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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Películas (95)
The Fastest Gun Alive
1956 · Kevin McGovern
It's a Dog's Life
1955 · Paddy Corbin
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
1954 · Billy
The Silver Whip
1953 · Riley
My Cousin Rachel
1952 · Reverend Pascoe
Park Row
1952 · Dan O'Rourke
The Wild North
1952 · Callahan
Two of a Kind
1951
Sealed Cargo
1951 · Skipper Ben
Mrs. Mike
1949 · Uncle John
The Fighting O'Flynn
1949 · Timothy
The Luck of the Irish
1948 · Tatie the Innkeeper
Call Northside 777
1948 · Sullivan - Court Bailiff (uncredited)
Abie's Irish Rose
1946 · Patrick Murphy
Black Beauty
1946 · John
She Went to the Races
1945 · Jeff Habbard
The Spanish Main
1945 · Pillery Gow
The Crime Doctor's Warning
1945 · Robert MacPherson (uncredited)
The Great John L.
1945 · Father O'Malley
Tarzan and the Amazons
1945 · Splivens
The Big Bonanza
1944 · 'Judge' Jasper Kincaid
Wilson
1944 · Edward Sullivan
The Fighting Seabees
1944 · Sawyer Collins
Mr. Lucky
1943 · Mr. McDougal (uncredited)
Action in the North Atlantic
1943 · Caviar Jinks (uncredited)
Captains of the Clouds
1942 · Foster
The Vanishing Virginian
1942 · John Phelps
The Wolf Man
1941 · Charles Conliffe
Appointment for Love
1941 · Timothy
The Long Voyage Home
1940 · Crimp
No Time for Comedy
1940 · Jim
The Sea Hawk
1940 · Eli Matson
One Crowded Night
1940 · Brother 'Doc' Joseph
Untamed
1940 · Mr. Angus McGavity
Curtain Call
1940 · Mr. Middleton
Young Tom Edison
1940 · Mr. McCarney
Congo Maisie
1940 · Captain Finch
Gone with the Wind
1939 · Johnny Gallagher
Two Thoroughbreds
1939 · Jack Lenihan
Sabotage
1939 · Mel
The Witness Vanishes
1939 · Flinters
Two Bright Boys
1939 · Mike Casey
6,000 Enemies
1939 · Dan Barrett
The Zero Hour
1939 · Timothy
Sorority House
1939 · Lew Fisher
Union Pacific
1939 · Monahan
Undercover Agent
1939 · Tom 'Pop' Madison
The Kid From Texas
1939 · Farr
The Flying Irishman
1939 · Mr. Clyde Corrigan Sr.
The Great Man Votes
1939 · Hot Shot Gillings
Ride a Crooked Mile
1938 · Sgt. Flynn
Little Orphan Annie
1938 · Tom Jennings
Spring Madness
1938 · Mr. Maloney (uncredited)
Vacation from Love
1938 · Danny Dolan, Hansom Cabbie
The Barrier
1937 · Sgt. Thomas
London by Night
1937 · Tims
Motor Madness
1937 · Henry John 'Cap' McNeil
The Plough and the Stars
1936 · Uncle Peter
Lloyd's of London
1936 · Brook Watson
The General Died at Dawn
1936 · Leach
Let's Make a Million
1936 · Sam Smith
Spendthrift
1936 · Pop O'Connell
Special Investigator
1936 · Judge Plumgate
Colleen
1936 · Pop Reilly
Laughing Irish Eyes
1936 · Tim
The Prisoner of Shark Island
1936 · Judge Maiben
Timothy's Quest
1936 · Dr. Cudd
A Feather in Her Hat
1935 · Pobjoy
Barbary Coast
1935 · Judge Harper
Hot Tip
1935 · Matt
Werewolf of London
1935 · Hawkins
The Informer
1935 · Terry
Vanessa: Her Love Story
1935 · Perkins (uncredited)
The Mystery of Edwin Drood
1935 · Chief Verger Tope
The Fountain
1934 · Shordley
The Key
1934 · O'Duffy
A Modern Hero
1934 · Mr. Ryan
The Lost Patrol
1934 · Quincannon
Lone Cowboy
1933 · Mr. Curran
Paddy the Next Best Thing
1933 · Collins
A Study in Scarlet
1933 · Jabez Wilson
Air Hostess
1933 · Pop Kearny
Rockabye
1932 · Fagin
Vanity Street
1932 · Dan - Irish Cop (uncredited)
Careless Lady
1932 · Trowbridge
The Rainbow Trail
1932 · Paddy Harrigan
Merely Mary Ann
1931 · First Drayman
The Black Camel
1931 · Thomas MacMasters
Don't Bet on Women
1931 · Chipley Duff
Under Suspicion
1930 · Doyle
Lightnin'
1930 · Judge Lemuel Townsend
New Movietone Follies of 1930
1930 · Gateman in Show
Song o' My Heart
1930 · Peter
Lucky In Love
1929 · Connors
Little Old New York
1923 · John O'Day
