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.
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
(Billy)
Gone with the Wind
(Johnny Gallagher)
Call Northside 777
(Sullivan - Court Bailiff (uncredited))
The Fighting Seabees
(Sawyer Collins)
Park Row
(Dan O'Rourke)
The Fastest Gun Alive
(Kevin McGovern)
Captains of the Clouds
(Foster (storekeeper / Emily's father))
Werewolf of London
(Hawkins)
The Wolf Man
(Charles Conliffe)
The Informer
(Terry)
The Black Camel
(Thomas MacMasters)
A Study in Scarlet
(Jabez Wilson)
The Lost Patrol
(Quincannon)
Congo Maisie
(Captain Finch)
Air Hostess
(Pop Kearny)
Lloyd's of London
(Brook Watson)
The Key
(O'Duffy)
The Witness Vanishes
(Flinters)
Lone Cowboy
(Mr. Curran)
The Prisoner of Shark Island
(Judge Maiben)
The Spanish Main
(Pillery Gow)
Colleen
(Pop Reilly)
The Big Bonanza
('Judge' Jasper Kincaid)
One Crowded Night
(Brother 'Doc' Joseph)
The Silver Whip
(Riley)
Paddy the Next Best Thing
(Collins)
Timothy's Quest
(Dr. Cudd)
My Cousin Rachel
(Reverend Pascoe)
Mrs. Mike
(Uncle John)
Abie's Irish Rose
(Patrick Murphy)
Black Beauty
(John)
Sorority House
(Lew Fisher)
Vanessa: Her Love Story
(Perkins (uncredited))
The Fountain
(Shordley)
Vanity Street
(Dan - Irish Cop (uncredited))
It's a Dog's Life
(Paddy Corbin)
The Luck of the Irish
(Tatie the Innkeeper)
Spring Madness
(Mr. Maloney (uncredited))
Little Old New York
(John O'Day)
Lightnin'
(Judge Lemuel Townsend)
6,000 Enemies
(Dan Barrett)
The Zero Hour
(Timothy)
The Fighting O'Flynn
(Timothy)
She Went to the Races
(Jeff Habbard)
The Sea Hawk
(Eli Matson)
The Plough and the Stars
(Uncle Peter)
Special Investigator
(Judge Plumgate)
Two Thoroughbreds
(Jack Lenihan)
Ride a Crooked Mile
(Sgt. Flynn)
The Crime Doctor's Warning
(Robert MacPherson (uncredited))
Undercover Agent
(Tom 'Pop' Madison)
The Wild North
(Callahan)
A Feather in Her Hat
(Pobjoy)
Hot Tip
(Matt)
The Flying Irishman
(Mr. Clyde Corrigan Sr.)
Union Pacific
(Monahan)
The Kid From Texas
(Farr)
Barbary Coast
(Judge Harper)
A Modern Hero
(Mr. Ryan)
Don't Bet on Women
(Chipley Duff)
Spendthrift
(Pop O'Connell)
Careless Lady
(Trowbridge)
Appointment for Love
(Timothy)
Young Tom Edison
(Mr. McCarney)
The Great Man Votes
(Hot Shot Gillings)
Rockabye
(Fagin)
No Time for Comedy
(Jim)
The Great John L.
(Father O'Malley)
The Long Voyage Home
(Crimp)
Untamed
(Mr. Angus McGavity)
London by Night
(Tims)
Sabotage
(Mel)
Curtain Call
(Mr. Middleton)
Sealed Cargo
(Skipper Ben)
Song o' My Heart
(Peter)
Lucky In Love
Little Orphan Annie
(Tom Jennings)
Tarzan and the Amazons
(Splivens)
The General Died at Dawn
(Leach)
The Vanishing Virginian
(John Phelps)
New Movietone Follies of 1930
Wilson
(Edward Sullivan)
Action in the North Atlantic
(Caviar Jinks (uncredited))
Mr. Lucky
(Mr. McDougal (uncredited))
Laughing Irish Eyes
(Tim)
The Rainbow Trail
(Paddy Harrigan)
Merely Mary Ann
(First Drayman)
Let's Make a Million
(Sam Smith)
Two Bright Boys
(Mike Casey)
Vacation from Love
(Danny Dolan, Hansom Cabbie)
Under Suspicion
(Doyle)
The Mystery of Edwin Drood
(Chief Verger Tope)
Two of a Kind
Studio One
(Pether Flynn)
General Electric Theater
(Jimmy)
Lux Video Theatre
(Dr. Makery)
Matinee Theater
Frontier
Letter to Loretta
(Mr. Thomas J. Flaherty)
General Electric Theater
(Dennis Malloy)
Shirley Temple's Storybook
(Mr Pickles)