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| O'Rourke In Film and Fiction | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| From time to time O'Rourkes have been portayed in films and on television programs. In 1945 Alan Ladd played a tough gangster trying to turn over a new leaf in 'Salty O'Rourke'. In 1949 Ricardo Montalban played a Brazilean polo player named Jose O'Rourke. Thirty years later he starred as the mysterious Mr. Rourke on the hit tv show Fantasy Island. Recently James Garner provided the voice to an animated Commander Rourke in the Disney film 'Atlantis'. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| A regal Olivia de Havilland marries the common man, Eddie O'Rourke (played by Bob Cummings) in the 1943 comedy, 'Princess O'Rourke' | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Alan Ladd played the tough guy gone strait in the noire classic, 'Salty O'Rourke' in 1945. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| O'Rourke characters were featured in the following movies and tv shows. Princess O'Rourke (1943) Salty O'Rourke (1945) Neptune's Daughter(1949) The Fountainhead (1949)-Gary Cooper plays Henry Rorke, a troubled architect Working Stiffs (tv show) Fantasy Island (tv show) The Sentinel (1977)-John Carradine portays a man named William O'Rourke, who guards the doorway to hell! O'Rourkes in Fiction Daniel O'Rourke by Thomas Croker Crofton- An Irish classic now noted for its hallucinogenic overtones . |
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| Ricardo Montalban played a polo player named Jose O'Rourke, Ester Williams man in the 1949 film 'Neptune's Daughter'. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| James Garner played a cartoon Commander Rourke in the animated film 'Atlantis' in 2001. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Fantasy Island was run by the mysterious Mr. Rourke in the hit tv series, also played by Montalban. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Actor Terence Stamp is married to the Singapore beauty, Elizabeth O'Rourke | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Mickey Rourke played a gangster named Gavin O'Rourke in the 1999 film 'Shergar' | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||