own airport, the Fitzmaurice Flying Field, named in 1929 for James Fitzmaurice, the first man to fly a plane from Canada to the United States.

After The Stolen Brides moderate success, Korda was brought in to work on the comedy The Private Life of Helen of Troy ( 1927 ), replacing the previous director, George Fitzmaurice.

It was directed by George Fitzmaurice.

Seventeen years later, his second son, Henry Fitzmaurice Hallam, was cut off like his brother at the start of a career.

Gilbert was then created colonel by Lord Deputy Sidney and charged with the pursuit of the rebel James Fitzmaurice Fitzgerald.

In December 1569, after one of the chief rebels had come in to the government and confessed his treason, Gilbert received his knighthood at the hands of Sidney in the ruined Fitzmaurice camp, reputedly amid heaps of slain gallowglass warriors.

In the summer of 1579, Gilbert and Raleigh were commissioned by the lord deputy of Ireland, William Drury, to attack his old foe, the rebel James Fitzmaurice Fitzgerald, by sea and land and to intercept a fleet expected to arrive from Spain with aid for the Munster rebels.

Michael Fitzmaurice was the program's announcer.

They escalated into the first of the Desmond rebellions, led by James Fitzmaurice Fitzgerald.

As sheriff of Cork, Grenville witnessed the rebellion in which Fitzmaurice, along with the Earl of Clancar, James Fitzedmund Fitzgerald ( the Seneschal of Imokilly ); Edmund Fitzgibbon ( the White Knight ); and others, attacked Tracton.

Fitzmaurice threatened the imminent arrival of Spanish forces.

In June 1569, soon after Grenville's sailing for England, Fitzmaurice camped outside the walls of Waterford and demanded that Grenville's wife and Lady St Leger be given over to him, along with all the English and all prisoners ; the citizens refused.