J. Warren Kerrigan
George Jack Warren Kerrigan was an American silent film actor and film director.
Controversy
In May 1917, Kerrigan was nearing the end of a four-month-long personal appearance publicity tour that had taken him across the United States and into Canada. At one of the final stops, a reporter for The Denver Times asked Kerrigan if he would be joining the war. Kerrigan replied:Picked up and reprinted in newspapers across the country, this statement stunned his fans and his popularity plummeted, never to fully recover. Family members later reported in Behind the Screen by William J. Mann that his slump in popularity was more due to his living with his mother and partner James Vincent in the same house, and not having a business manager to overcome the negative publicity.
Revival
In the spring of 1924, after John Barrymore bowed out, Kerrigan was assigned the starring role in Captain Blood. While the film was a moderate success, critics were unmoved and Kerrigan found himself working less and less and in smaller roles. In December 1924, Kerrigan was injured in an automobile accident in Illinois. According to the Des Moines Tribune his face was badly scarred and it was stated that "he may never star in films again.Personal life and death
Kerrigan never married and lived with his domestic partner James Carroll Vincent from about 1914 to Kerrigan's death in 1947.James Carroll Vincent
James Carroll Vincent was silent movie actor. He was born on November 9, 1897, in Baltimore, Maryland. He moved to California to be an actor and met Jack Warren Kerrigan. Vincent moved into Kerrigan's home, at 2307 Cahuenga Boulevard, where they began a long-term relationship. He was listed at various times as Kerrigan's secretary or gardener. Not to be confused with actor James Vincent, born in 1882 therefore only 3 years younger than Kerrigan, while his partner is described as being much younger than Kerrigan, or stage manager James Vincent, born in 1900 who committed suicide in 1953 in New York City. In 1919 Vincent, who was a "juvenile" actor with Bessie Barriscale, appeared in the cast of "Out of Court", in 1920 he was in the cast of "The Coast of Opportunity" and in 1924 in the cast of "$30,000", all three of them movies with or by Kerrigan. In 1924 Kerrigan and Vincent, and other friends, were in a automobile accident in Dixon, Illinois, on the route from Sterling to Chicago. In the news James Vincent was again named as Kerrigan's secretary.On June 9, 1947, Kerrigan died from pneumonia at the age of 67. He is buried in Forest Lawn Memorial Park, Glendale, Los Angeles, California.
After Kerrigan's death in June 1947, Vincent married Mitty Lee Turner on October 24, 1947. He committed suicide by gas in his bedroom at 14716 Magnolia Boulevard, Van Nuys, 9 months after the death of Kerrigan. Vincent died on March 15, 1948, in Van Nuys, California, and is buried at Forest Lawn Memorial Park.
Selected filmography
| Year | Film | Role |
| 1913 | Calamity Anne's Inheritance | The Agent |
| 1913 | Calamity Anne's Vanity | |
| 1913 | Calamity Anne's Beauty | |
| 1913 | Woman's Honor | |
| 1913 | Her Big Story | |
| 1913 | Quicksands | |
| 1913 | Truth in the Wilderness | |
| 1913 | For the Flag | |
| 1913 | For the Crown | |
| 1913 | Calamity Anne, Heroine | |
| 1913 | The Restless Spirit | |
| 1913 | The Girl and the Greaser | |
| 1913 | The Tale of the Ticker | |
| 1913 | Back to Life | Destiny's Victim |
| 1913 | Rory o' the Bogs | Rory o' the Bogs |
| 1914 | Samson | |
| 1915 | The Stool Pigeon | Walter Jason |
| 1915 | For Cash | Arthen Owen |
| 1915 | The Oyster Dredger | Jack, the Oyster Dredger |
| 1916 | Langdon's Legacy | Langdon |
| 1918 | Three X Gordon | Harold Gordon |
| 1919 | Come Again Smith | Joe Smith |
| 1920 | The House of Whispers The Lord Loves the Irish" | |
| 1922 | Night Life in Hollywood | Himself |
| 1923 | The Covered Wagon | Will Banion |
| 1923 | The Girl of the Golden West | Ramerrez |
| 1923 | Mary of the Movies | Himself |
| 1923 | Hollywood | Himself |
| 1923 | The Man from Brodney's | Hollingsworth Chase |
| 1924 | Captain Blood | Captain Peter Blood |