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.
Billy
Filme 1954
Johnny Gallagher
Filme 1939
Sullivan - Court Bailiff (uncredited)
Filme 1948
Sawyer Collins
Filme 1944
Dan O'Rourke
Filme 1952
Kevin McGovern
Filme 1956
Foster (storekeeper / Emily's father)
Filme 1942
Hawkins
Filme 1935
Charles Conliffe
Filme 1941
Terry
Filme 1935
Thomas MacMasters
Filme 1931
Jabez Wilson
Filme 1933
Quincannon
Filme 1934
Captain Finch
Filme 1940
Pop Kearny
Filme 1933
Brook Watson
Filme 1936
O'Duffy
Filme 1934
Flinters
Filme 1939
Mr. Curran
Filme 1933
Judge Maiben
Filme 1936
Pillery Gow
Filme 1945
Pop Reilly
Filme 1936
'Judge' Jasper Kincaid
Filme 1944
Brother 'Doc' Joseph
Filme 1940
Riley
Filme 1953
Collins
Filme 1933
Dr. Cudd
Filme 1936
Mr. Angus McGavity
Filme 1940
Lew Fisher
Filme 1939
Dan - Irish Cop (uncredited)
Filme 1932
John
Filme 1946
Monahan
Filme 1939
Patrick Murphy
Filme 1946
Father O'Malley
Filme 1945
Crimp
Filme 1940
Uncle Peter
Filme 1936
Judge Harper
Filme 1935
Pobjoy
Filme 1935
Timothy
Filme 1941
Tom 'Pop' Madison
Filme 1939
Hot Shot Gillings
Filme 1939
Sgt. Flynn
Filme 1938
Pop O'Connell
Filme 1936
Perkins (uncredited)
Filme 1935
Timothy
Filme 1939
Robert MacPherson (uncredited)
Filme 1945
Dan Barrett
Filme 1939
Judge Plumgate
Filme 1936
Fagin
Filme 1932
Uncle John
Filme 1949
Jack Lenihan
Filme 1939
Mr. Ryan
Filme 1934
Mr. Clyde Corrigan Sr.
Filme 1939
Mr. Maloney (uncredited)
Filme 1938
Timothy
Filme 1949
Eli Matson
Filme 1940
Mr. McCarney
Filme 1940
Reverend Pascoe
Filme 1952
Paddy Corbin
Filme 1955
Callahan
Filme 1952
Jim
Filme 1940
Matt
Filme 1935
Shordley
Filme 1934
John O'Day
Filme 1923
Judge Lemuel Townsend
Filme 1930
Trowbridge
Filme 1932
Chipley Duff
Filme 1931
Mel
Filme 1939
Skipper Ben
Filme 1951
Peter
Filme 1930
Filme 1929
Tom Jennings
Filme 1938
Splivens
Filme 1945
Leach
Filme 1936
John Phelps
Filme 1942
Filme 1930
Edward Sullivan
Filme 1944
Caviar Jinks (uncredited)
Filme 1943
Mr. McDougal (uncredited)
Filme 1943
Tim
Filme 1936
Paddy Harrigan
Filme 1932
First Drayman
Filme 1931
Sam Smith
Filme 1936
Mike Casey
Filme 1939
Danny Dolan, Hansom Cabbie
Filme 1938
Doyle
Filme 1930
Chief Verger Tope
Filme 1935
Filme 1951
Pether Flynn
Tv 1948
Jimmy
Tv 1953
Dr. Makery
Tv 1950
Tv 1955
Tv 1955
Mr. Thomas J. Flaherty
Tv 1953
Dennis Malloy
Tv 1953
Mr Pickles
Tv 1958