J.M. Kerrigan
1884-12-16 ( 140 years old ) in Dublin, Ireland

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.

Movies

The Fastest Gun Alive 1956-07-12
It's a Dog's Life 1955-12-23
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea 1954-12-23
The Silver Whip 1953-02-04
My Cousin Rachel 1952-12-25
Park Row 1952-09-01
The Wild North 1952-01-28
Two of a Kind 1951-07-01
Sealed Cargo 1951-05-19
Mrs. Mike 1949-12-23
The Fighting O'Flynn 1949-02-26
The Luck of the Irish 1948-09-15
Call Northside 777 1948-02-13
Abie's Irish Rose 1946-12-27
Black Beauty 1946-08-29
She Went to the Races 1945-11-04
The Spanish Main 1945-10-01
The Crime Doctor's Warning 1945-09-27
The Great John L. 1945-05-25
Tarzan and the Amazons 1945-04-29
The Big Bonanza 1944-12-30
Wilson 1944-08-01
The Fighting Seabees 1944-01-27
Mr. Lucky 1943-07-01
Action in the North Atlantic 1943-06-12
Captains of the Clouds 1942-02-12
The Vanishing Virginian 1942-02-01
The Wolf Man 1941-12-12
Appointment for Love 1941-10-31
The Long Voyage Home 1940-11-16
No Time for Comedy 1940-09-14
The Sea Hawk 1940-08-10
One Crowded Night 1940-08-09
Untamed 1940-07-24
Curtain Call 1940-04-18
Young Tom Edison 1940-03-15
Congo Maisie 1940-01-19
Gone with the Wind 1939-12-15
Two Thoroughbreds 1939-12-08
Sabotage 1939-10-13
The Witness Vanishes 1939-09-22
Two Bright Boys 1939-09-21
6,000 Enemies 1939-06-09
The Zero Hour 1939-05-26
Sorority House 1939-05-05
Union Pacific 1939-05-05
Undercover Agent 1939-04-19
The Kid From Texas 1939-04-14
The Flying Irishman 1939-04-07
The Great Man Votes 1939-01-13
Ride a Crooked Mile 1938-12-09
Little Orphan Annie 1938-12-02
Spring Madness 1938-11-11
Vacation from Love 1938-09-29
London by Night 1937-07-30
The Plough and the Stars 1936-12-26
Lloyd's of London 1936-11-25
The General Died at Dawn 1936-11-17
Let's Make a Million 1936-09-01
Spendthrift 1936-07-22
Special Investigator 1936-05-08
Colleen 1936-03-21
Laughing Irish Eyes 1936-03-04
The Prisoner of Shark Island 1936-02-28
Timothy's Quest 1936-01-31
A Feather in Her Hat 1935-10-25
Barbary Coast 1935-10-13
Hot Tip 1935-08-20
Werewolf of London 1935-05-13
The Informer 1935-05-09
Vanessa: Her Love Story 1935-03-01
The Mystery of Edwin Drood 1935-02-04
The Fountain 1934-08-22
The Key 1934-06-09
A Modern Hero 1934-04-21
The Lost Patrol 1934-02-16
Lone Cowboy 1933-12-02
Paddy the Next Best Thing 1933-09-01
A Study in Scarlet 1933-05-14
Air Hostess 1933-01-15
Rockabye 1932-11-25
Vanity Street 1932-10-14
Careless Lady 1932-04-02
The Rainbow Trail 1932-01-03
Merely Mary Ann 1931-09-06
The Black Camel 1931-06-21
Don't Bet on Women 1931-02-15
Under Suspicion 1930-12-28
Lightnin' 1930-11-28
New Movietone Follies of 1930 1930-05-04
Song o' My Heart 1930-03-11
Lucky In Love 1929-08-16
Little Old New York 1923-08-01

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