Jimmy Mageean
Actor · 1891 – 1972 · Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
Jimmy Mageean was an American theatrical and film actor. Born in Massachusetts, he worked as an actor in the US, Canada, and England. He served in the Royal Irish Rifles in the First World War, and settled in Belfast after the war ended. There, he became a leading figure in the city's theatre scene, alongside his close friend Richard Hayward. With Hayward, he moved towards cinema, and became a star of low-budget 'Quota Quickies'. He later returned to America, and died in San Diego in 1972.
Movies7
Movie10.0ComedyMy Wife's Family
1956 · 1 votes
Movie5.5ComedyThe whole village mourns when General O'Leary, owner of a hunting estate in South Ireland, is killed in an accident. His nephew, Jasper O'Leary, takes over the state and soon has aroused the displeasure of all, with the exception of Serena McGluskey, as much a schemer as he is a cad. Led by Thady O'Heggarty, the villagers plot to drive Jasper away. They use the occasion of "O'Leary Night", when the ghost of the first O'Leary walks the halls, to create general chaos.
Happy Ever After
1954 · 16 votes
Movie6.2CrimeA landslide traps a group of actors in a small theatre in Wales. The cashier is killed, who will be next?
Landslide
1937 · 4 votes
- Movie8.0CrimeDrama
An Irish-born businessman based in London is kidnapped by colleagues as a joke and flown back to the small village of his birth. There he finds that American gangsters are forcing the local publicans to buy illegally-produced raw spirit with which to adulterate branded products.
Irish and Proud of It
1936 · 1 votes
Movie9.0'The story of an Irishman's attempts to save his ancestral home through the fortunes of his racehorse.' (Northern Ireland Screen Digital Film Archive)
The Luck of the Irish
1935 · 1 votes
Movie7.5ComedyA puritanical woman tries to enforce her rigid views on her Irish home village, Ballytober. She forms the wholesome Uplift League in the village in an attempt to persuade people to reform and accept higher moral standards.
The Early Bird
1936 · 2 votes
- Movie8.0Drama
Released in the US in 1940 while a drive was being staged in Ireland to stop the smuggling of munitions across the Ulster border. The story involves a family, the Muldoons, living in a village on the Ulster border. Pamela Wood, the daughter, is being romanced (and romancing back) border-guard Lian Gaffney. A damper is dumped on the romance when her brother, Max Adrian, is recognized as one of the rebels. He is caught by the guards, but manages to escape after saving the life of Gaffney.
Macushla
1937 · 1 votes