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Jack MacGowran

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. John Joseph "Jack" MacGowran (October 13, 1918 – January 31, 1973) was an Irish character actor, whose last film role was as the alcoholic director Burke Dennings in The Exorcist. He was probably best known for his work with Samuel Beckett. Description above from the Wikipedia article Jack MacGowran , licensed under CC-BY-SA,full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Known For: Acting

Born: Dublin, Ireland, 1918-10-13

Died: 1973-01-30

Film

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1951	No Resting Place	Billy Kyle	0
2	1952	The Quiet Man	Ignatius Feeney	73
3	1952	The Gentle Gunman	Patsy McGuire	62
4	1953	Time Bomb		52
5	1953	The Titfield Thunderbolt	Vernon Crump (as Jack McGowran)	70
6	1953	The Titfield Thunderbolt	Vernon Crump	70
7	1956	Jacqueline	Campbell	60
8	1957	Manuela	Tommy	57
9	1957	The Rising of the Moon	Mickey J., The Poitín Maker (segment 'The Majesty of the Law')	69
10	1958	Rooney	Joe O'Connor	55
11	1958	She Didn't Say No!	William Bates	63
12	1959	The Giant Behemoth	Dr. Sampson, the paleontologist	58
13	1959	I Captured the King of the Leprechauns	Phadrig Oge	90
14	1959	Darby O'Gill and the Little People	Phadrig Oge	67
15	1959	The Boy and the Bridge	Market Porter	50
16	1959	Blind Date	Postman	60
17	1962	Two and Two Make Six	Night Porter	60
18	1962	Captain Clegg	Frightened Man	62
19	1962	Mix Me a Person	Terence	62
20	1962	The Brain	Furber	56
21	1963	Tom Jones	Partridge	59
22	1963	The Ceremony	O'Brian	51
23	1965	Beginning to End	Man	0
24	1965	Lord Jim	Robinson	68
25	1965	Young Cassidy	Archie	63
26	1965	Doctor Zhivago	Petya	75
27	1966	Silent Song	Brother Michael	0
28	1966	The Stable Door		0
29	1966	Cul-de-sac	Albie	67
30	1966	Eh, Joe?	Joe	0
31	1967	The Inn Way Out	Irish Poet	0
32	1967	How I Won the War	Juniper	55
33	1967	The Fearless Vampire Killers	Professor Abronsius	70
34	1968	Wonderwall	Prof. Oscar Collins	52
35	1968	Faithful Departed	narrator	0
36	1968	There's a Hole in Your Dustbin, Delilah	'Cheese and Egg' C.E. Petty	0
37	1969	Age of Consent	Nat Kelly	60
38	1970	The Yin and the Yang of Mr. Go	Leo Zimmerman	46
39	1970	Start the Revolution Without Me	Jacques	59
40	1970	A Day at the Beach	Collector	45
41	1970	King Lear	Fool	66
42	1972	The Shadow of a Gunman	Seumas Shields	0
43	1973	The Exorcist	Burke Dennings	77
44	2023	Leap of Faith: William Friedkin on The Exorcist	Self (archive footage)	73
45		Third Eye		0

Television

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1957	Sailor of Fortune	Sean, Irish Deck Hand	0
2	1961	The Avengers	Professor Poole	77
3	1962	Zero One		60
4	1965	Gideon's Way	'Happy' Roden	68
5	1965	BBC Play of the Month	Trinculo	50
6	1968	The Champions	Banner B. Banner	61
7	1972	Banacek	Michele Lanier	86