Jack MacGowran

Personal Info

Know For

Acting

Gender

Male

Birthday

1918-10-13 (55 years old)

Deathday

1973-01-30

Place of Birth

Dublin, Ireland

Jack MacGowran

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.

Acting

1965

1967

The Fearless Vampire Killers

as Professor Abronsius

1952

The Quiet Man

as Ignatius Feeney

1966

Cul-de-sac

as Albie

1963

Tom Jones

as Partridge

1973

The Exorcist

as Burke Dennings

1959

The Giant Behemoth

as Dr. Sampson, the paleontologist

1959

Blind Date

as Postman

1966

Silent Song

as Brother Michael

1968

Wonderwall

as Prof. Oscar Collins

1969

Age of Consent

as Nat Kelly

1966

Eh, Joe?

as Joe

1962

Captain Clegg

as Frightened Man

1970

1965

Young Cassidy

as Archie

1957

The Rising of the Moon

as Mickey J., The Poitín Maker (segment 'The Majesty of the Law')

1970

King Lear

as Fool

1952

The Gentle Gunman

as Patsy McGuire

1953

The Titfield Thunderbolt

as Vernon Crump (as Jack McGowran)

1967

The Inn Way Out

as Irish Poet

1972

The Shadow of a Gunman

as Seumas Shields

1965

Lord Jim

as Robinson

1956

Jacqueline

as Campbell

1957

Manuela

as Tommy

1962

The Brain

as Furber

1970

A Day at the Beach

as Collector

1967

1963

The Ceremony

as O'Brian

1958

Rooney

as Joe O'Connor

1962

Mix Me a Person

as Terence

1968

There's a Hole in Your Dustbin, Delilah

as 'Cheese and Egg' C.E. Petty

1953

1951

No Resting Place

as Billy Kyle

1962

Two and Two Make Six

as Night Porter

1958

She Didn't Say No!

as William Bates

1968

1959

The Boy and the Bridge

as Market Porter

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