J. Warren Kerrigan | |
|---|---|
 Kerrigan c. 1918 | |
| Born | George Jack Warren Kerrigan July 28, 1879 Louisville, Kentucky, U.S. |
| Died | June 9, 1947 (aged 67) Balboa Beach, California, U.S. |
| Burial place | Forest Lawn Memorial Park |
| Other names | Jack Kerrigan |
| Occupation(s) | Actor, director |
| Years active | 1910–1924 |
| Partner | James Carroll Vincent (c. 1914–1947; his death) |
George Jack Warren Kerrigan (July 25, 1879 – June 9, 1947) was an American silent film actor and film director.[ citation needed ]
In May 1917, Kerrigan was nearing the end of a four-month-long personal appearance publicity tour that had taken him across the United States and into Canada. At one of the final stops, a reporter for The Denver Times asked Kerrigan if he would be joining the war. Kerrigan replied:
I am not going to war. I will go, of course, if my country needs me, but I think that first they should take the great mass of men who aren't good for anything else, or are only good for the lower grades of work. Actors, musicians, great writers, artists of every kind—isn't it a pity when people are sacrificed who are capable of such things—of adding to the beauty of the world.
Picked up and reprinted in newspapers across the country, this statement stunned his fans and his popularity plummeted, never to fully recover.[ citation needed ]
Family members later claimed in Behind the Screen (2001) by William J. Mann that his slump in popularity was more due to his living with his mother and partner James Vincent in the same house, and not having a business manager to overcome the negative publicity.[ citation needed ]
In the spring of 1924, after John Barrymore bowed out, Kerrigan was assigned the starring role in Captain Blood . While the film was a moderate success, critics were unmoved and Kerrigan found himself working less and less and in smaller roles. In December 1924, Kerrigan was injured in an automobile accident in Illinois. According to the Des Moines Tribune (page 1, Monday, December 8, 1924) his face was badly scarred and it was stated that "he may never star in films again". [1]
Kerrigan lived with his domestic partner James Carroll Vincent from about 1914 until Kerrigan's death in 1947.[ citation needed ]
James Carroll Vincent (November 9, 1897 – May 15, 1948) was a silent movie actor. He was born in Baltimore, Maryland, and moved to California to be an actor where he met Kerrigan. Vincent moved into Kerrigan's home at 2307 Cahuenga Boulevard in Los Angeles, where they began a long-term relationship. He was listed at various times as Kerrigan's secretary or gardener. [2] Not to be confused with actor James Vincent, born in 1882 and only three years younger than Kerrigan, while his partner is described as being much younger than Kerrigan; [3] or stage manager James Vincent (who worked with Katharine Cornell and was long-time friend of George Cukor), born in 1900 who committed suicide in 1953 in New York City. [4]
In 1919 Vincent, who was a "juvenile" actor with Bessie Barriscale, appeared in the cast of Out of Court, [5] in 1920 he was in the cast of The Coast of Opportunity [6] and in 1924 in the cast of $30,000, all three of them movies with or by Kerrigan. [7] In 1924, Kerrigan and Vincent, along with several of their friends, were in an automobile accident in Dixon, Illinois, on the route from Sterling to Chicago. In news reports Vincent was again named as Kerrigan's secretary. [8]
On June 9, 1947, Kerrigan died from pneumonia at the age of 67. He is buried at Forest Lawn Memorial Park in Glendale, California. [9]
After Kerrigan's death, Vincent married Mitty Lee Turner (1894–1968) on October 24, 1947. On March 15, 1948, Vincent committed suicide by gas in his bedroom at 14716 Magnolia Boulevard in Van Nuys, California, nine months after the death of Kerrigan. [10] He is buried at Forest Lawn Memorial Park in Glendale, California. [11]
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1913 | Calamity Anne's Inheritance | Williams - the Mining Agent | Short |
| Calamity Anne's Vanity | One of the Village Belle's Sweethearts | Short | |
| Calamity Anne's Beauty | The Handsome Young Drummer | Short | |
| Woman's Honor | Father Bob | Short | |
| Her Big Story | Joel Hammond - the Managing Editor | Short | |
| Quicksands | Frank | Short | |
| Truth in the Wilderness | Bruce Willard | Short | |
| For the Flag | Lieutenant Jack Bronson | Short | |
| For the Crown | Jacques le Grand | Short | |
| Calamity Anne, Heroine | Minor Role | Short | |
| The Restless Spirit | The Husband - the Restless Spirit | Short | |
| The Girl and the Greaser | Dave Lewis | Short | |
| The Tale of the Ticker | Tom Burns | Short | |
| Back to Life | Destiny's Victim | Short | |
| Rory o' the Bogs | Rory o' the Bogs | Short | |
| 1914 | Samson | Samson | |
| 1915 | The Stool Pigeon | Walter Jason | Short |
| For Cash | Arthen Owen | Short | |
| The Oyster Dredger | Jack, the Oyster Dredger | Short | |
| The New Adventures of Terence O'Rourke | Terence O'Rourke | ||
| 1916 | Langdon's Legacy | Langdon | |
| The Pool of Flame | Terence O'Rourke | ||
| The Gay Lord Waring | Lord Arthur Waring | ||
| A Son of the Immortals | Prince Alexis Delgrade | ||
| The Silent Battle | Tom Gallatin | ||
| The Beckoning Trail | Carter Raymond | ||
| The Social Buccaneer | Chattfield Bruce | ||
| The Measure of a Man | John Fairmeadow | ||
| 1917 | A Man's Man | John Stuart Webster | |
| 1918 | The Turn of a Card | Jimmie Montgomery Farrell | |
| One Dollar Bid | Toby | ||
| A Burglar for a Night | Kirk Marden | ||
| Prisoners of the Pines | Hillaire Latour | ||
| Three X Gordon | Harold Gordon | ||
| 1919 | The Drifters | Burke Marston | |
| Come Again Smith | Joe Smith | ||
| The End of the Game | Burke Allister | ||
| The Best Man | Cyril Gordon | ||
| A White Man's Chance | Donald Joseph Blenhorn | ||
| The Lord Loves the Irish | Miles Machree | ||
| The Joyous Liar | Burke Harlan | ||
| 1920 | Live Sparks | Neil Sparks | |
| The Dream Cheater | Brandon McShane | ||
| A Man's Man | John Stuart Webster | ||
| Number 99 | Arthur Penryn | ||
| The Green Flame | Frank Markham | ||
| $30,000 | John Trask | ||
| The House of Whispers | Spaulding Nelson | [12] | |
| The Coast of Opportunity | Dick Bristow | ||
| 1922 | Night Life in Hollywood | Himself | Cameo |
| 1923 | The Covered Wagon | Will Banion | |
| The Girl of the Golden West | Ramerrez | ||
| Mary of the Movies | Himself | Cameo, Uncredited | |
| Hollywood | Himself | Cameo | |
| The Man from Brodney's | Hollingsworth Chase | ||
| Thundering Dawn | Jack Standish | ||
| 1924 | Captain Blood | Captain Peter Blood | (final film role) |
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