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