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 Fords The Informer. In that film and in Fords 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 Im 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 Disneys 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (1954), the famous film version of Jules Vernes 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. OMalley in the show Barnaby and Mr. OMalley, 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.

Filmes indisponível de J.M. Kerrigan

20,000 Leagues Under the Sea

Billy

Filme 1954

Gone with the Wind

Johnny Gallagher

Filme 1939

Call Northside 777

Sullivan - Court Bailiff (uncredited)

Filme 1948

The Fighting Seabees

Sawyer Collins

Filme 1944

Park Row

Dan O'Rourke

Filme 1952

The Fastest Gun Alive

Kevin McGovern

Filme 1956

Captains of the Clouds

Foster (storekeeper / Emily's father)

Filme 1942

Werewolf of London

Hawkins

Filme 1935

The Wolf Man

Charles Conliffe

Filme 1941

The Informer

Terry

Filme 1935

The Black Camel

Thomas MacMasters

Filme 1931

A Study in Scarlet

Jabez Wilson

Filme 1933

The Lost Patrol

Quincannon

Filme 1934

Congo Maisie

Captain Finch

Filme 1940

Air Hostess

Pop Kearny

Filme 1933

Lloyd's of London

Brook Watson

Filme 1936

The Key

O'Duffy

Filme 1934

The Witness Vanishes

Flinters

Filme 1939

Lone Cowboy

Mr. Curran

Filme 1933

The Prisoner of Shark Island

Judge Maiben

Filme 1936

The Spanish Main

Pillery Gow

Filme 1945

Colleen

Pop Reilly

Filme 1936

The Big Bonanza

'Judge' Jasper Kincaid

Filme 1944

One Crowded Night

Brother 'Doc' Joseph

Filme 1940

The Silver Whip

Riley

Filme 1953

Paddy the Next Best Thing

Collins

Filme 1933

Timothy's Quest

Dr. Cudd

Filme 1936

Untamed

Mr. Angus McGavity

Filme 1940

Sorority House

Lew Fisher

Filme 1939

Vanity Street

Dan - Irish Cop (uncredited)

Filme 1932

Black Beauty

John

Filme 1946

Union Pacific

Monahan

Filme 1939

Abie's Irish Rose

Patrick Murphy

Filme 1946

The Great John L.

Father O'Malley

Filme 1945

The Long Voyage Home

Crimp

Filme 1940

The Plough and the Stars

Uncle Peter

Filme 1936

Barbary Coast

Judge Harper

Filme 1935

A Feather in Her Hat

Pobjoy

Filme 1935

Appointment for Love

Timothy

Filme 1941

Undercover Agent

Tom 'Pop' Madison

Filme 1939

The Great Man Votes

Hot Shot Gillings

Filme 1939

Ride a Crooked Mile

Sgt. Flynn

Filme 1938

Spendthrift

Pop O'Connell

Filme 1936

Vanessa: Her Love Story

Perkins (uncredited)

Filme 1935

The Zero Hour

Timothy

Filme 1939

The Crime Doctor's Warning

Robert MacPherson (uncredited)

Filme 1945

6,000 Enemies

Dan Barrett

Filme 1939

Special Investigator

Judge Plumgate

Filme 1936

Rockabye

Fagin

Filme 1932

Mrs. Mike

Uncle John

Filme 1949

Two Thoroughbreds

Jack Lenihan

Filme 1939

A Modern Hero

Mr. Ryan

Filme 1934

The Flying Irishman

Mr. Clyde Corrigan Sr.

Filme 1939

Spring Madness

Mr. Maloney (uncredited)

Filme 1938

The Fighting O'Flynn

Timothy

Filme 1949

The Sea Hawk

Eli Matson

Filme 1940

Young Tom Edison

Mr. McCarney

Filme 1940

My Cousin Rachel

Reverend Pascoe

Filme 1952

It's a Dog's Life

Paddy Corbin

Filme 1955

The Wild North

Callahan

Filme 1952

No Time for Comedy

Jim

Filme 1940

Hot Tip

Matt

Filme 1935

The Fountain

Shordley

Filme 1934

Little Old New York

John O'Day

Filme 1923

Lightnin'

Judge Lemuel Townsend

Filme 1930

Careless Lady

Trowbridge

Filme 1932

Don't Bet on Women

Chipley Duff

Filme 1931

Sabotage

Mel

Filme 1939

Sealed Cargo

Skipper Ben

Filme 1951

Song o' My Heart

Peter

Filme 1930

Lucky In Love

Filme 1929

Little Orphan Annie

Tom Jennings

Filme 1938

Tarzan and the Amazons

Splivens

Filme 1945

The General Died at Dawn

Leach

Filme 1936

The Vanishing Virginian

John Phelps

Filme 1942

New Movietone Follies of 1930

Filme 1930

Wilson

Edward Sullivan

Filme 1944

Action in the North Atlantic

Caviar Jinks (uncredited)

Filme 1943

Mr. Lucky

Mr. McDougal (uncredited)

Filme 1943

Laughing Irish Eyes

Tim

Filme 1936

The Rainbow Trail

Paddy Harrigan

Filme 1932

Merely Mary Ann

First Drayman

Filme 1931

Let's Make a Million

Sam Smith

Filme 1936

Two Bright Boys

Mike Casey

Filme 1939

Vacation from Love

Danny Dolan, Hansom Cabbie

Filme 1938

Under Suspicion

Doyle

Filme 1930

The Mystery of Edwin Drood

Chief Verger Tope

Filme 1935

Two of a Kind

Filme 1951

Série de TV indisponível de J.M. Kerrigan

Studio One

Pether Flynn

Tv 1948

General Electric Theater

Jimmy

Tv 1953

Lux Video Theatre

Dr. Makery

Tv 1950

Matinee Theater

Tv 1955

Frontier

Tv 1955

Letter to Loretta

Mr. Thomas J. Flaherty

Tv 1953

General Electric Theater

Dennis Malloy

Tv 1953

Shirley Temple's Storybook

Mr Pickles

Tv 1958