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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.
Total trailers found: 42
26 December 1973
When a mysterious entity possesses a young girl, her mother seeks the help of two Catholic priests to save her life.
01 February 1967
A man encounters all sorts of strange places and people when he goes out for cigarettes.
25 February 1965
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.
04 June 1956
Jacqueline is the daughter of Belfast shipyard worker Mike McNeil. The worker's worth is compromised by his crippling fear of heights.
10 July 1970
King Lear is a proud man who solicits praise from his three daughters in return for inheritance of the kingdom.
01 June 1966
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.
22 December 1965
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.
05 September 1962
After the mysterious crash of a millionaire's private plane, scientists secretly harvest the dying man's brain and keep it alive in a laboratory in order to communicate via telepathy.
18 October 1967
An inept British WWII commander leads his troops to a series of misadventures in North Africa and Europe.
15 February 1965
After being discredited as a coward, a 19th century seaman lives for only one purpose: to redeem himself.
13 May 1969
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.
24 June 1959
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.
21 July 1952
An American man returns to the village of his birth in Ireland, where he finds love and conflict.
01 August 1959
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.
13 November 1967
A noted professor and his dim-witted apprentice fall prey to their inquiring vampires, while on the trail of the ominous damsel in distress.
17 June 1966
On the run and in search of help, two wounded gangsters find refuge in the secluded castle of a feeble man and his wife; however, under the point of a gun, nothing is what it seems.
04 December 1972
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.
24 August 1963
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?
30 September 1958
Bridget Monaghan, a single mother who has had six children by different fathers, shocks the conservative inhabitants of an Irish village.
12 January 1969
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.
03 March 1959
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.
04 March 1953
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.
10 August 1957
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.
13 June 1962
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.
02 February 1966
Life in a Trappist monastery offers a life of contemplation and hard labour.
01 December 1974
An American draft dodger and aspiring writer named Nero Finnigan becomes involved with the notorious Mr.
01 May 1970
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.
04 February 1970
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.
18 July 1957
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.
28 July 1959
A very slight tale based on an original American story by Leon Ware centered on the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco.
01 January 1965
A recital of passages from the works of Samuel Beckett, performed by Jack MacGowran, as a raving old man.
12 January 1951
The brilliant British documentary filmmaker Paul Rotha made his feature-film debut with 1950's No Resting Place.
14 March 1958
The life of James Ignatius Rooney, a Dublin rubbish collector during the week and a Gaelic sportsman at the weekends.
18 December 1963
A man has an affair with his condemned brother's girlfriend while plotting his escape in Tangier.
31 August 1962
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.
05 February 1953
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.
23 October 1952
The relationship between brothers Terry and Matt, both active in the IRA, comes under strain when Terry begins to question the use of violence.
29 May 1959
Behind the scenes of Darby O'Gill and the Little People.
04 July 1966
The first English broadcast of Eh, Joe? aired on BBC2 on July 4th, 1966 with Jack MacGowran, for whom the play was specifically written, playing Joe and Siân Phillips as Voice.
30 September 1968
A skiving bin gang are on high alert when their new inspector takes an interest.
02 July 1968
This short documentary draws on the photographs of Robert French from the William Lawrence Collection held in the National Library.
01 May 1962
An American airman stationed in the United Kingdom strikes down his commanding officer. Believing he's killed him, the airman goes on the run with a woman.
