Jack MacGowran

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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Known For

The Avengers

1961 • as Professor Poole

The Champions

1968 • as Banner B. Banner

The Exorcist

1973 • as Burke Dennings

Doctor Zhivago

1965 • as Petya

Gideon's Way

1965 • as 'Happy' Roden

Banacek

1972 • as Michele Lanier

Filmography

2023

Leap of Faith: William Friedkin on The Exorcist

as Self (archive footage)

Movie - Released: 10/5/2023

1973

The Exorcist

as Burke Dennings

Movie - Released: 12/26/1973

1972

The Shadow of a Gunman

as Seumas Shields

Movie - Released: 12/4/1972

Banacek

as Michele Lanier

TV - Released: 9/13/1972

1970

Start the Revolution Without Me

as Jacques

Movie - Released: 2/4/1970

The Yin and the Yang of Mr. Go

as Leo Zimmerman

Movie - Released: 1/1/1970

King Lear

as Fool

Movie - Released: 7/10/1970

A Day at the Beach

as Collector

Movie - Released: 5/1/1970

1969

Age of Consent

as Nat Kelly

Movie - Released: 5/13/1969

1968

Wonderwall

as Prof. Oscar Collins

Movie - Released: 5/17/1968

There's a Hole in Your Dustbin, Delilah

as 'Cheese and Egg' C.E. Petty

Movie - Released: 9/30/1968

Faithful Departed

as narrator

Movie - Released: 7/2/1968

The Champions

as Banner B. Banner

TV - Released: 9/25/1968

1967

The Fearless Vampire Killers

as Professor Abronsius

Movie - Released: 11/13/1967

The Inn Way Out

as Irish Poet

Movie - Released: 2/1/1967

How I Won the War

as Juniper

Movie - Released: 10/18/1967

1966

Cul-de-sac

as Albie

Movie - Released: 6/17/1966

Silent Song

as Brother Michael

Movie - Released: 2/2/1966

Eh, Joe?

as Joe

Movie - Released: 7/4/1966

The Stable Door

Movie - Released: 6/1/1966

1965

Doctor Zhivago

as Petya

Movie - Released: 12/22/1965

Beginning to End

as Man

Movie - Released: 1/1/1965

Young Cassidy

as Archie

Movie - Released: 2/25/1965

Lord Jim

as Robinson

Movie - Released: 2/15/1965

Gideon's Way

as 'Happy' Roden

TV - Released: 3/18/1965

1963

Tom Jones

as Partridge

Movie - Released: 8/24/1963

The Ceremony

as O'Brian

Movie - Released: 12/18/1963

1962

Captain Clegg

as Frightened Man

Movie - Released: 6/13/1962

The Brain

as Furber

Movie - Released: 9/5/1962

Mix Me a Person

as Terence

Movie - Released: 8/31/1962

Two and Two Make Six

as Night Porter

Movie - Released: 5/1/1962

Zero One

TV - Released: 10/3/1962

1961

The Avengers

as Professor Poole

TV - Released: 1/7/1961

1959

The Giant Behemoth

as Dr. Sampson, the paleontologist

Movie - Released: 3/3/1959

Blind Date

as Postman

Movie - Released: 8/1/1959

Darby O'Gill and the Little People

as Phadrig Oge

Movie - Released: 6/24/1959

I Captured the King of the Leprechauns

as Phadrig Oge

Movie - Released: 5/29/1959

Movie

The Boy and the Bridge

as Market Porter

Movie - Released: 7/28/1959

1958

Rooney

as Joe O'Connor

Movie - Released: 3/24/1958

She Didn't Say No!

as William Bates

Movie - Released: 9/30/1958

1957

The Rising of the Moon

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

Movie - Released: 8/10/1957

Manuela

as Tommy

Movie - Released: 7/18/1957

Sailor of Fortune

as Sean, Irish Deck Hand

TV - Released: 5/26/1957

1956

Jacqueline

as Campbell

Movie - Released: 6/4/1956

1953

The Titfield Thunderbolt

as Vernon Crump (as Jack McGowran)

Movie - Released: 3/4/1953

The Titfield Thunderbolt

as Vernon Crump

Movie - Released: 3/4/1953

Time Bomb

Movie - Released: 2/5/1953

1952

The Quiet Man

as Ignatius Feeney

Movie - Released: 7/21/1952

The Gentle Gunman

as Patsy McGuire

Movie - Released: 10/23/1952

1951

No Resting Place

as Billy Kyle

Movie - Released: 1/12/1951

Unknown

Movie

Third Eye

Movie