Jack Macgowran

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Also Known As

Jack Mcgowran

Birth Place

Dublin, IE

Born

October 13, 1916

Died

January 31, 1973

Cause of Death

Complications From The Flu

Biography

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Veteran character player of film, stage and TV, often in crabby, unsympathetic roles....

Filmography

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Samuel Beckett: Silence to Silence (1987)

The Exorcist (1973)

King Lear (1971)

Start the Revolution Without Me (1970)

Jacques Cabriolet

Age of Consent (1969)

The Fearless Vampire Killers; or, Pardon Me but Your Teeth Are in My Neck (1967)

Professor Abronsius

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Fearless Vampire Killers, The (1967) -- (Movie Clip) Opening,That Night

Fearless Vampire Killers, The (1967) -- (Movie Clip) Garlic, My Boy, Garlic!

Biography

Veteran character player of film, stage and TV, often in crabby, unsympathetic roles.

Filmography

Cast (Feature Film)

Samuel Beckett: Silence to Silence (1987)

The Exorcist (1973)

King Lear (1971)

Start the Revolution Without Me (1970)

Jacques Cabriolet

Age of Consent (1969)

The Fearless Vampire Killers; or, Pardon Me but Your Teeth Are in My Neck (1967)

Professor Abronsius

How I Won the War (1967)

Cul-de-Sac (1966)

Lord Jim (1965)

Young Cassidy (1965)

Doctor Zhivago (1965)

The Brain (1964)

The Ceremony (1963)

Tom Jones (1963)

Night Creatures (1962)

She Didn't Say No! (1962)

Two and Two Make Six (1962)

Darby O'Gill and the Little People (1959)

Stowaway Girl (1957)

Jacqueline (1956)

The Quiet Man (1952)

Life Events

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The Fearless Vampire Killers - Roman Polanski Sketches

Here are a few sketches by Roman Polanski, drawn for his film The Fearless Vampire Killers or: Pardon Me, but Your Teeth are in my Neck (1967), released by MGM.

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Fearless Vampire Killers, The (1967) -- (Movie Clip) Opening,That Night Clever title sequence and first shots from The Fearless Vampire Killers; or, Pardon Me but Your Teeth Are in My Neck, 1967, absent that studio generated sub-title, starring director Roman Polanski, Sharon Tate and Jack MacGowran.

Fearless Vampire Killers, The (1967) -- (Movie Clip) Garlic, My Boy, Garlic! Professor Abronsius (Jack MacGowran) is frozen solid on arrival at a Transylvanian Inn, but is aroused along with aide Alfred (Director Roman Polanski) when they see tell-tale signs, in The Fearless Vampire Killers, 1967.

Rising Of The Moon, The (1957) -- (Movie Clip) We'll Not Be Needin' The Cork Inspector Dillon (Cyril Cusack) with Dan (Noel Purcell) whom he doesn't want to arrest, moonshiner Mickey (Jack MacGowran) glad he's not the target, in the first segment of John Ford's Irish pastoral The Rising Of The Moon, 1957.

Tom Jones (1963) -- (Movie Clip) Stand and Deliver! Failing at first to rob Miss Western (Edith Evans), Partridge (Jack MacGowran) settles on Tom (Albert Finney) and gets lucky in Tony Richardson's Tom Jones, 1963.

Start The Revolution Without Me (1970) -- (Movie Clip) How Many Pillows Did We Get? Director Bud Yorkin with a gag in which the text and narration was run twice, to the first scene for now grown-up switched-twin brothers, the peasant pair, Claude and Charles (Gene Wilder, Donald Sutherland), running afoul of their compromised French Revolution boss Jacques (Jack MacGowran), in Start The Revolution Without Me, 1970.

Fearless Vampire Killers, The (1967) -- (Movie Clip) You've Seen My Dress? Director Roman Polanski featuring himself (as "Alfred") in several complex shots, as he discovers Sarah (Sharon Tate) and the frozen-again Professor Abronsius (Jack MacGowran) in The Fearless Vampire Killers, 1967.

Fearless Vampire Killers, The (1967) -- (Movie Clip) Several Analagous Cases Director Roman Polanski (as "Alfred"), along with Profesor Abronsius (Jack MacGowran), "vamping" in their first formal meeting with the Jewish Count von Krolock (Ferdy Mayne) in The Fearless Vampire Killers, 1967.

Fearless Vampire Killers, The (1967) -- (Movie Clip) A Quick One... Timid Alfred (Director Roman Polanski) is sorting through his tools when Sarah (Sharon Tate) sets his mind reeling with what he believes must be a proposition, in The Fearless Vampire Killers, 1967.

Fearless Vampire Killers, The (1967) -- (Movie Clip) Give Her Back To Me! Famous sequence in which Sarah (Sharon Tate) is abducted in spectacular fashion by von Krolock (Ferdy Mayne) while Alfred (director Roman Polanski) and Professor Abronsius (Jack MacGowran) panic in The Fearless Vampire Killers, 1967.

How I Won The War -- (Movie Clip) My First Command In training, Transom (Lee Montague) drilling the troop (Ronald Lacey, John Lennon et al), Col. Grapple (reciting), then Goodbody (Michael Crawford) counseling Clapper (Roy Kinnear), in Richard Lester's How I Won The War, 1967.

How I Won The War -- (Movie Clip) Noblest Of Games Early narration by Lt. Goodbody (Michael Crawford), introducing Transom (Lee Monntague), Juniper (Jack MacGowran), Gripweed (Beatle John Lennon) then Col. Grapple (Michael Hordern) in Richard Lester's How I Won The War, 1967.

Start the Revolution Without Me - (Original Trailer) Orson Welles introduces the trailer for the Gene Wilder - Donald Sutherland historical farce Start the Revolution Without Me (1970).

Young Cassidy - (Original Trailer) Rod Taylor stars in the true story of Irish playwright Sean O'Casey, Young Cassidy (1965), directed by John Ford and Jack Cardiff, also starring Julie Christie, and Maggie Smith.

Fearless Vampire Killers, The - (Original Trailer) A bumbling professor tracks vampires in the wilds of Eastern Europe in Roman Polanski's horror-comedy The Fearless Vampire Killers (1967).

Young Cassidy - (Original Movie Promo) A look behind the scenes of the making of the Jack Cardiff - John Ford movie Young Cassidy (1965).

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