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