Godfrey Quigley

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 Clockwork Orange, later 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]

Selected filmography

• Rooney (1958) as Tom Reilly
• The Siege of Sidney Street (1960) as Blakey
• 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

References

1. ^ ^{a b c d} The Irish Times, "Actor Godfrey Quigley dies in Dublin aged 71", September 8, 1994
2. ^ ^{a b c} The Irish Times, "Godfrey Quigley: the art of being different", May 21, 1988

External links

• Godfrey Quigley at the Internet Movie Database

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