Maire O'Neill
Biography
Maire O'Neill was an Irish stage and film actress. She trained in drama classes and joined the National Theatre Society, which became the Abbey Theatre, where she performed from 1906 to 1918. She was the first actress to play Pegeen Mike Flaherty, the lead in John Millington Synge's The Playboy of the Western World, in 1907. In 1904 she was cast as Margaret Drybone in Teresa Deevy's Katie Roche, a production that ran for 38 performances. Her American debut came in New York in 1914, in General John Regan at the Hudson Theatre. As Maire O'Neill she worked in films from 1930, among them Alfred Hitchcock's adaptation of Seán O'Casey's Juno and the Paycock (1930) and Brian Desmond Hurst's Riders to the Sea (1935). She died in 1952.
67years old at death
- Born Dublin
- Died Basingstoke
- Star sign: CapricornThe sign runs December 22 to January 19
- Mary Allgood (birth name)Also credited as Mary Algood and Molly O'Neill
Movie Career
- Films
- 3
- Career span
- 20 years1930 to 1950
Every film, newest first
- 1950The Clouded YellowIMDb rating 6.9
- 1938St. Martin's LaneIMDb rating 6.9
- 1930Juno and the PaycockIMDb rating 4.6
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First role
In 1914, O'Neill first performed in America, appearing in New York at the Hudson Theatre in the play General John Regan.
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Worked with
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Films together
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Jean Simmons's page
André Morell's page
All films by Alfred Hitchcock
Tim WhelanDirector, 1 film, 1938
All films by Tim Whelan
Ralph ThomasDirector, 1 film, 1950
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