Godfrey Quigley (4 May 1923 – 7 September 1994) was an Irish film, television and stage actor. He appeared in

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's films '' A Clockwork Orange'' and ''

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''.

Biography

Quigley was born in

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Mandatory Palestine Mandatory Palestine ( ar, فلسطين الانتدابية '; he, פָּלֶשְׂתִּינָה (א״י) ', where "E.Y." indicates ''’Eretz Yiśrā’ēl'', the Land of Israel) was a geopolitical entity established between 1920 and 1948 i ...

, where his father was serving as an officer in the

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.''The Irish Times'', "Actor Godfrey Quigley Dies in Dublin Aged 71", 8 September 1994. The family returned to

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in the 1930s and, following military service in the

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, 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

films: first as the prison chaplain in '' A Clockwork Orange'' (1971), and then as Captain Grogan in ''

'' (1975). In British television, he played a has-been gangster in the serial ''

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'' (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,

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. The company was disestablished in 1960. During the same period, he produced the radio

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'' The Kennedys of Castleross''. In 1983 Quigley appeared in the film ''

Educating Rita ''Educating Rita'' is a stage comedy by British playwright Willy Russell. It is a play for two actors set entirely in the office of an Open University tutor. Commissioned by the Royal Shakespeare Company, ''Educating Rita'' premièred at The ...

''.

Death

Quigley died in

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of Alzheimer's disease, aged 71.

Filmography

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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Quigley, Godfrey 1923 births 1994 deaths 20th-century Irish male actors Deaths from Alzheimer's disease Deaths from dementia in the Republic of Ireland Irish male film actors Irish radio producers Irish male stage actors Irish male television actors Irish theatre directors Irish male voice actors Irish expatriates in Mandatory Palestine