J.M. Kerrigan
Acting
Born December 16, 1884 · Dublin, Ireland
Biography
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 Sheri…
Known For · 40 titles
Matinee Theater
Studio One
Shirley Temple's Storybook
Gone with the Wind
Lux Video Theatre
Frontier
Letter to Loretta
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
General Electric Theater
The Wolf Man
The Sea Hawk
The Fighting Seabees
Under Suspicion
Call Northside 777
The Fastest Gun Alive
Mr. Lucky
Action in the North Atlantic
Motor Madness
Union Pacific
The Long Voyage Home
Tarzan and the Amazons
Werewolf of London
The Lost Patrol
The General Died at Dawn
The Informer
The Wild North
My Cousin Rachel
The Spanish Main
Hot Tip
Barbary Coast
No Time for Comedy
Careless Lady
Vacation from Love
The Prisoner of Shark Island
The Plough and the Stars
Appointment for Love
Abie's Irish Rose
Undercover Agent
The Kid From Texas
Two of a Kind