Godfrey Quigley
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| Godfrey Quigley | |
|---|---|
| Born | May 4, 1923 Jerusalem, Palestine |
| Died | September 7, 1994 Dublin, Ireland |
Godfrey Quigley (May 4, 1923 – September 7, 1994) was an Irish stage, film and television actor.
Quigley was born in Jerusalem where his father served as an officer in the British Army.[1] The family returned to Ireland in the 1930s and, following service in World War II, Quigley began his training as an actor at the Abbey School of Acting.[1]
In the 1950s, Quigley co-founded the Globe Theatre Company, which had its base in Dun Laoghaire.[2] The company closed in 1960.[1]. During the same period he produced the popular radio soap opera, The Kennedys of Castleross.[2]
In 1949, Quigley made his first film appearance in the film Saints and Sinners. He appeared in two Stanley Kubrick films. First as the moral prison chaplain in the 1971 film A Clockwaork Orange. Then he played was as Captain Grogan in the 1975 film Barry Lyndon. On British television, amongst many smaller appearances, he was a has-been gangster in Big Breadwinner Hog (1969).
Quigley's theatre roles include the Irishman in Tom Murphy's The Gigli Concert, for which he won the Harvey's Best Actor award in 1984.[2]
Godfrey Quigley died in Dublin of Alzheimer's disease at the age of 71.[1]
[edit] Selected filmography
- Rooney (1958) as Tom Reilly
- Nothing But the Best (1964) as Coates
- Get Carter (1971) as Eddie
- A Clockwork Orange (1971) as a prison chaplain
- Barry Lyndon (1975) as Captain Grogan
- Educating Rita (1983) as Rita's dad
[edit] References
- ^ a b c d The Irish Times, "Actor Godfrey Quigley dies in Dublin aged 71", September 8, 1994
- ^ a b c The Irish Times, "Godfrey Quigley: the art of being different", May 21, 1988
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