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Godfrey Quigley
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. BiographyQuigley was born in Jerusalem, Mandatory Palestine, where his father was serving as an officer in the British Army.[1] 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.[1] In 1949, Quigley made his first film appearance, in Saints and Sinners.[2] 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).[3] In British television, he played a has-been gangster in the serial Big Breadwinner Hog (1969).[4] 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.[5] In the 1950s, Quigley co-founded the Globe Theatre Company,[5] whose members included his wife, Genevieve Lyons. The company was disestablished in 1960.[1] During the same period, he produced the radio soap opera The Kennedys of Castleross.[5] In 1983 Quigley appeared in the film Educating Rita.[3] DeathQuigley died in Dublin of Alzheimer's disease, aged 71.[6][7] Filmography
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