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J.M. Kerrigan‌

Gender

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Birthday

calendar1884-12-16

Popularity

star1.4

J.M. Kerrigan

Dublin, Ireland

J.M. Kerrigan

Dublin, Ireland

Gender

Male

Birthday

calendar1884-12-16

Popularity

star1.4

Biography

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.

Movie Credits

20,000 Leagues Under the Sea

20,000 Leagues Under the Sea‌
star7.0
calendar 1954

Gone with the Wind

Gone with the Wind‌
star7.9
calendar 1939

Call Northside 777

Call Northside 777‌
star6.6
calendar 1948

The Fighting Seabees

The Fighting Seabees‌
star6.2
calendar 1944

Park Row

Park Row‌
star6.7
calendar 1952

The Fastest Gun Alive

The Fastest Gun Alive‌
star6.8
calendar 1956

Captains of the Clouds

Captains of the Clouds‌
star6.5
calendar 1942

Werewolf of London

Werewolf of London‌
star6.0
calendar 1935

The Wolf Man

The Wolf Man‌
star7.0
calendar 1941

The Informer

The Informer‌
star6.7
calendar 1935

The Black Camel

The Black Camel‌
star6.0
calendar 1931

A Study in Scarlet

A Study in Scarlet‌
star5.5
calendar 1933

The Lost Patrol

The Lost Patrol‌
star6.5
calendar 1934

Congo Maisie

Congo Maisie‌
star4.2
calendar 1940

Air Hostess

Air Hostess‌
star5.8
calendar 1933

Lloyd's of London

Lloyd's of London‌
star7.2
calendar 1936

The Key

The Key‌
star4.9
calendar 1934

The Prisoner of Shark Island

The Prisoner of Shark Island‌
star6.9
calendar 1936

The Spanish Main

The Spanish Main‌
star6.2
calendar 1945

Colleen

Colleen‌
star5.3
calendar 1936

The Big Bonanza

The Big Bonanza‌
star5.5
calendar 1944

One Crowded Night

One Crowded Night‌
star4.0
calendar 1940

The Silver Whip

The Silver Whip‌
star6.4
calendar 1953

Paddy the Next Best Thing

Paddy the Next Best Thing‌
star1.0
calendar 1933

Untamed

Untamed‌
star4.3
calendar 1940

Sorority House

Sorority House‌
star6.8
calendar 1939

London by Night

London by Night‌
star6.0
calendar 1937

Vanity Street

Vanity Street‌
star6.8
calendar 1932

Black Beauty

Black Beauty‌
star5.9
calendar 1946

Union Pacific

Union Pacific‌
star6.5
calendar 1939

The Kid From Texas

The Kid From Texas‌
star6.5
calendar 1939

Abie's Irish Rose

Abie's Irish Rose‌
star0.0
calendar 1946

The Great John L.

The Great John L.‌
star5.0
calendar 1945

The Long Voyage Home

The Long Voyage Home‌
star6.5
calendar 1940

The Plough and the Stars

The Plough and the Stars‌
star5.6
calendar 1936

Barbary Coast

Barbary Coast‌
star6.5
calendar 1935

A Feather in Her Hat

A Feather in Her Hat‌
star6.8
calendar 1935

Appointment for Love

Appointment for Love‌
star5.2
calendar 1941

Undercover Agent

Undercover Agent‌
star4.8
calendar 1939

The Great Man Votes

The Great Man Votes‌
star6.1
calendar 1939

Ride a Crooked Mile

Ride a Crooked Mile‌
star0.0
calendar 1938

Spendthrift

Spendthrift‌
star5.0
calendar 1936

Vanessa: Her Love Story

Vanessa: Her Love Story‌
star6.0
calendar 1935

The Zero Hour

The Zero Hour‌
star4.5
calendar 1939

The Crime Doctor's Warning

The Crime Doctor's Warning‌
star5.5
calendar 1945

She Went to the Races

She Went to the Races‌
star5.5
calendar 1945

6,000 Enemies

6,000 Enemies‌
star6.0
calendar 1939

Special Investigator

Special Investigator‌
star5.8
calendar 1936

Rockabye

Rockabye‌
star6.2
calendar 1932

Mrs. Mike

Mrs. Mike‌
star2.0
calendar 1949

Two Thoroughbreds

Two Thoroughbreds‌
star2.0
calendar 1939

A Modern Hero

A Modern Hero‌
star7.0
calendar 1934

The Flying Irishman

The Flying Irishman‌
star4.6
calendar 1939

Spring Madness

Spring Madness‌
star3.9
calendar 1938

The Fighting O'Flynn

The Fighting O'Flynn‌
star6.0
calendar 1949

The Sea Hawk

The Sea Hawk‌
star7.1
calendar 1940

Young Tom Edison

Young Tom Edison‌
star5.6
calendar 1940

My Cousin Rachel

My Cousin Rachel‌
star6.7
calendar 1952

The Luck of the Irish

The Luck of the Irish‌
star5.8
calendar 1948

It's a Dog's Life

It's a Dog's Life‌
star3.0
calendar 1955

The Wild North

The Wild North‌
star6.9
calendar 1952

No Time for Comedy

No Time for Comedy‌
star5.5
calendar 1940

Hot Tip

Hot Tip‌
star5.0
calendar 1935

The Fountain

The Fountain‌
star9.5
calendar 1934

Little Old New York

Little Old New York‌
star6.4
calendar 1923

Lightnin'

Lightnin'‌
star3.7
calendar 1930

Careless Lady

Careless Lady‌
star5.3
calendar 1932

Don't Bet on Women

Don't Bet on Women‌
star4.2
calendar 1931

Sabotage

Sabotage‌
star7.0
calendar 1939

Curtain Call

Curtain Call‌
star7.3
calendar 1940

Sealed Cargo

Sealed Cargo‌
star6.4
calendar 1951

Song o' My Heart

Song o' My Heart‌
star3.7
calendar 1930

Lucky In Love

Lucky In Love‌
star0.0
calendar 1929

Little Orphan Annie

Little Orphan Annie‌
star0.0
calendar 1938

Tarzan and the Amazons

Tarzan and the Amazons‌
star6.3
calendar 1945

The General Died at Dawn

The General Died at Dawn‌
star6.0
calendar 1936

The Vanishing Virginian

The Vanishing Virginian‌
star6.0
calendar 1942

New Movietone Follies of 1930

New Movietone Follies of 1930‌
star0.0
calendar 1930

Wilson

Wilson‌
star5.5
calendar 1944

Action in the North Atlantic

Action in the North Atlantic‌
star7.0
calendar 1943

Mr. Lucky

Mr. Lucky‌
star6.9
calendar 1943

Laughing Irish Eyes

Laughing Irish Eyes‌
star0.0
calendar 1936

Tv Credits

Studio One

Studio One‌
star4.4
calendar 1948

General Electric Theater

General Electric Theater‌
star5.5
calendar 1953

Lux Video Theatre

Lux Video Theatre‌
star5.5
calendar 1950

Matinee Theater

Matinee Theater‌
star3.3
calendar 1955

Shirley Temple's Storybook

Shirley Temple's Storybook‌
star5.0
calendar 1958

Frontier

Frontier‌
star5.0
calendar 1955

Letter to Loretta

Letter to Loretta‌
star5.8
calendar 1953

General Electric Theater

General Electric Theater‌
star5.5
calendar 1953