Biography
Godfrey Quigley (4 May 1923 – 7 September 1994) was an Irish film, television and stage actor. He appeared in Stanley Kubrick's films A Clockwork Orange and Barry Lyndon. Quigley was born in Jerusalem, Mandatory Palestine, where his father was serving as an officer in the British Army. The family returned to Ireland in the 1930s and, following military service in the Second World War, Quigley trained as an actor at the Abbey School of Acting.In 1949, Quigley made his first film appearance, in Saints and Sinners. He appeared in two Stanley Kubrick films: first as the prison chaplain in A Clockwork Orange (1971), and then as Captain Grogan in Barry Lyndon (1975). In British television, he played a has-been gangster in the serial Big Breadwinner Hog (1969). His theatre roles include the Irishman in Tom Murphy's The Gigli Concert, for which he won the Harvey's Best Actor Award in 1984.In the 1950s, Quigley co-founded the Globe Theatre Company, whose members included his wife, Genevieve Lyons. The company was disestablished in 1960. During the same period, he produced the radio soap opera The Kennedys of Castleross.In 1983 Quigley appeared in the film Educating Rita.
Filmography
all 44
Movies 25
TV Shows 19
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All Dogs Go to Heaven (1989)
Die Wächter (1986)
A Life (1984)
Educating Rita (1983)
The Flame Is Love (1979)
Disraeli (1978)
Christmas Morning (1978)
The Man in the Iron Mask (1977)
Bill Brand (1976)
Barry Lyndon (1975)
Silverson (1974)
The Catholics (1973)
Crown Court (1972)
A Clockwork Orange (1971)
Get Carter (1971)
Shadows of Fear (1970)
The Reckoning (1970)
Guns in the Heather (1969)
Son of Man (1969)
The Big Flame (1969)
The Champions (1968)
Man in a Suitcase (1967)
Daleks' Invasion Earth: 2150 A.D. (1966)
Softly, Softly (1966)
Contract to Kill (1965)
Moving On (1965)
Public Eye (1965)
The Counterfeit Constable (1964)
The Wednesday Play (1964)
Nothing But the Best (1964)
The Sentimental Agent (1963)
24-Hour Call (1963)
The Saint (1962)
Dead Man's Evidence (1962)
Out of This World (1962)
Z-Cars (1962)
The Avengers (1961)
The Siege of Sidney Street (1960)
No Hiding Place (1959)
Broth of a Boy (1959)
Rooney (1958)
The Rising of the Moon (1957)
Saints and Sinners (1949)
Big Breadwinner Hog
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GenderMale
Birthday1923-05-04
Deathday1994-09-07 (71 years old)
Birth PlaceJerusalem, Israel
CitizenshipsRepublic of Ireland
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