Jack MacGowran

Jack MacGowran

Born: October 13, 1918
Died: January 30, 1973
in Dublin, Ireland
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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Leap of Faith: William Friedkin on The Exorcist
Title: Leap of Faith: William Friedkin on The Exorcist
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: October 5, 2023
Type: Movie
A lyrical and spiritual cinematic essay on The Exorcist, the last film of Alexandre O. Philippe explores the uncharted depths of William Friedkin’s mind’s eye, the nuances of his filmmaking process, and the mysteries of faith and fate that have shaped his life and filmography.
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The Exorcist
Title: The Exorcist
Character: Burke Dennings
Released: December 26, 1973
Type: Movie
When a charming 12-year-old girl takes on the characteristics and voices of others, doctors say there is nothing they can do. As people begin to die, the girl's mother realizes her daughter has been possessed by the devil--and that her daughter's only possible hope lies with two priests and the ancient rite of demonic exorcism.
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The Shadow of a Gunman
Title: The Shadow of a Gunman
Character: Seumas Shields
Released: December 4, 1972
Type: Movie
Is a sensitive and mysterious poet really an IRA gunman in hiding? Set in a Dublin tenement in the 1920s, this was the first part of Sean O'Casey's celebrated "Dublin Trilogy." Equal parts comedy and tragedy, this classic play is brilliantly performed by a stellar cast.
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Title: Banacek
Character: Michele Lanier
Released: September 13, 1972
Type: TV
Banacek is an American detective TV series starring George Peppard that aired on the NBC network from 1972 to 1974. The series was part of the rotating NBC Wednesday Mystery Movie anthology. It alternated in its time slot with several other shows but was the only one to last beyond its first season.
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King Lear
Title: King Lear
Character: Fool
Released: February 4, 1971
Type: Movie
King Lear, old and tired, divides his kingdom among his daughters, giving great importance to their protestations of love for him. When Cordelia, youngest and most honest, refuses to idly flatter the old man in return for favor, he banishes her and turns for support to his remaining daughters. But Goneril and Regan have no love for him and instead plot to take all his power from him. In a parallel, Lear's loyal courtier Gloucester favors his illegitimate son Edmund after being told lies about his faithful son Edgar. Madness and tragedy befall both ill-starred fathers.
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A Day at the Beach
Title: A Day at the Beach
Character: Collector
Released: May 1, 1970
Type: Movie
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 dust as he drinks his way through a seaside resort community, trailing his little niece Winnie.
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Start the Revolution Without Me
Title: Start the Revolution Without Me
Character: Jacques
Released: February 4, 1970
Type: Movie
Two sets of identical twins are accidentally switched at birth. One pair, Phillipe and Pierre DeSisi, are aristocratic and haughty, while the other, Charles and Claude Coupé, are poor and dim-witted. On the eve of the French Revolution, both sets find themselves entangled in palace intrigue.
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The Yin and the Yang of Mr. Go
Title: The Yin and the Yang of Mr. Go
Character: Leo Zimmerman
Released: January 1, 1970
Type: Movie
An American draft dodger and aspiring writer named Nero Finnigan becomes involved with the notorious Mr. Go, an organized crime mastermind. They conspire to blackmail an American weapons scientist into providing secrets to Mr. Go's organization for resale to the highest bidder. "The Dolphin" then arrives, who is an American CIA agent and James Joyce scholar, and is charged with recovering the scientist and his work by whatever means necessary.
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Age of Consent
Title: Age of Consent
Character: Nat Kelly
Released: May 13, 1969
Type: Movie
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 more. On the island he re-discovers his muse in the form of a young girl.
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There's a Hole in Your Dustbin, Delilah
Title: There's a Hole in Your Dustbin, Delilah
Character: 'Cheese and Egg' C.E. Petty
Released: September 30, 1968
Type: Movie
A skiving bin gang are on high alert when their new inspector takes an interest.
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Title: The Champions
Character: Banner B. Banner
Released: September 25, 1968
Type: TV
The Champions is a British espionage/science fiction/occult detective fiction adventure series consisting of 30 episodes broadcast on the UK network ITV during 1968–1969, produced by Lew Grade's ITC Entertainment production company. The series was broadcast in the US on NBC, starting in summer 1968.
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Faithful Departed
Title: Faithful Departed
Character: narrator
Released: July 2, 1968
Type: Movie
This short documentary draws on the photographs of Robert French from the William Lawrence Collection held in the National Library. The photos illustrate the Dublin of 1904 which served as a backdrop to James Joyce’s Ulysses. The film traces Joyce’s childhood and adolescence, his meeting with Nora Barnacle on June 10th, 1904, and the highways and byways which Leopold Bloom wandered through on June 16th, 1904. The music in the film references some of Joyce’s favourite songs, many of which appear in Ulysses.
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Wonderwall
Title: Wonderwall
Character: Prof. Oscar Collins
Released: May 17, 1968
Type: Movie
The eccentric professor Collins lives completely secluded in his chaotic apartment. When the model Penny moves in next to him, he becomes fascinated by her. He drills holes in her walls and ceiling and peeps on her day and night. He loses himself in daydreams and delusions.
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The Fearless Vampire Killers
Title: The Fearless Vampire Killers
Character: Professor Abronsius
Released: November 13, 1967
Type: Movie
A noted professor and his dim-witted apprentice fall prey to their inquiring vampires, while on the trail of the ominous damsel in distress.
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How I Won the War
Title: How I Won the War
Character: Juniper
Released: October 18, 1967
Type: Movie
An inept British WWII commander leads his troops to a series of misadventures in North Africa and Europe.
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The Inn Way Out
Title: The Inn Way Out
Character: Irish Poet
Released: February 1, 1967
Type: Movie
A man encounters all sorts of strange places and people when he goes out for cigarettes.
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Eh, Joe?
Title: Eh, Joe?
Character: Joe
Released: July 4, 1966
Type: Movie
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 Joe and Siân Phillips as Voice. Directed by Alan Schneider with Beckett's supervision.
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Cul-de-sac
Title: Cul-de-sac
Character: Albie
Released: June 17, 1966
Type: Movie
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 hosts, quickly experience their relationship with the criminal shift in a humorous and bizarre fashion.
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The Stable Door
Title: The Stable Door
Released: June 1, 1966
Type: Movie
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 a vulnerable target by an insurance salesman who suggests precautions, including buying insurance. Will the works be done in time and sufficient to stop the robbers?
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Silent Song
Title: Silent Song
Character: Brother Michael
Released: February 2, 1966
Type: Movie
Life in a Trappist monastery offers a life of contemplation and hard labour.
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Doctor Zhivago
Title: Doctor Zhivago
Character: Petya
Released: December 22, 1965
Type: Movie
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 during World War I and then the October Revolution.
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Title: Gideon's Way
Character: 'Happy' Roden
Released: March 18, 1965
Type: TV
Gideon's Way is a British television crime series made by ITC Entertainment in 1964/65, based on the novels by John Creasey. The series was made at Elstree in twin production with The Saint TV series. It starred Liverpudlian John Gregson in the title role as Commander George Gideon of Scotland Yard, with Alexander Davion as his assistant, Detective Chief Inspector David Keen, Reginald Jessup as Det. Superintendent LeMaitre, Ian Rossiter as Detective Chief Superintendent Joe Bell and Basil Dignam as Commissioner Scott-Marle. The show did not acknowledge any help from Scotland Yard, any other police force or advisor. Daphne Anderson starred as his wife, Kate with Giles Watling as young son, Malcolm, Richard James as older son, Matthew who seemed to have a lot of new girlfriends and Andrea Allan as daughter, Pru. Unusually for police stories, Gideon was shown as a family man at home though urgent phone calls from his bosses tend to disrupt family plans too often. However, he did admit in "State Visit" that his wife had walked out on him for a while years ago when he put the job first and her second. They live in an expensive detached house in Chelsea.
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Young Cassidy
Title: Young Cassidy
Character: Archie
Released: February 25, 1965
Type: Movie
In Dublin circa 1911, John Cassidy (Rod Taylor), an impoverished idealist, whose ambitions are restricted by the demands of looking after his family, journeys through the social injustices of Dublin life, involving himself with the rowdy tramway-men strike, dawdling with prostitute Daisy Battles (Julie Christie), and seeking a better life. He falls in love with bookshop assistant Nora (Dame Maggie Smith) who encourages him toward a life of writing. Finding success at the Abbey Theatre, his unorthodox views estrange him from family, friends, and his own past.
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Lord Jim
Title: Lord Jim
Character: Robinson
Released: February 15, 1965
Type: Movie
After being discredited as a coward, a 19th century seaman lives for only one purpose: to redeem himself.
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Beginning to End
Title: Beginning to End
Character: Man
Released: January 1, 1965
Type: Movie
A recital of passages from the works of Samuel Beckett, performed by Jack MacGowran, as a raving old man.
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The Ceremony
Title: The Ceremony
Character: O'Brian
Released: December 18, 1963
Type: Movie
A man has an affair with his condemned brother's girlfriend while plotting his escape in Tangier.
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Tom Jones
Title: Tom Jones
Character: Partridge
Released: August 24, 1963
Type: Movie
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?
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Title: Zero One
Released: October 3, 1962
Type: TV
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The Brain
Title: The Brain
Character: Furber
Released: September 5, 1962
Type: Movie
A millionaire businessman's brain is kept alive after a fatal accident, and communicates clues to a doctor on the trail of the killer
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Mix Me a Person
Title: Mix Me a Person
Character: Terence
Released: August 31, 1962
Type: Movie
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 out to prove she is right.
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Captain Clegg
Title: Captain Clegg
Character: Frightened Man
Released: June 13, 1962
Type: Movie
A captain and his sailors investigate the rampaging "Marsh Phantoms" terrorizing a coastal town, but their search is hindered by a local reverend and a horrifying curse.
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Two and Two Make Six
Title: Two and Two Make Six
Character: Night Porter
Released: May 1, 1962
Type: Movie
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 couple that looks like them and a mix up happens.
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Title: The Avengers
Character: Professor Poole
Released: January 7, 1961
Type: TV
The Avengers is a British television series created in the 1960s. It initially focused on Dr. David Keel and his assistant John Steed. Hendry left after the first series and Steed became the main character, partnered with a succession of assistants. His most famous assistants were intelligent, stylish and assertive women: Cathy Gale, Emma Peel and Tara King. Later episodes increasingly incorporated elements of science fiction and fantasy, parody and British eccentricity.
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Blind Date
Title: Blind Date
Character: Postman
Released: August 1, 1959
Type: Movie
Dutch painter Jan-Van Rooyer hurries to keep a rendezvous with Jacqueline Cousteau, an elegant, sophisticated Frenchwoman, slightly his elder, whose relationship with him had turned from art student into one of love trysts. He arrives and is confronted by Detective Police Inspector Morgan who accuses him of having murdered Jacqueline. Morgan listens sceptically to the dazed denials of Van Rooyer as he tells the story of his relationship with the murdered woman. Morgan, after hearing the story, realizes that the mystery has deepened, and it becomes more complicated when the Assistant Commissioner, Sir Brian Lewis, explains that Jacqueline was not married but was being kept by Sir Howard Fenton, a high-ranking diplomat whose names must be kept out of the case.
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Darby O'Gill and the Little People
Title: Darby O'Gill and the Little People
Character: Phadrig Oge
Released: June 24, 1959
Type: Movie
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 as caretaker.
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I Captured the King of the Leprechauns
Title: I Captured the King of the Leprechauns
Character: Phadrig Oge
Released: May 29, 1959
Type: Movie
Behind the scenes of Darby O'Gill and the Little People.
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The Giant Behemoth
Title: The Giant Behemoth
Character: Dr. Sampson, the paleontologist
Released: March 3, 1959
Type: Movie
Marine atomic tests cause changes in the ocean's ecosystem resulting in dangerous blobs of radiation and the resurrection of a dormant dinosaur which threatens London.
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She Didn't Say No!
Title: She Didn't Say No!
Character: William Bates
Released: September 30, 1958
Type: Movie
Bridget Monaghan, a single mother who has had six children by different fathers, shocks the conservative inhabitants of an Irish village.
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Rooney
Title: Rooney
Character: Joe O'Connor
Released: March 24, 1958
Type: Movie
The life of James Ignatius Rooney, a Dublin rubbish collector during the week and a Gaelic sportsman at the weekends.
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The Rising of the Moon
Title: The Rising of the Moon
Character: Mickey J., The Poitín Maker (segment 'The Majesty of the Law')
Released: August 10, 1957
Type: Movie
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 an old-fashioned, traditional fellow for assault. The man's principles have the policeman and the whole village, including the man he slugged, sympathizing with him. "One Minute's Wait" is about a little train station and glimpses into the lives of the passengers, with a series of comic setups. The third piece, "1921," is about a condemned Irish nationalist and his daring escape.
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Manuela
Title: Manuela
Character: Tommy
Released: July 18, 1957
Type: Movie
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 he’s sick to death of carting goods back and forth across the world. Then he meets Manuela, a beautiful native girl smuggled on board by one of his crew, and comes to realise that she, too, is a lost soul. Gradually a love affair develops between them, and Prothero becomes dangerously blind to the responsibilities of his position.
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Jacqueline
Title: Jacqueline
Character: Campbell
Released: June 4, 1956
Type: Movie
Jacqueline is the daughter of Belfast shipyard worker Mike McNeil. The worker's worth is compromised by his crippling fear of heights. Dismissed from his job, he finds solace in the bottle. All seems hopeless until Jacqueline breaks through her father's self-imposed gloom and helps him to regenerate. An adaptation of the novel 'A Grand Man', by Catherine Cookson.
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The Titfield Thunderbolt
Title: The Titfield Thunderbolt
Character: Vernon Crump
Released: March 4, 1953
Type: Movie
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, backed by a monied member of the community who is attracted by the complete lack of licensing hours on trains. Unfortunately the local bus company starts to use methods that can hardly be seen as fair competition.
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The Titfield Thunderbolt
Title: The Titfield Thunderbolt
Character: Vernon Crump (as Jack McGowran)
Released: March 4, 1953
Type: Movie
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, backed by a monied member of the community who is attracted by the complete lack of licensing hours on trains. Unfortunately the local bus company starts to use methods that can hardly be seen as fair competition.
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Time Bomb
Title: Time Bomb
Released: February 5, 1953
Type: Movie
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, unaware that he has explosive problems of his own.
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The Gentle Gunman
Title: The Gentle Gunman
Character: Patsy McGuire
Released: October 23, 1952
Type: Movie
The relationship between brothers Terry and Matt, both active in the IRA, comes under strain when Terry begins to question the use of violence.
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The Quiet Man
Title: The Quiet Man
Character: Ignatius Feeney
Released: July 21, 1952
Type: Movie
An American man returns to the village of his birth in Ireland, where he finds love and conflict.
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No Resting Place
Title: No Resting Place
Character: Billy Kyle
Released: January 12, 1951
Type: Movie
The brilliant British documentary filmmaker Paul Rotha made his feature-film debut with 1950's No Resting Place. Filmed on location in Ireland, the film is a lightly fictionalized study of that country's itinerant workmen. Michael Gough plays tinker Alec Kyle, whose life is thrown into turmoil when he accidentally kills a man. Kyle spends the rest of the film evading Guard Mannigan (Noel Purcell), a civil servant who relies on instinct rather than scientific deduction to get his man. Without ever trying to elicit sympathy for his characters, director Rotha manages to compellingly detail the miserable living and working conditions of Ireland's nomad artisans.