Paudge Rodger Behan is an Irish actor and writer. The son of IRA Chief of Staff Cathal Goulding and Beatrice ffrench-Salkeld, the widow of playwright Brendan Behan, Paudge Behan worked briefly as a journalist for a Dublin newspaper before turning to acting. After a series of minor film and television roles in the 1990s, he was handpicked by English novelist Barbara Taylor Bradford to appear as the male lead in a 1999 dramatisation of her book A Secret Affair (1996).
Paudge Behan received his family name from his mother Beatrice's husband Brendan Behan, pictured here at the Jager House Ballroom in New York City in 1960.
The Abbey Theatre in Dublin, Ireland, as it appeared on 20 November 2006.
Cathal Goulding was Chief of Staff of the Irish Republican Army and the Official IRA.
Goulding in 1994