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J.M. Kerrigan
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J.M. Kerrigan
Known For
Acting
Birthday
1884-12-16,Dublin, Ireland
Gender
Male
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.

Filmography

20,000 Leagues Under the Sea

7.033

20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
1954-12-23

Gone with the Wind

7.9

Gone with the Wind
1939-03-12

Call Northside 777

6.6

Call Northside 777
1948-02-13

The Fighting Seabees

6.2

The Fighting Seabees
1944-01-27

6.7

Park Row
1952-09-01

The Fastest Gun Alive

6.8

The Fastest Gun Alive
1956-07-12

Captains of the Clouds

6.5

Captains of the Clouds
1942-02-12

Werewolf of London

6

Werewolf of London
1935-05-13

6.977

The Wolf Man
1941-12-12

6.7

The Informer
1935-05-09

The Black Camel

6

The Black Camel
1931-06-21

A Study in Scarlet

5.5

A Study in Scarlet
1933-05-14

The Lost Patrol

6.5

The Lost Patrol
1934-02-16

4.2

Congo Maisie
1940-01-19

5.8

Air Hostess
1933-01-15

Lloyd's of London

7.2

Lloyd's of London
1936-11-25

4.9

The Key
1934-06-09

The Witness Vanishes

6.7

The Witness Vanishes
1939-09-22

3.5

Lone Cowboy
1933-12-02

The Prisoner of Shark Island

6.9

The Prisoner of Shark Island
1936-02-28

The Spanish Main

6.2

The Spanish Main
1945-10-01

5.3

Colleen
1936-03-21

The Big Bonanza

5.5

The Big Bonanza
1944-12-30

One Crowded Night

4

One Crowded Night
1940-08-09

The Silver Whip

6.4

The Silver Whip
1953-02-04

Paddy the Next Best Thing

1

Paddy the Next Best Thing
1933-09-01

Timothy's Quest

3

Timothy's Quest
1936-01-31

4.3

Untamed
1940-07-24

6.8

Sorority House
1939-05-05

London by Night

6

London by Night
1937-07-30

6.8

Vanity Street
1932-10-14

5.9

Black Beauty
1946-08-29

6.5

Union Pacific
1939-05-05

The Kid From Texas

6.5

The Kid From Texas
1939-04-14

Abie's Irish Rose

0

Abie's Irish Rose
1946-12-27

The Great John L.

5

The Great John L.
1945-05-25

The Long Voyage Home

6.5

The Long Voyage Home
1940-11-16

The Plough and the Stars

5.6

The Plough and the Stars
1936-12-26

6.5

Barbary Coast
1935-10-13

A Feather in Her Hat

6.8

A Feather in Her Hat
1935-10-25

Appointment for Love

5.2

Appointment for Love
1941-10-31

Undercover Agent

4.8

Undercover Agent
1939-04-19

The Great Man Votes

6.1

The Great Man Votes
1939-01-13

Ride a Crooked Mile

0

Ride a Crooked Mile
1938-12-09

5

Spendthrift
1936-07-22

Vanessa: Her Love Story

6

Vanessa: Her Love Story
1935-03-01

4.5

The Zero Hour
1939-05-26

The Crime Doctor's Warning

5.5

The Crime Doctor's Warning
1945-09-27

She Went to the Races

5.5

She Went to the Races
1945-11-04

6

6,000 Enemies
1939-06-09

Special Investigator

5.8

Special Investigator
1936-05-08

6.2

Rockabye
1932-11-25

2

Mrs. Mike
1949-12-23

Two Thoroughbreds

2

Two Thoroughbreds
1939-12-08

7

A Modern Hero
1934-04-21

The Flying Irishman

4.6

The Flying Irishman
1939-04-07

3.9

Spring Madness
1938-11-11

The Fighting O'Flynn

6

The Fighting O'Flynn
1949-02-26

7.1

The Sea Hawk
1940-08-10

Young Tom Edison

5.6

Young Tom Edison
1940-03-15

My Cousin Rachel

6.725

My Cousin Rachel
1952-12-25

The Luck of the Irish

5.7

The Luck of the Irish
1948-09-15

It's a Dog's Life

3

It's a Dog's Life
1955-12-23

6.9

The Wild North
1952-01-28

No Time for Comedy

5.5

No Time for Comedy
1940-09-14

5

Hot Tip
1935-08-20

9.5

The Fountain
1934-08-22

Little Old New York

6.4

Little Old New York
1923-08-01

3.7

Lightnin'
1930-11-28

5.3

Careless Lady
1932-04-02

Don't Bet on Women

4.2

Don't Bet on Women
1931-02-15

7

Sabotage
1939-10-13

7.3

Curtain Call
1940-04-18

6.4

Sealed Cargo
1951-05-19

Song o' My Heart

3.7

Song o' My Heart
1930-03-11

0

Lucky In Love
1929-08-16

Little Orphan Annie

0

Little Orphan Annie
1938-12-02

Tarzan and the Amazons

6.3

Tarzan and the Amazons
1945-04-29

The General Died at Dawn

6.1

The General Died at Dawn
1936-11-17

The Vanishing Virginian

6

The Vanishing Virginian
1942-02-01

New Movietone Follies of 1930

0

New Movietone Follies of 1930
1930-05-04

5.5

Wilson
1944-08-01

Action in the North Atlantic

7

Action in the North Atlantic
1943-06-12

6.9

Mr. Lucky
1943-07-01

Laughing Irish Eyes

0

Laughing Irish Eyes
1936-03-04

The Rainbow Trail

0

The Rainbow Trail
1932-01-03

Merely Mary Ann

0

Merely Mary Ann
1931-09-06

Let's Make a Million

0

Let's Make a Million
1936-09-01

Two Bright Boys

0

Two Bright Boys
1939-09-21

Vacation from Love

0

Vacation from Love
1938-09-29

Under Suspicion

0

Under Suspicion
1930-12-28

The Mystery of Edwin Drood

5.5

The Mystery of Edwin Drood
1935-02-04

6.7

Two of a Kind
1951-07-01

4.4

Studio One
1948-11-07

General Electric Theater

5.5

General Electric Theater
1953-02-01

Lux Video Theatre

5.5

Lux Video Theatre
1950-10-02

Matinee Theater

3.3

Matinee Theater
1955-10-31

Shirley Temple's Storybook

5

Shirley Temple's Storybook
1958-01-12

5

Frontier
1955-09-25

Letter to Loretta

5.8

Letter to Loretta
1953-09-20

General Electric Theater

5.5

General Electric Theater
1953-02-01