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