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 |
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Most Rating | 4.837 |
Birthday | 1884-12-16 |
Place of Birth | Dublin, Ireland |
Also Known As | Joseph M. Kerrigan, J. M. Kerrigan, |
1954
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
7/849
A ship sent to investigate a wave of mysterious sinkings encounters the advanced submarine, the Nautilus, commanded by Captain Nemo.
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20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
1939
Gone with the Wind
7.958/3920
The spoiled daughter of a Georgia plantation owner conducts a tumultuous romance with a cynical profiteer during the American Civil War and Reconstruc...
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Gone with the Wind
1944
The Fighting Seabees
6.2/46
Construction workers in World War II in the Pacific are needed to build military sites, but the work is dangerous and they doubt the ability of the Na...
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The Fighting Seabees
1956
The Fastest Gun Alive
6.824/54
Whenever it becomes known how good he is with guns, ex-gunman George and his wife Dora have to flee the town, in fear of all the gunmen who might want...
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The Fastest Gun Alive
1942
Captains of the Clouds
6.5/25
Inspired by Churchill's Dunkirk speech, brash, undisciplined Canadian bush pilot Brian MacLean and three friends enlist in the RCAF.
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Captains of the Clouds
1952
Park Row
6.7/32
In New York's 1880s newspaper district, a dedicated journalist manages to set up his own paper. It is an immediate success but attracts increasing opp...
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Park Row
1935
Werewolf of London
6.044/124
A strange animal attack turns a botanist into a bloodthirsty monster.
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Werewolf of London
1941
The Wolf Man
7.013/559
After his brother's death, Larry Talbot returns home to his father and the family estate. Events soon take a turn for the worse when Larry is bitten b...
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The Wolf Man
1935
The Informer
6.75/98
Gypo Nolan is a former Irish Republican Army man who drowns his sorrows in the bottle. He's desperate to escape his bleak Dublin life and start over i...
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The Informer
1931
The Black Camel
6/34
Movie star Shelah Fane is seeing wealthy Alan Jaynes while filming in Honolulu, Hawaii, but won't marry him without consulting famed psychic Tarneverr...
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The Black Camel
1933
A Study in Scarlet
5.5/25
In London, a secret society led by lawyer Thaddeus Merrydew collects the assets of any of its deceased members and divides them among the remaining me...
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A Study in Scarlet
1934
The Lost Patrol
6.4/58
A World War I British Army patrol is crossing the Mesopotamian desert when their commanding officer, the only one who knows their destination, is kill...
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The Lost Patrol
1940
Congo Maisie
4.2/5
Maisie gets lost in a jungle in Africa and the jungle of romance. The African jungle has snakes, crocodiles and witch doctors. The romantic jungle has...
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Congo Maisie
1933
Air Hostess
5.8/4
A plucky stewardess risks her life marrying a daredevil pilot.
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Air Hostess
1936
Lloyd's of London
7.2/18
Norfolk, England, 1770. The nephew of an innkeeper and the son of a reverend maintain a very close friendship until, after living a great adventure, t...
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Lloyd's of London
1934
The Key
4.9/7
A British officer stationed in Ireland falls for the wife of an intelligence man.
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The Key
1949
Mrs. Mike
2/1
This film is based on the novel, Mrs. Mike, which is based on the real life woman, Kathy O'Fallon Flannigan. A Boston teenager is sent to live with he...
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Mrs. Mike
1936
The Prisoner of Shark Island
6.9/49
After healing the leg of the murderer John Wilkes Booth, responsible for the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln, perpetrated on April 14, 1865...
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The Prisoner of Shark Island
1945
The Spanish Main
6.25/28
Laurent van Horn is the leader of a band of Dutch refugees on a ship seeking freedom in the Carolinas, when the ship is wrecked on the coast of Cartag...
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The Spanish Main
1936
Colleen
5.3/3
Musical about dingaling millionaire businessman Cedric Ames and his various employees
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Colleen
1944
The Big Bonanza
5.5/2
Having been falsely court marshaled for cowardice and sentenced to prison by the Army, Jed Kilton escapes and heads to Nevada Springs to see his kid b...
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The Big Bonanza
1936
Special Investigator
5.8/5
A lawyer changes from defending public enemies to bringing them to justice after his brother is killed.
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Special Investigator
1940
One Crowded Night
4/1
The future of a group of strangely connected lives is determined on one crucial night at a dinky motel in the desert.
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One Crowded Night
1933
Paddy the Next Best Thing
1/1
In Ireland, Major Adair’s older daughter Eileen is about to marry Lawrence Blake for his money in order to pay off her father’s debts, even though she...
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Paddy the Next Best Thing
1945
She Went to the Races
5.5/4
A group of scientists develop a system to pick winners at the racetrack. Comedy.
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She Went to the Races
1937
London by Night
6/6
A newspaperman, his canine companion, and an adventurous socialite investigate an umbrella-wielding murderer who is terrorizing a London neighborhood.
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London by Night
1939
Union Pacific
6.5/69
One of the last bills signed by President Lincoln authorizes pushing the Union Pacific Railroad across the wilderness to California. But financial opp...
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Union Pacific
1935
A Feather in Her Hat
6.8/4
After the woman who raised him claims he's not her son, Richard searches for clues about his identity. Urged on by his mentor, Capt. Randolph Courtney...
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A Feather in Her Hat
1941
Appointment for Love
5.2/4
Charming Andre Cassil woos physician Jane Alexander and the two impulsively get married. The honeymoon ends very quickly when Jane voices her progress...
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Appointment for Love
1939
Undercover Agent
4.8/3
A railway postal clerk goes after a sweepstakes counterfeiting ring.
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Undercover Agent
1936
Spendthrift
5/1
A profligate, polo-playing playboy (Henry Fonda) is married to a beautiful but superficial heiress (Mary Brian). They divorce, and the wife gets all t...
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Spendthrift
1939
The Great Man Votes
6.1/6
In 1923, Gregory Vance, a widower with two children, is a former scholar who has turned from book to bottle. He works, slightly, as a night-watchman,...
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The Great Man Votes
1932
Careless Lady
5.3/3
Innocent Sally Brown thinks men are only attracted to experienced women, so she poses as the wife of an unmarried businessman on a trip to Paris.
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Careless Lady
1931
Don't Bet on Women
4.2/4
At a big party, Roger Fallon, now a woman-hater, right to the core - this all due to a failed marriage and disastrous love affairs - talks to Herbert...
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Don't Bet on Women
1939
Two Thoroughbreds
2/1
A farm boy trains a wild colt on his own.
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Two Thoroughbreds
1946
Abie's Irish Rose
0/0
Cultures clash when a Jewish boy wants to marry an Irish girl.
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Abie's Irish Rose
1939
6,000 Enemies
6/6
A tough prosecutor who has sent dozens of criminals to prison finds himself framed on a bribery charge and winds up in prison himself.
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6,000 Enemies
1939
Sorority House
6.8/5
A young girl begins to wonder if she really fits into the upper-class sorority she's trying to join.
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Sorority House
1935
Barbary Coast
6.46/25
Mary Rutledge arrives from the east, finds her fiancé dead, and goes to work at the roulette wheel of Luis Chamalis' Bella Donna, a rowdy gambling hou...
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Barbary Coast
1932
Rockabye
6.2/10
A Broadway actress with a problematic past falls hard for the author of her new play.
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Rockabye
1938
Ride a Crooked Mile
0/0
The son of a cattle-rustling Cossack immigrant must choose between following the straight path and helping his father escape from prison.
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Ride a Crooked Mile
1946
Black Beauty
5.9/5
Based on Anna Sewell's novel. In rural England of the 1880's, widower Squire Wendon is rearing his young daughter Anne. Her father has forbidden her...
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Black Beauty
1939
The Zero Hour
4.5/2
A celebrated Broadway actress and a wealthy widowed businessman are brought together through their shared affection for a young orphan.
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The Zero Hour
1930
Lightnin'
3.7/3
Lightnin' and Mary Jones are co-owners of a hotel built right on a state border, used by divorcing wives so they can pretend to be in California while...
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Lightnin'
1936
The Plough and the Stars
5.6/15
A husband clashes with his wife over his membership to the Irish citizen army during the Easter rebellion.
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The Plough and the Stars
1940
Untamed
4.3/3
A courageous doctor braves a fierce blizzard in the Canadian wilderness to save a remote community from a deadly epidemic. He has come North to visit...
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Untamed
1935
Hot Tip
5/1
An amateur handicapper must help his future son-in-law recoup the money he lost while playing the ponies.
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Hot Tip
1952
My Cousin Rachel
6.737/38
A young man plots revenge against the woman he believes murdered his cousin, but his plans are shaken when he comes face to face with the enigmatic be...
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My Cousin Rachel
1940
Young Tom Edison
5.6/8
Inventor Thomas Edison's boyhood is chronicled and shows him as a lad whose early inventions and scientific experiments usually end up causing disastr...
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Young Tom Edison
1934
A Modern Hero
7/3
A 1920s circus performer uses every means at his disposal to achieve fame and fortune at the expense of others.
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A Modern Hero
1939
The Kid From Texas
6.5/2
A loud-mouthed Texas cowpuncher tries his hand at polo finding himself at odds with high society and trying to save a floundering Wild West show.
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The Kid From Texas
1949
The Fighting O'Flynn
6/2
A swashbuckling Irishman opposes French agents during the Napoleonic wars.
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The Fighting O'Flynn
1945
The Crime Doctor's Warning
5.5/4
A criminal psychologist treats an artist whose blackouts coincide with a series of murders.
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The Crime Doctor's Warning
1945
The Great John L.
5/2
Portrait of legendary fighter John L. Sullivan, aka "The Boston Strong Boy", and his meteoric rise to become the first gloved World Heavyweight Champ...
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The Great John L.
1923
Little Old New York
6.4/11
An Irish girl comes to America disguised as a boy to claim a fortune left to her brother who has died.
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Little Old New York
1939
Sabotage
7/3
The night before his grandson, Tommy Grayson, a mechanic at the Midland Aircraft Corporation, is to marry Gail, a former showgirl, Major Matt Grayson,...
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Sabotage
1939
The Flying Irishman
4.6/5
This is the story of the historic 1938 flight of Douglas 'Wrong Way' Corrigan. Mr. Corrigan starred in this film, which chronicled his infamous flight...
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The Flying Irishman
1940
The Sea Hawk
7.143/122
Dashing pirate Geoffrey Thorpe plunders Spanish ships for Queen Elizabeth I and falls in love with Dona Maria, a beautiful Spanish royal he captures.
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The Sea Hawk
1948
The Luck of the Irish
5.794/17
Following American reporter Stephen Fitzgerald from Ireland to New York, a grateful leprechaun acts as the newsman's servant and conscience.
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The Luck of the Irish
1938
Spring Madness
3.9/5
Harvard senior Sam Thatcher (Lew Ayres) and his best friend and roommate, known as "The Lippencott" (Burgess Meredith), plan to go to Russia after gra...
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Spring Madness
1955
It's a Dog's Life
3/2
A bull terrier tells his life story, from the streets of the Bowery to a life of luxury.
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It's a Dog's Life
1952
The Wild North
6.9/8
In the Canadian mountains, a trapper goes on the run accused of a crime and is pursued by a rugged and determined lawman of the Royal North-West Mount...
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The Wild North
1934
The Fountain
9.5/1
Set during the first World War in neutral, but pro-German, Holland, Lewis Allison, an interned British officer, is paroled to the castle of Baron Von...
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The Fountain
1940
No Time for Comedy
5.5/8
An aspiring playwright finds himself an overnight Broadway success.
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No Time for Comedy
1940
The Long Voyage Home
6.5/76
The crew of the merchant ship Glencairn hope to survive a transatlantic crossing during World War II. Adapted from four Eugene O'Neill one-act plays.
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The Long Voyage Home
1935
Vanessa: Her Love Story
6/4
The Victorian wife of a mad baron waits years for a British soldier sent to Egypt.
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Vanessa: Her Love Story
1932
Vanity Street
6.7/3
A New York policeman helps a hungry and penniless young woman start life anew by arranging to get her a job in "The Follies".
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Vanity Street
1940
Curtain Call
7.3/3
Two theatrical producers plan to get even with a demanding actress by tricking her into starring in the worst play they can find.
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Curtain Call
1930
Song o' My Heart
3.7/3
Broken hearts in Ireland. Sean is a great tenor, in semi-retirement, living in a village close to Mary, the woman he’s always loved. Mary’s aunt convi...
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Song o' My Heart
1951
Sealed Cargo
6.4/21
A Newfoundland fishingboat comes to the aid of a wrecked Danish sailing ship and tows it to a small village, but eventually the captain of the fishing...
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Sealed Cargo
1929
Lucky In Love
0/0
Michael O'More, an American who lives in Ireland with his uncle, a horsetrainer for the Earl of Balkerry, loves Lady Mary Cardigan, granddaughter of t...
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Lucky In Love
1938
Little Orphan Annie
0/0
Annie (Ann Gillis), an orphan, (based on Harold Gray's comic strip but who is at no point in the film called 'Little Orphan Annie), is befriended by a...
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Little Orphan Annie
1936
The General Died at Dawn
6.2/13
China, 1930s, during the ravaging civil war. General Pen entrusts O'Hara, an intrepid American adventurer, with the mission of providing a large sum o...
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The General Died at Dawn
1945
Tarzan and the Amazons
6.3/72
A group of archaeologists asks Tarzan to help them find an ancient city in a hidden valley of women. He refuses, but Boy is tricked into doing the job...
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Tarzan and the Amazons
1930
New Movietone Follies of 1930
0/0
Minimum plot. Maximum stars of early cinema. Rich young Conrad Sterling (William Collier Jr.) is in love with struggling actress Mary Mason (Miriam Se...
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New Movietone Follies of 1930
1942
The Vanishing Virginian
6/1
The perineal District Attorney and conservative southern patriarch cherishes the old ways and does his best to adjust to change.
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The Vanishing Virginian
1944
Wilson
5.5/22
The political career of Woodrow Wilson is chronicled, beginning with his decision to leave his post at Princeton to run for Governor of New Jersey, an...
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Wilson
1943
Action in the North Atlantic
7/51
Merchant Marine sailors Joe Rossi (Humphrey Bogart) and Steve Jarvis (Raymond Massey) are charged with getting a supply vessel to Russian allies as pa...
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Action in the North Atlantic
1943
Mr. Lucky
6.9/36
A conman poses as a war relief fundraiser, but when he falls for a charity worker, his conscience begins to trouble him.
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Mr. Lucky
1936
Laughing Irish Eyes
0/0
An Irish crooner flirts with prize-fighting.
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Laughing Irish Eyes
1953
The Silver Whip
6.4/8
Frustrated with the lack of opportunities in his hometown, young Jess Harker plans to leave, but sympathetic stagecoach armed guard Race Crim persuade...
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The Silver Whip
1948
Call Northside 777
6.6/150
In 1932, a cop is killed and Frank Wiecek sentenced to life. Eleven years later, a newspaper ad by Frank's mother leads Chicago reporter P.J. O'Neal t...
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