| Godfrey Quigley | |
|---|---|
| Born | May 4, 1923 Jerusalem, Palestine |
| Died | September 7, 1994 (aged 71) Dublin, Ireland |
Godfrey Quigley (May 4, 1923 – September 7, 1994) was an Irish stage, film and television actor.
Quigley was born in Jerusalem where his father served as an officer in the British Army.[1] The family returned to Ireland in the 1930s and, following service in World War II, Quigley began his training as an actor at the Abbey School of Acting.[1]
In the 1950s, Quigley co-founded the Globe Theatre Company, which had its base in Dun Laoghaire.[2] The company closed in 1960.[1] During the same period he produced the popular radio soap opera, The Kennedys of Castleross.[2]
In 1949, Quigley made his first film appearance in the film Saints and Sinners. He appeared in two Stanley Kubrick films; first as the moral prison chaplain in the 1971 film A Clockwork Orange, later as Captain Grogan in the 1975 film Barry Lyndon. On British television, amongst many smaller appearances, he was a has-been gangster in Big Breadwinner Hog (1969).
Quigley's theatre roles include the Irishman in Tom Murphy's The Gigli Concert, for which he won the Harvey's Best Actor award in 1984.[2]
Godfrey Quigley died in Dublin of Alzheimer's disease at the age of 71.[1]