DUBLIN - Irish character actor David Kelly, who played Grandpa Joe in “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory’’ and motorcycled naked in “Waking Ned Devine,’’ has died. He was 82.

Once Boston Legal ends its run with a Dec. 8 series finale, Emmy-winning writer-producer David E. Kelley won’t have a series on TV for the first time in at least two decades. But fortunately ...

With its two-hour bow, Legal's goodbye means it'll be the first time in 22 years that television is without a topical David E. Kelley program on air.But it didn't have to end this way.

Denis Arndt, the familiar character actor who appeared on L.A. Law, Picket Fences and other shows for David E. Kelley and earned a Tony nomination for his turn opposite Mary-Louise Parker in the ...

David Kelly poses at the Fifth Annual Screen Actors Guild Award show, March 7, 1999, in Los Angeles. AP file photo (CBS/AP) DUBLIN - Irish character actor David Kelly, whose 70-year career in ...