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person_profile-J. M. Kerrigan

J. M. Kerrigan Died at age: 79

Actor | Producer

Date of Birth:

Dec 15, 1884

Country of birth:

Ireland

Died:

Apr 29, 1964

Biography of

J. M. Kerrigan

    Joseph Michael Kerrigan (16 December 1884 – 29 April 1964), better known as J. M. Kerrigan, was an Irish character actor. Kerrigan was born in Dublin, Ireland. He worked as a newspaper reporter until 1907 when he joined the famous Abbey Players. There he became a stalwart, appearing in plays by Lady Gregory, William Butler Yeats and John Millington Synge (for whom he played the role of Shawn Keogh in The Playboy of the Western World. His first screen appearance was in the silent film Food of Love in 1916. By the 1920s he was appearing on Broadway, often in plays by Shakespeare, Ibsen, and Sheridan. He settled permanently in Hollywood in 1935, having been recruited along with several other Abbey performers, to appear in John Ford's The Informer. In that film and in Ford's The Long Voyage Home, he plays similar roles, that of a leech who attaches himself to men until they run out of money. Perhaps his best known role was in The General Died at Dawn, where he plays a character actually named Leach, in which he steals scenes from Gary Cooper, Madeleine Carroll and William Frawley. In it he plays a sinister little petty thief who, holding a gun on Cooper, says, "I may be fat, but I'm agile." He had little screen time in films which he starred as minor roles, such as the "First Drayman" in Merely Mary Ann (1931) with Janet Gaynor. One of his most recognizable minor roles was in Gone with the Wind (1939), in which he played John Gallegher, the seemly jovial mill owner who whips his convict labour in to "co-operation". He appeared in Walt Disney's 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (1954), the famous film version of Jules Verne's Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea in a minor role at the beginning of the film. In 1946, he tried breaking into Broadway shows, playing the discombobulated leprechaun Jackeen J. O'Malley in the show "Barnaby and Mr. O'Malley", based on the Crockett Johnson comic strip. J. M. Kerrigan died in Hollywood on 29 April 1964, aged 79. Kerrigan has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6621 Hollywood Blvd.

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J. M. Kerrigan

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Filmography of

J. M. Kerrigan

Found 83 Movies in total

The Fastest Gun Alive

Kevin McGovern ( Actor )

... 1956

It's a Dog's Life

Paddy Corbin ( Actor )

... 1955

... 1954

The Silver Whip

Riley ( Actor )

... 1953

My Cousin Rachel

Reverend Pascoe ( Actor )

... 1952

Park Row

Dan O'Rourke ( Actor )

... 1952

The Wild North

Callahan ( Actor )

... 1952

... 1951

Sealed Cargo

Skipper Ben ( Actor )

... 1951

Mrs. Mike

Uncle John ( Actor )

... 1949

The Fighting O'Flynn

Timothy ( Actor )

... 1949

The Luck of the Irish

Tatie the Innkeeper ( Actor )

... 1948

Call Northside 777

Sullivan - Court Bailiff (uncredited) ( Actor )

... 1948

Abie's Irish Rose

Patrick Murphy ( Actor )

... 1946

Black Beauty

John ( Actor )

... 1946

She Went to the Races

Jeff Habbard ( Actor )

... 1945

The Spanish Main

Pillery Gow ( Actor )

... 1945

The Crime Doctor's Warning

Robert MacPherson (uncredited) ( Actor )

... 1945

The Great John L.

Father O'Malley ( Actor )

... 1945

Tarzan and the Amazons

Splivens ( Actor )

... 1945

The Big Bonanza

'Judge' Jasper Kincaid ( Actor )

... 1944

Wilson

Edward Sullivan ( Actor )

... 1944

The Fighting Seabees

Sawyer Collins ( Actor )

... 1944

Mr. Lucky

Mr. McDougal (uncredited) ( Actor )

... 1943

Action in the North Atlantic

Caviar Jinks (uncredited) ( Actor )

... 1943

Captains of the Clouds

Foster (storekeeper / Emily's father) ( Actor )

... 1942

The Vanishing Virginian

John Phelps ( Actor )

... 1942

The Wolf Man

Charles Conliffe ( Actor )

... 1941

Appointment for Love

Timothy ( Actor )

... 1941

The Long Voyage Home

Crimp ( Actor )

... 1940

No Time for Comedy

Jim ( Actor )

... 1940

The Sea Hawk

Eli Matson ( Actor )

... 1940

One Crowded Night

Brother 'Doc' Joseph ( Actor )

... 1940

Untamed

Angus McGavity ( Actor )

... 1940

Curtain Call

Mr. Middleton ( Actor )

... 1940

Young Tom Edison

Mr. McCarney ( Actor )

... 1940

Congo Maisie

Captain Finch ( Actor )

... 1940

Gone with the Wind

Johnny Gallagher ( Actor )

... 1939

Two Thoroughbreds

Jack Lenihan ( Actor )

... 1939

Sabotage

Mel ( Actor )

... 1939

6,000 Enemies

Dan Barrett ( Actor )

... 1939

The Zero Hour

Timothy ( Actor )

... 1939

Union Pacific

Monahan ( Actor )

... 1939

Sorority House

Lew Fisher ( Actor )

... 1939

Undercover Agent

Tom 'Pop' Madison ( Actor )

... 1939

The Kid From Texas

Farr ( Actor )

... 1939

The Flying Irishman

Mr. Clyde Corrigan Sr. ( Actor )

... 1939

The Great Man Votes

Hot Shot Gillings ( Actor )

... 1939

Ride a Crooked Mile

Sgt. Flynn ( Actor )

... 1938

Spring Madness

Mr. Maloney (uncredited) ( Actor )

... 1938

London by Night

Tims ( Actor )

... 1937

The Plough and the Stars

Uncle Peter ( Actor )

... 1936

Lloyd's of London

Brook Watson ( Actor )

... 1936

... 1936

Spendthrift

Pop O'Connell ( Actor )

... 1936

Special Investigator

Judge Plumgate ( Actor )

... 1936

Colleen

Pop Reilly ( Actor )

... 1936

Laughing Irish Eyes

Tim ( Actor )

... 1936

The Prisoner of Shark Island

Judge Maiben ( Actor )

... 1936

A Feather in Her Hat

Pobjoy ( Actor )

... 1935

Barbary Coast

Judge Harper ( Actor )

... 1935

Hot Tip

Matt ( Actor )

... 1935

Werewolf of London

Hawkins ( Actor )

... 1935

The Informer

Terry ( Actor )

... 1935

Vanessa: Her Love Story

Perkins (uncredited) ( Actor )

... 1935

The Fountain

Shordley ( Actor )

... 1934

The Key

O'Duffy ( Actor )

... 1934

A Modern Hero

Mr. Ryan ( Actor )

... 1934

The Lost Patrol

Quincannon ( Actor )

... 1934

Paddy the Next Best Thing

Collins ( Actor )

... 1933

A Study in Scarlet

Jabez Wilson ( Actor )

... 1933

Air Hostess

Pop Kearny ( Actor )

... 1933

Rockabye

Fagin ( Actor )

... 1932

Vanity Street

Dan - Irish Cop (uncredited) ( Actor )

... 1932

Careless Lady

Trowbridge ( Actor )

... 1932

The Black Camel

MacMaster ( Actor )

... 1931

Don't Bet on Women

Chipley Duff ( Actor )

... 1931

Under Suspicion

Doyle ( Actor )

... 1930

Lightnin'

Judge Lemuel Townsend ( Actor )

... 1930

Song o' My Heart

Peter ( Actor )

... 1930

... 1929

Little Old New York

John O'Day ( Actor )

... 1923