Jack MacGowran
Born: 1918-10-13 in Dublin, Ireland
Died: 1973-01-30
Known For: Acting
Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. John Joseph "Jack" MacGowran (October 13, 1918 – January 31, 1973) was an Irish character actor, whose last film role was as the alcoholic director Burke Dennings in The Exorcist. He was probably best known for his work with Samuel Beckett. Description above from the Wikipedia article Jack MacGowran , licensed under CC-BY-SA,full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Filmography
1974
- The Yin and the Yang of Mr. Go as Leo Zimmerman
1973
- The Exorcist as Burke Dennings
1972
- Banacek as Michele Lanier
- The Shadow of a Gunman as Seumas Shields
1970
- King Lear as Fool
- Start the Revolution Without Me as Jacques
- A Day at the Beach as Collector
1969
- Wonderwall as Prof. Oscar Collins
- Age of Consent as Nat Kelly
1968
- The Champions as Banner B. Banner
- Faithful Departed as Self - Narrator (voice)
- There's a Hole in Your Dustbin, Delilah as 'Cheese and Egg' C.E. Petty
1967
- ITV Playhouse as Cheese & Egg [C.E.Petty]
- Half Hour Story as Alec
- The Fearless Vampire Killers as Professor Abronsius
- How I Won the War as Juniper
- The Inn Way Out as Irish Poet
1966
- Cul-de-sac as Albie
- The Stable Door
- Silent Song as Brother Michael
- Eh, Joe? as Joe
1965
- BBC Play of the Month as Trinculo
- Thirty-Minute Theatre as Coates
- Gideon's Way as 'Happy' Roden
- Doctor Zhivago as Petya
- Lord Jim as Robinson
- Young Cassidy as Archie
- Beginning to End as Man
1964
- Theatre 625 as Jeremiah Hudson
- The Wednesday Play as Brother Michael
- Thursday Theatre as Father
1963
- Espionage as Matt Youghal
- Sergeant Cork as Drummer
- Tom Jones as Partridge
- The Ceremony as O'Brian
1962
- Zero One
- Captain Clegg as Frightened Man
- The Brain as Furber
- Two and Two Make Six as Night Porter
- Mix Me a Person as Terence
1961
- The Avengers as Professor Poole
- Drama 61-67 as Herbert Reynolds
1960
- Danger Man as Prior
- Armchair Mystery Theatre as Albert Brady
1959
- Darby O'Gill and the Little People as Phadrig Oge
- Blind Date as Postman
- I Captured the King of the Leprechauns as Phadrig Oge
- The Giant Behemoth as Dr. Sampson, the paleontologist
- The Boy and the Bridge as Market Porter
1958
- She Didn't Say No! as William Bates
- Rooney as Joe O'Connor
1957
- Overseas Press Club - Exclusive! as Jimmy Walsh
- Sailor of Fortune as Sean, Irish Deck Hand
- Manuela as Tommy
- The Rising of the Moon as Mickey J., The Poitín Maker (segment 'The Majesty of the Law')
1956
- Armchair Theatre
- Jacqueline as Campbell
1953
- The Titfield Thunderbolt as Vernon Crump (as Jack McGowran)
- Time Bomb
1952
- The Quiet Man as Ignatius Feeney
- The Gentle Gunman as Patsy McGuire
1951
- No Resting Place as Billy Kyle