J.M. Kerrigan

1884-12-16 Dublin, Ireland

Biografia

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.

Películas

	The Fastest Gun Alive	Kevin McGovern	1956-07-12
	It's a Dog's Life	Paddy Corbin	1955-12-23
	20,000 Leagues Under the Sea	Billy	1954-12-23
	The Silver Whip	Riley	1953-02-04
	The Wild North	Callahan	1952-01-28
	My Cousin Rachel	Reverend Pascoe	1952-12-25
	Park Row	Dan O'Rourke	1952-09-01
	Sealed Cargo	Skipper Ben	1951-05-19
	Mrs. Mike	Uncle John	1949-12-23
	The Fighting O'Flynn	Timothy	1949-02-26
	Call Northside 777	Sullivan - Court Bailiff (uncredited)	1948-02-13
	The Luck of the Irish	Tatie the Innkeeper	1948-09-15
	Black Beauty	John	1946-08-29
	Abie's Irish Rose	Patrick Murphy	1946-12-27
	The Spanish Main	Pillery Gow	1945-10-01
	The Great John L.	Father O'Malley	1945-05-25
	The Crime Doctor's Warning	Robert MacPherson (uncredited)	1945-09-27
	She Went to the Races	Jeff Habbard	1945-11-04
	Tarzan and the Amazons	Splivens	1945-04-29
	The Fighting Seabees	Sawyer Collins	1944-01-27
	The Big Bonanza	'Judge' Jasper Kincaid	1944-12-30
	Wilson	Edward Sullivan	1944-08-01
	Mr. Lucky	Mr. McDougal (uncredited)	1943-07-01
	Action in the North Atlantic	Caviar Jinks (uncredited)	1943-06-12
	The Vanishing Virginian	John Phelps	1942-02-01
	Captains of the Clouds	Foster (storekeeper / Emily's father)	1942-02-12
	Appointment for Love	Timothy	1941-10-31
	The Wolf Man	Charles Conliffe	1941-12-12
	Young Tom Edison	Mr. McCarney	1940-03-15
	Untamed	Angus McGavity	1940-07-24
	Congo Maisie	Captain Finch	1940-01-19
	The Sea Hawk	Eli Matson	1940-08-10
	No Time for Comedy	Jim	1940-09-14
	One Crowded Night	Brother 'Doc' Joseph	1940-08-09
	The Long Voyage Home	Crimp	1940-11-16
	Curtain Call	Mr. Middleton	1940-04-18
	The Zero Hour	Timothy	1939-05-26
	The Kid From Texas	Farr	1939-04-14
	Union Pacific	Monahan	1939-05-05
	Gone with the Wind	Johnny Gallagher	1939-12-15
	Undercover Agent	Tom 'Pop' Madison	1939-04-19
	6,000 Enemies	Dan Barrett	1939-06-09
	Two Thoroughbreds	Jack Lenihan	1939-12-08
	The Great Man Votes	Hot Shot Gillings	1939-01-13
	Sorority House	Lew Fisher	1939-05-05
	Sabotage	Mel	1939-10-13
	The Flying Irishman	Mr. Clyde Corrigan Sr.	1939-04-07
	Little Orphan Annie	Tom Jennings	1938-12-02
	Spring Madness	Mr. Maloney (uncredited)	1938-11-11
	Ride a Crooked Mile	Sgt. Flynn	1938-12-09
	London by Night	Tims	1937-07-30
	The Prisoner of Shark Island	Judge Maiben	1936-02-28
	Colleen	Pop Reilly	1936-03-21
	Spendthrift	Pop O'Connell	1936-07-22
	Special Investigator	Judge Plumgate	1936-05-08
	The General Died at Dawn	Leach	1936-11-17
	Lloyd's of London	Brook Watson	1936-11-25
	The Plough and the Stars	Uncle Peter	1936-12-26
	Laughing Irish Eyes	Tim	1936-03-04
	Werewolf of London	Hawkins	1935-05-13
	The Informer	Terry	1935-05-09
	Vanessa: Her Love Story	Perkins (uncredited)	1935-03-01
	Barbary Coast	Judge Harper	1935-10-13
	A Feather in Her Hat	Pobjoy	1935-10-25
	Hot Tip	Matt	1935-08-20
	The Lost Patrol	Quincannon	1934-02-16
	The Fountain	Shordley	1934-08-22
	The Key	O'Duffy	1934-06-09
	A Modern Hero	Mr. Ryan	1934-04-21
	Air Hostess	Pop Kearny	1933-01-15
	Paddy the Next Best Thing	Collins	1933-09-01
	A Study in Scarlet	Jabez Wilson	1933-05-14
	Rockabye	Fagin	1932-11-25
	Vanity Street	Dan - Irish Cop (uncredited)	1932-10-14
	Careless Lady	Trowbridge	1932-04-02
	Don't Bet on Women	Chipley Duff	1931-02-15
	The Black Camel	Thomas MacMasters	1931-06-21
	Lightnin'	Judge Lemuel Townsend	1930-11-28
	New Movietone Follies of 1930		1930-05-04
	Song o' My Heart	Peter	1930-03-11
	Lucky In Love		1929-08-16
	Little Old New York	John O'Day	1923-08-01