J.M. Kerrigan

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.

Known For: Acting

Born: Dublin, Ireland, 1884-12-16

Died: 1964-04-29

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1923	Little Old New York	John O'Day	64
2	1929	Lucky In Love		0
3	1930	Song o' My Heart	Peter	44
4	1930	New Movietone Follies of 1930	Gateman in Show	0
5	1930	Lightnin'	Judge Lemuel Townsend	37
6	1930	Under Suspicion	Doyle	0
7	1931	Don't Bet on Women	Chipley Duff	42
8	1931	The Black Camel	Thomas MacMasters	60
9	1931	Merely Mary Ann	First Drayman	0
10	1932	The Rainbow Trail	Paddy Harrigan	0
11	1932	Careless Lady	Trowbridge	52
12	1932	Vanity Street	Dan - Irish Cop (uncredited)	68
13	1932	Rockabye	Fagin	62
14	1933	Air Hostess	Pop Kearny	58
15	1933	A Study in Scarlet	Jabez Wilson	55
16	1933	Paddy the Next Best Thing	Collins	10
17	1933	Lone Cowboy	Mr. Curran	35
18	1934	The Lost Patrol	Quincannon	65
19	1934	A Modern Hero	Mr. Ryan	70
20	1934	The Key	O'Duffy	50
21	1934	The Fountain	Shordley	95
22	1935	The Mystery of Edwin Drood	Chief Verger Tope	55
23	1935	Vanessa: Her Love Story	Perkins (uncredited)	60
24	1935	The Informer	Terry	67
25	1935	Werewolf of London	Hawkins	60
26	1935	Hot Tip	Matt	50
27	1935	Barbary Coast	Judge Harper	66
28	1935	A Feather in Her Hat	Pobjoy	68
29	1936	Timothy's Quest	Dr. Cudd	30
30	1936	The Prisoner of Shark Island	Judge Maiben	68
31	1936	Laughing Irish Eyes	Tim	0
32	1936	Colleen	Pop Reilly	53
33	1936	Special Investigator	Judge Plumgate	58
34	1936	Spendthrift	Pop O'Connell	50
35	1936	Let's Make a Million	Sam Smith	0
36	1936	The General Died at Dawn	Leach	62
37	1936	Lloyd's of London	Brook Watson	71
38	1936	The Plough and the Stars	Uncle Peter	58
39	1937	London by Night	Tims	59
40	1938	Vacation from Love	Danny Dolan, Hansom Cabbie	0
41	1938	Spring Madness	Mr. Maloney (uncredited)	39
42	1938	Little Orphan Annie	Tom Jennings	0
43	1938	Ride a Crooked Mile	Sgt. Flynn	0
44	1939	The Great Man Votes	Hot Shot Gillings	61
45	1939	The Flying Irishman	Mr. Clyde Corrigan Sr.	46
46	1939	The Kid From Texas	Farr	65
47	1939	Undercover Agent	Tom 'Pop' Madison	39
48	1939	Sorority House	Lew Fisher	68
49	1939	Union Pacific	Monahan	65
50	1939	The Zero Hour	Timothy	45
51	1939	6,000 Enemies	Dan Barrett	60
52	1939	Two Bright Boys	Mike Casey	0
53	1939	The Witness Vanishes	Flinters	63
54	1939	Sabotage	Mel	70
55	1939	Two Thoroughbreds	Jack Lenihan	20
56	1939	Gone with the Wind	Johnny Gallagher	79
57	1940	Congo Maisie	Captain Finch	42
58	1940	Young Tom Edison	Mr. McCarney	56
59	1940	Curtain Call	Mr. Middleton	73
60	1940	Untamed	Mr. Angus McGavity	43
61	1940	One Crowded Night	Brother 'Doc' Joseph	40
62	1940	The Sea Hawk	Eli Matson	71
63	1940	No Time for Comedy	Jim	54
64	1940	The Long Voyage Home	Crimp	66
65	1941	Appointment for Love	Timothy	57
66	1941	The Wolf Man	Charles Conliffe	70
67	1942	The Vanishing Virginian	John Phelps	60
68	1942	Captains of the Clouds	Foster (storekeeper / Emily's father)	64
69	1943	Action in the North Atlantic	Caviar Jinks (uncredited)	71
70	1943	Mr. Lucky	Mr. McDougal (uncredited)	70
71	1944	The Fighting Seabees	Sawyer Collins	62
72	1944	Wilson	Edward Sullivan	55
73	1944	The Big Bonanza	'Judge' Jasper Kincaid	55
74	1945	Tarzan and the Amazons	Splivens	63
75	1945	The Great John L.	Father O'Malley	50
76	1945	The Crime Doctor's Warning	Robert MacPherson (uncredited)	55
77	1945	The Spanish Main	Pillery Gow	63
78	1945	She Went to the Races	Jeff Habbard	55
79	1946	Black Beauty	John	59
80	1946	Abie's Irish Rose	Patrick Murphy	0
81	1948	Call Northside 777	Sullivan - Court Bailiff (uncredited)	66
82	1948	The Luck of the Irish	Tatie the Innkeeper	57
83	1949	The Fighting O'Flynn	Timothy	60
84	1949	Mrs. Mike	Uncle John	20
85	1951	Sealed Cargo	Skipper Ben	64
86	1951	Two of a Kind		67
87	1952	The Wild North	Callahan	69
88	1952	Park Row	Dan O'Rourke	67
89	1952	My Cousin Rachel	Reverend Pascoe	67
90	1953	The Silver Whip	Riley	64
91	1954	20,000 Leagues Under the Sea	Billy	70
92	1955	It's a Dog's Life	Paddy Corbin	30
93	1956	The Fastest Gun Alive	Kevin McGovern	69

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1948	Studio One	Pether Flynn	50
2	1950	Lux Video Theatre	Dr. Makery	63
3	1953	General Electric Theater	Jimmy	63
4	1953	General Electric Theater	Dennis Malloy	63
5	1953	Letter to Loretta	Mr. Thomas J. Flaherty	65
6	1955	Frontier		50
7	1955	Matinee Theater		50
8	1958	Shirley Temple's Storybook	Mr Pickles	62

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