The father of actor Jamie Dornan, Professor Jim Dornan, has died in Northern Ireland at the age of 73.
During his successful career Dornan, a retired obstetrician and gynaecologist, became a professor of Foetal Medicine at Queen's University Belfast from 1995 to 2012. He was also the senior vice-president of the Royal College of Gynaecologists from 2004 to 2006.
In a Twitter message on Monday morning, the BBC NI Health Correspondent, Marie-Louise Connolly, said: "It is with much sadness that I am writing that Professor Jim Dornan has died.
"Hard to accept that someone with so much life, wit, and full of advice and laughter has left this world. A true friend. Thoughts are with his family and medical friends around the world. RIP Jim."
It is with much sadness that I am writing that Professor Jim Dornan has died. Hard to accept that someone with so much life, wit, and full of advice and laughter has left this world. A true friend. Thoughts are with his family and medical friends around the world. RIP Jim.
— Marie-Louise Connolly - Look Forward. #FightBack (@mlchealth) March 15, 2021
Jim was also known for making regular cameo appearances in popular TV shows. He featured in the third series of ITV drama Marcella as a deputy chief constable.
At the time, he told Sunday Life: "It (the role) was pure chance. I was dining with my cousin at General Merchants on the Newtownards Road about two years ago when the director asked his companion who I was because I was familiar-looking.
"He told her he'd like me for a wee cameo, so that was that. I did have about two lines as well, but they seem to have ended up on the cutting room floor."
He also had a cameo in The Fall as a policeman, in which son Jamie played a serial killer.
Jim Dornan's first wife, Lorna, died from pancreatic cancer in 1998. They had three children. He later remarried leading gynaecologist Samina Dornan.
