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.
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Jack MacGowran Biography / Wiki
| Name | Jack MacGowran |
| Also Know | Jack McGowran, Джек МакГоурен |
| Gender | Male |
| Known For | Acting |
| Place of Birth | Dublin, Ireland |
| Date of Birth | 1918-10-13 |
| Age(as in 2022) | 54 |
| Deathday | 1973-01-30 |
Jack MacGowran Acting Movies
| Movie Name | Character | Release Date | Overview |
| The Fearless Vampire Killers | Professor Abronsius | 1967-02-01 | A noted professor and his dim-witted apprentice fall prey to their inquiring vampires, while on the trail of the ominous damsel in distress…. |
| Wonderwall | Prof. Oscar Collins | 1968-05-17 | The eccentric professor Collins lives completely secluded in his chaotic apartment. When the model Penny moves in next to him, he becomes fascinated o… |
| There’s a Hole in Your Dustbin, Delilah | ‘Cheese and Egg’ C.E. Petty | 1968-09-30 | A skiving bin gang are on high alert when their new inspector takes an interest…. |
| Faithful Departed | narrator | 1968-07-02 | This short documentary draws on the photographs of Robert French from the William Lawrence Collection held in the National Library. The photos illustr… |
| Beginning to End | Man | 1965-01-01 | A recital of passages from the works of Samuel Beckett, performed by Jack MacGowran, as a raving old man…. |
| Eh, Joe? | Joe | 1966-07-04 | The first English broadcast of Eh, Joe? which aired on BBC2 on July 4th, 1966 with Jack MacGowran, for whom the play was specifically written, playing… |
| Embers | Henry | 1959-06-24 | Embers is a radio play written by Samuel Beckett first broadcast on the BBC Third Programme on 24th June 1959. Henry’s father ended his life in the s… |
| The Stable Door | 1966-06-01 | This is a film made as an elaborate advert for the Insurance Industry. A group of criminals conspire to rob a warehouse which has also been spotted as… | |
| Age of Consent | Nat Kelly | 1969-05-13 | An elderly artist thinks he has become too stale and is past his prime. His friend (and agent) persuades him to go to an offshore island to try once m… |
| The Yin and the Yang of Mr. Go | Leo Zimmerman | 1970-01-01 | An American draft dodger and aspiring writer named Nero Finnigan (Jeff Bridges) becomes involved with the notorious Mr. Go (James Mason), an oriental … |
| No Resting Place | Billy Kyle | 1951-01-12 | The brilliant British documentary filmmaker Paul Rotha made his feature-film debut with 1950’s No Resting Place. Filmed on location in Ireland, the fi… |
| Cul-de-sac | Albie | 1966-06-17 | A wounded criminal and his dying partner take refuge at an old beachfront fortress. The owner of the fortress and his young wife, initially unwilling … |
| Start the Revolution Without Me | Jacques | 1970-08-14 | An account of the adventures of two sets of identical twins, badly scrambled at birth, on the eve of the French Revolution. One set is haughty and ari… |
| The Rising of the Moon | Mickey J. – the poitÃn maker (1st Episode) | 1957-08-10 | Three vignettes of old Irish country life, based on a series of short stories. In “The Majesty of the Law,” a police officer must arrest a very old-fa… |
| Manuela | Tommy | 1957-07-18 | James Prothero, forty-three years old and up to his ears in alcohol, is the skipper of a tramp ship due to leave South America for Britain – and heâ… |
| How I Won the War | Juniper | 1967-10-18 | An inept British WWII commander leads his troops to a series of misadventures in North Africa and Europe…. |
| Mix Me a Person | Terence | 1962-08-31 | Eighteen-year-old Harry Jukes is literally holding a smoking gun in his hand. His lawyer thinks he did it, but his psychiatrist disagrees — and sets… |
| A Day at the Beach | Collector | 1970-05-01 | Bernie is a silver tongued wanderer with a fondness for drink and no clear goal in life. What was supposed to be a day of fun at the seaside turns to … |
| The Exorcist | Burke Dennings | 1973-12-26 | 12-year-old Regan MacNeil begins to adapt an explicit new personality as strange events befall the local area of Georgetown. Her mother becomes torn b… |
| The Giant Behemoth | Dr. Sampson, the paleontologist | 1959-03-03 | Marine atomic tests cause changes in the ocean’s ecosystem resulting in dangerous blobs of radiation and the resurrection of a dormant dinosaur which … |
| Blind Date | Postman | 1959-08-01 | Dutch painter Jan-Van Rooyer hurries to keep a rendezvous with Jacqueline Cousteau, an elegant, sophisticated Frenchwoman, slightly his elder, whose r… |
| Young Cassidy | Archie | 1965-02-25 | In Dublin circa 1911, John Cassidy (Rod Taylor), an impoverished idealist, whose ambitions are restricted by the demands of looking after his family, … |
| The Ceremony | O’Brian | 1963-12-18 | A man has an affair with his condemned brother’s girlfriend while plotting his escape in Tangier…. |
| She Didn’t Say No! | William Bates | 1958-09-30 | Bridget Monaghan, a single mother who has had six children by different fathers, shocks the conservative inhabitants of an Irish village…. |
| Rooney | Joe O’Connor | 1958-03-24 | The life of James Ignatius Rooney, a Dublin rubbish collector during the week and a Gaelic sportsman at the weekends…. |
| Tom Jones | Partridge | 1963-08-24 | Tom loves Sophie and Sophie loves Tom. But Tom and Sophie are of differering classes. Can they find a way through the mayhem to be true to love?… |
| Lord Jim | Robinson | 1965-02-15 | After being discredited as a coward, a 19th century seaman (Peter O’Toole) lives for only one purpose: to redeem himself. Based on Joseph Conrad’s nov… |
| Two and Two Make Six | Night Porter | 1962-05-01 | An US airman stationed in the UK strikes down his commanding officer. Believing he killed him, the airman goes on the run with a girl. They run into a… |
| The Brain | Furber | 1962-09-05 | A millionaire businessman’s brain is kept alive after a fatal accident, and communicates clues to a doctor on the trail of the killer… |
| Darby O’Gill and the Little People | Phadrig Oge | 1959-06-24 | A wily old codger matches wits with the King of the Leprechauns and helps play matchmaker for his daughter and the strapping lad who has replaced him … |
| I Captured the King of the Leprechauns | Phadrig Oge | 1959-05-29 | Behind the scenes of Darby O’Gill and the Little People…. |
| Captain Clegg | Frightened Man | 1962-06-13 | What secret lay behind the dreaded Marsh Phantoms, the ghostly riders whose silent approach in the darkness of the bleak, unwelcoming Romney Marshes c… |
| The Titfield Thunderbolt | Vernon Crump | 1953-03-04 | When British Railways announce the closure of the Titfield to Mallingford branch line a group of local residents make a bid to run it themselves, back… |
| The Quiet Man | Ignatius Feeney | 1952-07-21 | An American man returns to the village of his birth in Ireland, where he finds love and conflict…. |
| Jacqueline | Campbell | 1956-06-04 | Jacqueline is the daughter of Belfast shipyard worker Mike McNeil. The worker’s worth is compromised by his crippling fear of heights. Dismissed from … |
| Doctor Zhivago | Petya | 1965-12-22 | The life of a Russian physician and poet who, although married to another, falls in love with a political activist’s wife and experiences hardship dur… |
| Time Bomb | 1953-02-05 | When a saboteur places an explosive device on a train full of sea mines, the authorities call for bomb expert Peter Lyncort to diffuse the situation, … | |
| The Titfield Thunderbolt | Vernon Crump (as Jack McGowran) | 1953-03-04 | When British Railways announce the closure of the Titfield to Mallingford branch line a group of local residents make a bid to run it themselves, back… |
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