William Harrigan
actor
- Born:
- 1886-03-27, New York City, New York, USA
- Died:
- 1966-02-01, New York City, New York, USA
- Professions:
- actor
Biography
March 27, 1886, New York City greeted its native son William Harrigan, who would grow up to haunt the silver screen with a voice and presence impossible to forget. He terrified audiences as the terrified lab owner in James Whale’s 1933 chiller *The Invisible Man*, traded barbs in the Jazz-Age comedy *Nix on Dames* (1929), and swaggered through the noir heat of *Desert Fury* in 1947. Off-camera, his leading-man status extended to real life: he shared vows—and years—with three remarkable women, Louise Groody, Grace Culbert, and Dorothy Langdon. Nearly eight decades after his first curtain rose, the city that gave him his opening night called the final blackout; Harrigan died in Manhattan on February 1, 1966.
