Malachy McCourt

Malachy Gerard McCourt Jr. (September 20, 1931 – March 11, 2024) was an American actor, politician and writer. He was born in New York City. McCourt was raised in Limerick, Ireland. He was known for his annual Christmas-time appearances on All My Children as Father Clarence and for playing Francis Preston Blair in Gods and Generals (2003).

McCourt was the 2006 Green Party candidate for governor of New York.http://gpnys.dreamhosters.com/?p=312 He lost to the Democratic candidate Eliot Spitzer. He was the younger brother of author Frank McCourt.

His movie roles include The Molly Maguires (1970), The Brink's Job (1978), Q (1982), Brewster's Millions (1985), The January Man (1989), Beyond the Pale (2000), and Ash Wednesday (2002).

In 1998, McCourt authored A Monk Swimming, a memoir of his life in Limerick, Ireland. This memoir picks up roughly where Frank McCourt, the author's older brother, left off at the end of his Pulitzer Prize–winning Angela's Ashes.  

McCourt married Linda Wachsman, and had two children with her. He had two more children by his second wife, Diana Galin.

In March 2023, McCourt left hospice care while being treated for prostate and skin cancer. He died at a hospital in New York City on March 11, 2024 at the age of 92.

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