Jimmy Mageean
Birthday: 1891-09-21
Place of Birth: Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
Biography: Jimmy Mageean was an American theatrical and film actor. Born in Massachusetts, he worked as an actor in the US, Canada, and England. He served in the Royal Irish Rifles in the First World War, and settled in Belfast after the war ended. There, he became a leading figure in the city's theatre scene, alongside his close friend Richard Hayward. With Hayward, he moved towards cinema, and became a star of low-budget 'Quota Quickies'. He later returned to America, and died in San Diego in 1972.
Movies
Happy Ever After
The whole village mourns when General O'Leary, owner of a hunting estate in South Ireland, is killed...
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Irish and Proud of It
An Irish-born businessman based in London is kidnapped by colleagues as a joke and flown back to the...
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Landslide
A landslide traps a group of actors in a small theatre in Wales. The cashier is killed, who will be ...
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Macushla
Released in the US in 1940 while a drive was being staged in Ireland to stop the smuggling of muniti...
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The Early Bird
A puritanical woman tries to enforce her rigid views on her Irish home village, Ballytober. She form...
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The Luck of the Irish
'The story of an Irishman's attempts to save his ancestral home through the fortunes of his racehors...
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