Jack Mulcahy

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Real Name: John Joseph Francis Mulcahy III
Birth Place: New York City, New York, USA
Birth Date: April 22, 1954
Occupation: Actor, Music Department

Jack Mulcahy Biography

Born and raised in New York City, Jack started in the entertainment business as a lead vocalist and guitarist for various popular rock 'n' roll bands. He got a taste of success with his very first film, _Porky's_, directed by the late 'Bob Clark'. After the sequel, Porky's II: The Next Day (1983), Jack continued to appear in films and on television including "Law & Order" (1990); "NYPD Blue" (1993); Awakenings (1990); and Cadillac Man (1990). Jack got his break in the spring of 1993 when he met director, Edward Burns, while the two played for the same team in the Central Park Softball League. They began discussing a story that Burns had started writing called The Brothers McMullen (1995) and Burns offered Jack the lead as the tortured and conflicted eldest brother, Jack."McMullen" went on to become one of the most successful independent features in film history as well as garnering several illustrious awards (Best Picture of 1995 at Robert Redford's Sundance Film Festival and Best Picture at the 1995 Deauxville Film Festival) and was the first acquisition of Fox Searchlight, the art film division of 20th Century Fox.In 2006, Jack turned some of his attention to producing. One play he produced and starred in was called "PrimeTime". It opened the Off-Broadway Spring/Summer of 2006 season to glowing notices. Then, after a few seasons away, in the fall of 2010, he went back to the boards and starred in the Off Broadway showcase, Friction, again to packed houses a stellar reviews.After Friction, Jack went on a run of starring in five films, most promising among them a slacker comedy, "Stuck In The Middle", that took the 2012 festival circuit by storm, delighting audiences and garnering four-star reviews. In one review a critic wrote, "Jack Mulcahy, as Leo, steals every scene in this crowd pleasing comedy!"Jack started his own film company, West End Kid Productions, that has three projects on its slate set for shooting in 2013: a paranormal thriller, The Manor, is set to go late spring - early summer; Bull, the story of a real life ballplayer from a bygone era, and his influence on his talented yet troubled great granddaughter; and Citizen Gone, a harrowing an timely story of a government rendition and mistaken identity.Jack also has a sitcom in development, "Meet The McGillicuddy's". In it, Jack will play the lead of Paddy McGillicuddy, a widower from Dublin starting a new life in New York City with his three kids - Irish triplet twenty-somethings. As one of the project's main writers, Jack will make his directorial debut with the show.Jack is active in several charity events and organizations such as The Jackie Robinson Foundation; The Carol M. Baldwin Breast Cancer Research Foundation; and the Mercy College Scholarship Foundation.An avid softball player, an 15-handicap golfer and all-around athlete, Jack graduated from the prestigious Stuyvesant High School in New York City at the age of 16. He has an IQ of 147.Jack resides on the Upper West Side of Manhattan in the apartment that he has called home since birth.

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