Jack MacGowran

from Dublin, Ireland

Artwork for The ExorcistImage of 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.

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Timeline

1974Aged 56

  • Poster for The Yin and the Yang of Mr. Go

    Leo Zimmerman

1973Aged 55

  • Poster for The Exorcist

    Burke Dennings

1972Aged 54

  • Poster for The Shadow of a Gunman

    Seumas Shields

1970Aged 52

  • Poster for Start the Revolution Without Me

    Jacques

  • Poster for A Day at the Beach

    Collector

  • Poster for King Lear

    Fool

1969Aged 51

  • Poster for Wonderwall

    Prof. Oscar Collins

  • Poster for Age of Consent

    Nat Kelly

1968Aged 50

  • Poster for Faithful Departed

    Self - Narrator (voice)

  • Poster for There's a Hole in Your Dustbin, Delilah

    'Cheese and Egg' C.E. Petty

1967Aged 49

  • Poster for The Inn Way Out

    Irish Poet

  • Poster for How I Won the War

    Juniper

  • Poster for The Fearless Vampire Killers

    Professor Abronsius

1966Aged 48

  • Poster for Silent Song

    Brother Michael

  • Poster for The Stable Door

    (Unknown)

  • Poster for Cul-de-sac

    Albie

  • Poster for Eh, Joe?

    Joe

1965Aged 47

  • Poster for Beginning to End

    Man

  • Poster for Lord Jim

    Robinson

  • Poster for Young Cassidy

    Archie

  • Poster for Doctor Zhivago

    Petya

1963Aged 45

  • Poster for Tom Jones

    Partridge

  • Poster for The Ceremony

    O'Brian

1962Aged 44

  • Poster for Two and Two Make Six

    Night Porter

  • Poster for Captain Clegg

    Frightened Man

  • Poster for Mix Me a Person

    Terence

  • Poster for The Brain

    Furber

1959Aged 41

  • Poster for The Giant Behemoth

    Dr. Sampson, the paleontologist

  • Poster for I Captured the King of the Leprechauns

    Phadrig Oge

  • Poster for Darby O'Gill and the Little People

    Phadrig Oge

  • Poster for The Boy and the Bridge

    Market Porter

  • Poster for Blind Date

    Postman

1958Aged 40

  • Poster for Rooney

    Joe O'Connor

  • Poster for She Didn't Say No!

    William Bates

1957Aged 39

  • Poster for The Rising of the Moon

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

  • Poster for Manuela

    Tommy

1956Aged 38

  • Poster for Jacqueline

    Campbell

1953Aged 35

  • Poster for Time Bomb

    (Unknown)

  • Poster for The Titfield Thunderbolt

    Vernon Crump (as Jack McGowran)

1952Aged 34

  • Poster for The Quiet Man

    Ignatius Feeney

  • Poster for The Gentle Gunman

    Patsy McGuire

1951Aged 33

  • Poster for No Resting Place

    Billy Kyle

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