List of the best Jack MacGowran movies: Wonderwall(1969), The Fearless Vampire Killers or: Pardon Me, but Your Teeth Are in My Neck(1967), Age of Consent(1969), Cul-de-Sac(1966), The Rising of the Moon(1957), Start the Revolution Without Me(1970), How I Won the War(1967), No Resting Place(1951), The Exorcist(1973), The Giant Behemoth(1959), Young Cassidy(1965), The Ceremony(1963) ... ...
Drama
UK
1969
93 Minutes
Professor Oscar Collins
Jack MacGowran Jane Birkin Irene Handl Richard Wattis Iain Quarrier Beatrix Lehmann Brian Walsh Sean Lynch Bee Duffell
professor coworker model photographer maid sexy woman offbeat unrestrained england laboratory apartment fantasy world generation gap culture clash psychedelia unrequited love obsession metamorphosis love 1960s
The eccentric professor Oscar Collins lives completely secluded in his chaotic apartment. When a model (Penny Lane) and her photographer boyfriend move in next to him, he becomes fascinated... See full summary »
Horror
1967
107 Minutes
Jack MacGowran Roman Polanski Sharon Tate Jessie Robins Alfie Bass Ferdinand Mayne Iain Quarrier Terry Downes Fiona Lewis Ronald Lacey Sydney Bromley
vampire professor assistant innkeeper daughter hunchback cheeky playful transylvania inn castle vampires abduction mishaps romance discovery rescue unknown era
A professor (Jack MacGowran) and his helper (Roman Polanski) crash a vampire ball at the castle of Count Von Krolock.
Drama
UK
1969
99 Minutes
Nat Kelly
James Mason Helen Mirren Jack MacGowran Neva Carr-Glyn Frank Thring Andonia Katsaros Michael Boddy Harold Hopkins Slim Da Grey Max Moldrun Dora Hing
young woman artist australian amusing playful engaging australia island art studio art new experiences discovery 1960s
A grizzled Australian painter decides to jolt his stale creativity in a remote island on the Great Barrier Reef, where he meets an alluring young islander who becomes his enchanting model. Could the untamed girl be his long-awaited muse?
Comedy
UK
1966
110 Minutes
Albie
Donald Pleasence Françoise Dorléac Lionel Stander Jack MacGowran Iain Quarrier Jacqueline Bisset William Franklyn Trevor Delaney
retiree wife criminal guest partner husband amusing dark offbeat thrilling castle beach england road bedroom crime infidelity isolation friendship loyalty
In search of help, two wounded gangsters on the run find refuge in the secluded castle of a feeble man and his wife; however, under the point of a gun, nothing is what it seems.
Drama
Ireland
1957
81 Minutes
Mickey J.
Cyril Cusack Noel Purcell Jimmy O'Dea Jack MacGowran Tony Quinn Paul Farrell Kevin Casey Maureen Potter
inspector friend englishman train passenger nationalist sergeant witty inspiring ireland dunfaill station galway, ireland irish civil war morality political activism death row british-irish relations irish life escape sacrifice discovery
Three vignettes of old Irish country life, based on a series of short stories. In "The Majesty of the Law," a police officer must arrest a very old-fashioned, traditional fellow for assault... See full summary »
Comedy
USA
1970
91 Minutes
Jacques
Gene Wilder Donald Sutherland Hugh Griffith Jack MacGowran Billie Whitelaw Victor Spinetti Ewa Aulin
Two mismatched sets of identical twins, one aristocrat, one peasant, mistakenly exchange identities on the eve of the French Revolution.
Comedy, Drama
UK
1967
109 Minutes
Juniper
Michael Crawford John Lennon Roy Kinnear Jack MacGowran Michael Hordern Lee Montague Alexander Knox Jack Hedley
british soldier nazi private general dark witty offbeat africa battlefield germany world war ii armed conflict ghosts horrors of war fall quest 1940s
An inept British World War II commander leads his troops through a series of misadventures in North Africa and Europe.
Drama
UK
1951
80 Minutes
Billy Kyle
Michael Gough Eithne Dunne Noel Purcell Brian O'Higgins Jack MacGowran Diana Campbell Maureen O'Sullivan Christy Lawrence Esther O'Connor
Alex Kyle is an Irish Traveller. Whilst out poaching he is disturbed by the local gamekeeper. In an attempt to escape he hurls a rock at the man and kills him. One veteran Garda Officer, Mannigan, is determined he will not escape justice.
Horror
USA
1973
122 Minutes
Burke Dennings
Ellen Burstyn Linda Blair Max von Sydow Lee J. Cobb Kitty Winn Jack MacGowran Jason Miller Reverend William O'Malley Barton Heyman Peter Masterson Rudolf Schündler
priest actress psychiatrist doctor detective daughter creepy dark shocking frightening washington, d.c. iraq household bedroom house georgetown demonic possession catholicism mother/child relationship faith
When a 12-year-old girl is possessed by a mysterious entity, her mother seeks the help of two priests to save her.
Mystery & Thriller, Sci-Fi
UK|USA
1959
80 Minutes
Dr. Sampson, the Paleontologist
Gene Evans Andre Morell Leigh Madison Henry Vidon John Turner Jack MacGowran Maurice Kaufman Leonard Sachs
dinosaur marine biologist monster professor doctor submarine officer thrilling gripping striking suspenseful london ocean sea city england united kingdom atomic age atomic bomb marine life dinosaurs
Marine atomic tests cause changes in the ocean's ecosystem resulting in dangerous blobs of radiation and the resurrection of a dormant dinosaur that threatens London.
Biography
UK
1965
107 Minutes
Archie
Jack Cardiff Rod Taylor Maggie Smith Julie Christie Flora Robson Michael Redgrave Edith Evans Jack MacGowran T.P. McKenna William Foley Sian Phillips
writer prostitute mother father inspiring hedonistic dublin train station theater family home pub idealism injustice writing wretched excess rise growing up 1910s
The misadventures of a young idealist man in Dublin, Ireland in the early twentieth century.
Crime, Drama
Spain|USA
1963
106 Minutes
O'Brian
Laurence Harvey Sarah Miles Robert Walker John Ireland Ross Martin Lee Patterson Jack MacGowran Murray Melvin
A bank robber is sentenced to prison for committing a murder during the robbery. His brother comes up with a plan to break him out of prison--but on the condition that his brother's girlfriend "date" him first.
Mystery & Thriller
1959
95 Minutes
Postman
Hardy Kruger Stanley Baker Micheline Presle Robert Flemyng Gordon Jackson John Van Eyssen Jack MacGowran George Roubicek Redmond Phillips
painter art teacher lover frenchwoman inspector wrongly accused tense suspenseful engaging gripping intense melodramatic england wrongfully accused deception suspicion new love frame-up infidelity discovery
An artist (Hardy Kruger) accused of murdering his lover finds she was the mistress of a high-ranking diplomat.
Drama
USA
1952
129 Minutes
Feeney
John Wayne Maureen O'Hara Barry Fitzgerald Victor McLaglen Mildred Natwick Arthur Shields Ward Bond Jack MacGowran
boxer brother love interest widow doctor emotional touching church ireland united states village small town deception love confrontation wedding gambling death escape forbidden love
A retired American boxer returns to the village of his birth in Ireland, where he falls for a spirited redhead whose brother is contemptuous of their union.
Fantasy
USA
1959
95 Minutes
Phadrig Oge
Albert Sharpe Janet Munro Sean Connery Jimmy O'Dea Kieron Moore Estelle Winwood Denis O'Dea J.G. Devlin Walter Fitzgerald Jack MacGowran Farrell Pelly
caretaker daughter leprechaun suitor incredible playful uplifting ireland pub estate magic friendship wishes family folklore discovery love 1950s
A wily old codger matches wits with the King of the Leprechauns and helps play matchmaker for his daughter and the strapping lad who has replaced him as caretaker.
Comedy
UK
1953
84 Minutes
Stanley Holloway George Relph Naunton Wayne John Gregson Godfrey Tearle Hugh Griffith Gabrielle Brune Sidney James Reginald Beckwith Edie Martin Michael Trubshawe
townsperson wealthy man railway inspector vicar clerk bus driver charming witty hysterical village england railroad tracks museum train station bus station railroad public transportation feud competition runaway train
Volunteers take over their local passenger train service (against bus company resistance) when the government announces its closure.
Comedy
UK
1963
129 Minutes
Albert Finney Susannah York Hugh Griffith Edith Evans Joan Greenwood Diane Cilento George Devine David Tomlinson Rosalind Atkinson Wilfrid Lawson Rosalind Knight
orphan wealthy man ingénue rival lady airy cheeky charming family home inn police station england countryside mistaken identity class distinctions affair blackmail love triangle growing up rise
The romantic and chivalrous adventures of adopted bastard Tom Jones in 18th-century England.
Romance, War, Drama, History
Italy|UK|USA
1965
197 Minutes
Omar Sharif Julie Christie Geraldine Chaplin Tom Courtenay Alec Guinness Rod Steiger Siobhan McKenna Ralph Richardson Rita Tushingham Adrienne Corri Geoffrey Keen
doctor brother niece wife politician mistress passionate emotional tender russia moscow siberia world war i russian revolution doomed romance politics marriage poetry forbidden love discovery
The life of a Russian physician and poet who, although married to another, falls in love with a political activist's wife and experiences hardship during World War I and then the October Revolution.