Jimmy Mageean

Acting

Jimmy Mageean

Born 1891-09-21 Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA 8 films

Jimmy Mageean was an American theatrical and film actor. Born in Massachusetts, he worked as an actor in the US, Canada, and England. He served in the Royal Irish Rifles in the First World War, and settled in Belfast after the war ended. There, he became a leading figure in the city's theatre scene, alongside his close friend Richard Hayward. With Hayward, he moved towards cinema, and became a star of low-budget 'Quota Quickies'. He later returned to Ameri…

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Filmography

8 films
Landslide poster

A landslide traps a group of actors in a small theatre in Wales. The cashier is killed, who will be…

Landslide

★ 6.3 1937

Macushla poster

Released in the US in 1940 while a drive was being staged in Ireland to stop the smuggling of munit…

Macushla

★ 8.0 1937

The Early Bird poster

A puritanical woman tries to enforce her rigid views on her Irish home village, Ballytober. She for…

The Early Bird

★ 7.5 1936