Overview
Patrick Niall MacGinnis (29 March 1913 – 6 January 1977) was an Irish actor who made around 80 screen appearances.
Early life
MacGinnis was born in Dublin in 1913. He was educated at Stonyhurst College, a Jesuit public school in Lancashire in the North of England, and studied medicine at Trinity College Dublin (TCD), qualifying as a house surgeon. During the Second World War, MacGinnis served as a surgeon in the British Royal Navy.
In 1938 he starred in the hit comedy play Spring Meeting in the West End.
Acting career
Among his more notable film roles are:
a German U-boat sailor in the British war film 49th Parallel (1941)
Captain MacMorris in Henry V (1944)
the title character in the film Martin Luther (1953)
the villain 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)
Zeus in Jason and the Argonauts (1963)
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