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Niall MacGinnis


Niall MacGinnis Biography

Niall MacGinnis (29 March 1913 - 6 January 1977) was an Irish actor who made 80 screen appearances.

Early life

MacGinnis was born in Dublin in 1913. He was educated at Stonyhurst College in England, and studied medicine at Dublin University. He qualified as a house surgeon. During the Second World War, MacGinnis served as surgeon in the Royal Navy.

Film career

MacGinnis played a German sailor in the British war film 49th Parallel (1941) with Laurence Olivier, Leslie Howard, Eric Portman and Raymond Massey. He portrayed Captain MacMorris in Olivier's version of Henry V (1944) and the title character in the film Martin Luther (1953). He played the villainous Julian Karswell opposite American actor Dana Andrews in the British horror film Night of the Demon (1957, released in the United States as Curse of the Demon). He also played Zeus opposite Honor Blackman's Hera in Jason and the Argonauts (1963), played the arch-criminal A. J. Kent in an episode of Danger Man entitled "Battle of The Cameras" (1965); and had a supporting role in John Huston's film The Kremlin Letter (1969).

Later life

MacGinnis returned to medical practice during the 1970s. He died of cancer in Haverfordwest, Wales in 1977, aged 63.

Partial filmography

  • Turn of the Tide (1935)
  • Debt of Honour (1936)
  • The Crimson Circle (1936)
  • The Edge of the World (1937)
  • The Last Adventurers (1937)
  • 49th Parallel (1941)
  • The Day Will Dawn (1942)
  • We Dive at Dawn (1943)
  • Undercover (1943)
  • The Hundred Pound Window (1944)
  • Tawny Pipit (1944)
  • Henry V (1944)
  • Captain Boycott (1947)
  • No Room at the Inn (1948)
  • Anna Karenina (1948)
  • Hamlet (1948)
  • Christopher Columbus (1949)
  • Diamond City (1949)
  • Chance of a Lifetime (1950)
  • Murder in the Cathedral (1951)
  • Talk of a Million (1951)
  • Martin Luther (1953)
  • Knights of the Round Table (1953)
  • Betrayed (1954)
  • Conflict of Wings (1954)
  • Helen of Troy (1956)
  • Alexander the Great (1956)
  • Lust for Life (1956)
  • The Shiralee (1957)
  • Night of the Demon (1957)
  • Behind the Mask (1958)
  • This Other Eden (1959)
  • The Nun's Story (1959)
  • Shake Hands with the Devil (1959)
  • Tarzan's Greatest Adventure (1959)
  • Kidnapped (1960)
  • Never Take Sweets from a Stranger (1960)
  • A Terrible Beauty (1960)
  • Sword of Sherwood Forest (1960)
  • Foxhole in Cairo (1960)
  • Billy Budd (1962)
  • The Playboy of the Western World (1962)
  • Face in the Rain (1963)
  • Jason and the Argonauts (1963)
  • The Truth About Spring (1964)
  • Becket (1964)
  • The War Lord (1965)
  • The Spy Who Came in from the Cold (1965)
  • A Man Could Get Killed (1966)
  • Island of Terror (1966)
  • The Viking Queen (1967)
  • Torture Garden (1967)
  • The Shoes of the Fisherman (1968)
  • Sinful Davey (1969)
  • Krakatoa, East of Java (1969)
  • The Kremlin Letter (1970)
  • The Mackintosh Man (1973)



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