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Paddy McGuire

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{{Short description|Irish actor}}

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| death_place = Norwalk, California, U.S.

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Paddy McGuire (né McQuire, 1884 – November 16, 1923) was an Irish actor and comedian.[https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0570274/ IMDB enty]

Biography

Paddy McQuire was born in Ireland in 1884{{cite book|author=James Roots|title=The 100 Greatest Silent Film Comedians|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=pigvBQAAQBAJ&pg=PA379|date=23 October 2014|publisher=Rowman & Littlefield Publishers|isbn=978-1-4422-3650-9|pages=379–380}} or 1885.{{cite web|title=Staff Directory|url=http://essanaystudios.org/about-us/employees/|website=Essanay Studios|accessdate=7 March 2015|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20150211065016/http://essanaystudios.org/about-us/employees/|archivedate=11 February 2015}} A burlesque comedian with a rubber face, McQuire was a regular supporting player in the films of Charlie Chaplin at the Essanay studio, and he joined Essanay alumnus Ben Turpin at the Vogue company in 1916. Vogue starred or co-starred him in two-reel comedies, first billing him as "Paddy McQuire" and then "Paddy McGuire." In 1917 he joined the Fox comedy company, under the direction of future comedy star Charley Chase.Motion Picture World, May 26, 1917, p. 211. By 1920 McGuire was with the Al Christie studio.Exhibitors Herald, Feb. 7, 1920, p. 87.

Paddy McGuire died on November 16, 1923, in Norwalk, California, supposedly of insanity and/or paralysis as a result of syphilis.

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Category:1884 births

Category:1923 deaths

Category:20th-century Irish male actors

Category:Irish expatriate male actors in the United States

Category:Irish male silent film actors

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