Jack MacGowran
Birthday: 1918-10-13
Place of Birth: Dublin, Ireland
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.
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Doctor Zhivago
The life of a Russian physician and poet who, although married to another, falls in love with a poli...
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The Fearless Vampire Killers
A noted professor and his dim-witted apprentice fall prey to their inquiring vampires, while on the ...
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The Quiet Man
An American man returns to the village of his birth in Ireland, where he finds love and conflict....
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Cul-de-sac
On the run and in search of help, two wounded gangsters find refuge in the secluded castle of a feeb...
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Tom Jones
Tom loves Sophie and Sophie loves Tom. But Tom and Sophie are of differering classes. Can they find ...
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The Exorcist
When a mysterious entity possesses a young girl, her mother seeks the help of two Catholic priests t...
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The Giant Behemoth
Marine atomic tests cause changes in the ocean's ecosystem resulting in dangerous blobs of radiation...
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Blind Date
Dutch painter Jan-Van Rooyer hurries to keep a rendezvous with Jacqueline Cousteau, an elegant, soph...
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Silent Song
Life in a Trappist monastery offers a life of contemplation and hard labour....
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Wonderwall
The eccentric professor Collins lives completely secluded in his chaotic apartment. When the model P...
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Age of Consent
An elderly artist thinks he has become too stale and is past his prime. His friend (and agent) persu...
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Beginning to End
A recital of passages from the works of Samuel Beckett, performed by Jack MacGowran, as a raving old...
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Eh, Joe?
The first English broadcast of Eh, Joe? which aired on BBC2 on July 4th, 1966 with Jack MacGowran, f...
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Captain Clegg
A captain and his sailors investigate the rampaging "Marsh Phantoms" terrorizing a coastal town, but...
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Start the Revolution Without Me
Two sets of identical twins are accidentally switched at birth. One pair, Phillipe and Pierre DeSisi...
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The Yin and the Yang of Mr. Go
An American draft dodger and aspiring writer named Nero Finnigan becomes involved with the notorious...
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Young Cassidy
In Dublin circa 1911, John Cassidy (Rod Taylor), an impoverished idealist, whose ambitions are restr...
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The Rising of the Moon
Three vignettes of old Irish country life, based on a series of short stories. In "The Majesty of th...
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King Lear
King Lear is a proud man who solicits praise from his three daughters in return for inheritance of t...
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The Gentle Gunman
The relationship between brothers Terry and Matt, both active in the IRA, comes under strain when Te...
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The Titfield Thunderbolt
When British Railways announce the closure of the Titfield to Mallingford branch line a group of loc...
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The Inn Way Out
A man encounters all sorts of strange places and people when he goes out for cigarettes....
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The Shadow of a Gunman
Is a sensitive and mysterious poet really an IRA gunman in hiding? Set in a Dublin tenement in the 1...
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Lord Jim
After being discredited as a coward, a 19th century seaman lives for only one purpose: to redeem him...
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Jacqueline
Jacqueline is the daughter of Belfast shipyard worker Mike McNeil. The worker's worth is compromised...
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Manuela
James Prothero, forty-three years old and up to his ears in alcohol, is the skipper of a tramp ship ...
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The Brain
A millionaire businessman's brain is kept alive after a fatal accident, and communicates clues to a ...
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A Day at the Beach
Bernie is a silver tongued wanderer with a fondness for drink and no clear goal in life. What was su...
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How I Won the War
An inept British WWII commander leads his troops to a series of misadventures in North Africa and Eu...
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The Ceremony
A man has an affair with his condemned brother's girlfriend while plotting his escape in Tangier....
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Rooney
The life of James Ignatius Rooney, a Dublin rubbish collector during the week and a Gaelic sportsman...
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Darby O'Gill and the Little People
A wily old codger matches wits with the King of the Leprechauns and helps play matchmaker for his da...
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Mix Me a Person
Eighteen-year-old Harry Jukes is literally holding a smoking gun in his hand. His lawyer thinks he ...
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The Stable Door
This is a film made as an elaborate advert for the Insurance Industry. A group of criminals conspire...
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I Captured the King of the Leprechauns
Behind the scenes of Darby O'Gill and the Little People....
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There's a Hole in Your Dustbin, Delilah
A skiving bin gang are on high alert when their new inspector takes an interest....
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The Titfield Thunderbolt
When British Railways announce the closure of the Titfield to Mallingford branch line a group of loc...
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No Resting Place
The brilliant British documentary filmmaker Paul Rotha made his feature-film debut with 1950's No Re...
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Time Bomb
When a saboteur places an explosive device on a train full of sea mines, the authorities call for bo...
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Two and Two Make Six
An US airman stationed in the UK strikes down his commanding officer. Believing he killed him, the a...
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She Didn't Say No!
Bridget Monaghan, a single mother who has had six children by different fathers, shocks the conserva...
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Faithful Departed
This short documentary draws on the photographs of Robert French from the William Lawrence Collectio...
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The Boy and the Bridge
A very slight tale based on an original American story by Leon Ware centered on the Golden Gate Brid...
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Third Eye
A CIA operative is the only man who can retrieve the stolen plans of an awesome weapons system and p...
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