J.M. Kerrigan
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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
Credits
Gone with the Wind (1939)
as Johnny Gallagher
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (1954)
as Billy
The Wolf Man (1941)
as Charles Conliffe
Under Suspicion (1930)
as Doyle
Motor Madness (1937)
as Henry John 'Cap' McNeil
The Fastest Gun Alive (1956)
as Kevin McGovern
Action in the North Atlantic (1943)
as Caviar Jinks (uncredited)
Mr. Lucky (1943)
as Mr. McDougal (uncredited)
The Lost Patrol (1934)
as Quincannon
Air Hostess (1933)
as Pop Kearny
The Sea Hawk (1940)
as Eli Matson
Undercover Agent (1939)
as Tom 'Pop' Madison
Werewolf of London (1935)
as Hawkins
The Prisoner of Shark Island (1936)
as Judge Maiben
The Long Voyage Home (1940)
as Crimp
The Informer (1935)
as Terry
Union Pacific (1939)
as Monahan
Careless Lady (1932)
as Trowbridge
Call Northside 777 (1948)
as Sullivan - Court Bailiff (uncredited)
Appointment for Love (1941)
as Timothy
The Fighting Seabees (1944)
as Sawyer Collins
The Luck of the Irish (1948)
as Tatie the Innkeeper
Tarzan and the Amazons (1945)
as Splivens
The Mystery of Edwin Drood (1935)
as Chief Verger Tope
The Spanish Main (1945)
as Pillery Gow
Two of a Kind (1951)
Actor
My Cousin Rachel (1952)
as Reverend Pascoe
Young Tom Edison (1940)
as Mr. McCarney
The Wild North (1952)
as Callahan
Vacation from Love (1938)
as Danny Dolan, Hansom Cabbie
Hot Tip (1935)
as Matt
A Modern Hero (1934)
as Mr. Ryan
The Fountain (1934)
as Shordley
The General Died at Dawn (1936)
as Leach
Captains of the Clouds (1942)
as Foster
London by Night (1937)
as Tims
Lloyd's of London (1936)
as Brook Watson
No Time for Comedy (1940)
as Jim
Barbary Coast (1935)
as Judge Harper
A Study in Scarlet (1933)
as Jabez Wilson
The Crime Doctor's Warning (1945)
as Robert MacPherson (uncredited)
Abie's Irish Rose (1946)
as Patrick Murphy
The Black Camel (1931)
as Thomas MacMasters
Special Investigator (1936)
as Judge Plumgate
The Flying Irishman (1939)
as Mr. Clyde Corrigan Sr.
The Plough and the Stars (1936)
as Uncle Peter
Wilson (1944)
as Edward Sullivan
The Key (1934)
as O'Duffy
The Vanishing Virginian (1942)
as John Phelps
Park Row (1952)
as Dan O'Rourke
It's a Dog's Life (1955)
as Paddy Corbin
A Feather in Her Hat (1935)
as Pobjoy
The Great John L. (1945)
as Father O'Malley
The Big Bonanza (1944)
as 'Judge' Jasper Kincaid
Ride a Crooked Mile (1938)
as Sgt. Flynn
She Went to the Races (1945)
as Jeff Habbard
Sabotage (1939)
as Mel
Rockabye (1932)
as Fagin
Congo Maisie (1940)
as Captain Finch
Colleen (1936)
as Pop Reilly
The Great Man Votes (1939)
as Hot Shot Gillings
Lone Cowboy (1933)
as Mr. Curran
The Kid From Texas (1939)
as Farr
The Silver Whip (1953)
as Riley
Vanessa: Her Love Story (1935)
as Perkins (uncredited)
Sealed Cargo (1951)
as Skipper Ben
Spring Madness (1938)
as Mr. Maloney (uncredited)
Song o' My Heart (1930)
as Peter
Sorority House (1939)
as Lew Fisher
Black Beauty (1946)
as John
The Fighting O'Flynn (1949)
as Timothy
Mrs. Mike (1949)
as Uncle John
Untamed (1940)
as Mr. Angus McGavity
6,000 Enemies (1939)
as Dan Barrett
Curtain Call (1940)
as Mr. Middleton
Let's Make a Million (1936)
as Sam Smith
The Rainbow Trail (1932)
as Paddy Harrigan
Merely Mary Ann (1931)
as First Drayman
Little Orphan Annie (1938)
as Tom Jennings
Little Old New York (1923)
as John O'Day
The Witness Vanishes (1939)
as Flinters
Don't Bet on Women (1931)
as Chipley Duff
New Movietone Follies of 1930 (1930)
as Gateman in Show
Timothy's Quest (1936)
as Dr. Cudd
Spendthrift (1936)
as Pop O'Connell
Laughing Irish Eyes (1936)
as Tim
Two Thoroughbreds (1939)
as Jack Lenihan
Two Bright Boys (1939)
as Mike Casey
The Zero Hour (1939)
as Timothy
One Crowded Night (1940)
as Brother 'Doc' Joseph
Lightnin' (1930)
as Judge Lemuel Townsend
Paddy the Next Best Thing (1933)
as Collins
Vanity Street (1932)
as Dan - Irish Cop (uncredited)
Lucky In Love (1929)
as Connors