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The Fastest Gun Alive

as Kevin McGovern

1956
The Silver Whip

as Riley

1953
The Wild North

as Callahan

1952
My Cousin Rachel

as Reverend Pascoe

1952
Sealed Cargo

as Skipper Ben

1951
The Fighting O'Flynn

as Timothy

1949
The Luck of the Irish

as Tatie the Innkeeper

1948
Black Beauty

as John

1946
Tarzan and the Amazons

as Splivens

1945
The Spanish Main

as Pillery Gow

1945
The Fighting Seabees

as Sawyer Collins

1944
The Big Bonanza

as 'Judge' Jasper Kincaid

1944
Appointment for Love

as Timothy

1941
Congo Maisie

as Captain Finch

1940
No Time for Comedy

as Jim

1940
Untamed

as Angus McGavity

1940
Undercover Agent

as Tom 'Pop' Madison

1939
The Zero Hour

as Timothy

1939
Sabotage

as Mel

1939
Ride a Crooked Mile

as Sgt. Flynn

1938
London by Night

as Tims

1937
Lloyd's of London

as Brook Watson

1936
Werewolf of London

as Hawkins

1935
The Informer

as Terry

1935
The Key

as O'Duffy

1934
A Study in Scarlet

as Jabez Wilson

1933
Rockabye

as Fagin

1932
J. M. Kerrigan J. M. Kerrigan

Birthday

1884-12-15

Place of Birth

Dublin, Ireland

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.
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