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.
Biography
Quigley was born in Jerusalem, Mandatory Palestine, where his father was serving as an officer in the British Army.The Irish Times, "Actor Godfrey Quigley Dies in Dublin Aged 71", 8 September 1994. 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,The Irish Times, "Godfrey Quigley: The Art of Being Different", 21 May 1988. 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.
Death
Quigley died in Dublin of Alzheimer's disease, aged 71.
Filmography Year Title Role Notes1949 Saints and Sinners Colin Uncredited1957 The Rising of the Moon Christy Donigan 1958 Rooney Tom Reilly 1959 Broth of a Boy Desmond Phillips 1960 The Siege of Sidney Street Blakey 1962 Dead Man's Evidence Supt. O'Brien 1964 Nothing But the Best Coates 1964 The Counterfeit Constable Inspector Savory 1966 Daleks' Invasion Earth 2150 A.D. Dortmun 1969 Guns in the Heather Meister 1969 The Reckoning Dr. Carolan 1971 Get Carter Eddie Appleyard 1971 A Clockwork Orange Prison Chaplain 1973 Conflict Father Walter 1975 Barry Lyndon Captain Grogan 1977 The Man in the Iron Mask Baisemeaux 1983 Educating Rita Rita's father 1989 All Dogs Go to Heaven Terrier Voice (final film role)
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