J.M. Kerrigan

About

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....

Known for

Matinee TheaterSeries • 1955Studio OneSeries • 1948Gone with the WindMovie • 1939Shirley Temple's StorybookSeries • 1958Lux Video TheatreSeries • 195020,000 Leagues Under the SeaMovie • 1954The Wolf ManMovie • 1941The Sea HawkMovie • 1940Union PacificMovie • 1939The Lost PatrolMovie • 1934The InformerMovie • 1935The Fastest Gun AliveMovie • 1956The Long Voyage HomeMovie • 1940Action in the North AtlanticMovie • 1943Call Northside 777Movie • 1948The Prisoner of Shark IslandMovie • 1936Mr. LuckyMovie • 1943Tarzan and the AmazonsMovie • 1945Werewolf of LondonMovie • 1935The Plough and the StarsMovie • 1936The Fighting SeabeesMovie • 1944The Spanish MainMovie • 1945The Luck of the IrishMovie • 1948The General Died at DawnMovie • 1936