{{short description|American Silent Film Actor}} {{Infobox person | image = Checkers (1919) - 11.jpg | image_size = 200px | caption = Carrigan in a still from ''Checkers'', 1919 | name = Thomas Carrigan | birth_date = {{Birth date|1886|04|13|df=yes}} | birth_place = Lapeer, Michigan, United States | death_date = {{Death date and age|1941|10|02|1886|04|13|df=yes}} | death_place = Lapeer, Michigan, United States | birth_name = | other_names = | spouse = Mabel Taliaferro | occupation = Actor | years_active = 1911–1932 }} thumb|Sheet music cover for ''Checkers'' [[File:Vivienne Osborne-Thomas Carrigan in Love's Flame.jpg|thumb|Still from ''Love's Flame'' with Vivienne Osborne]] [[File:A Cry at Midnight (1916) - 1.jpg|thumb|With cast members, director, and production company president for ''A Cry at Midnight'']] [[File:Room and Board (1921) - Binney.jpg|thumb|In ''Room and Board (1921 film)'' with Constance Binney]]
'''Thomas Carrigan''' (April 13, 1886 in Lapeer - October 2, 1941){{Citation needed|date=May 2026}} was an actor who starred in silent films in the U.S. He appeared in early Selig films<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1EQ9AAAAYAAJ&q=thomas+carrigan+lead|title=The Motion Picture Story Magazine|date=April 20, 1912|publisher=Motion Picture Story Magazine|via=Google Books}}</ref> and played dime store novel detective character Nick Carter in a series of short films.
==Filmography== *''Told in Colorado'' (1911)<ref name=bach/> *''Western Hearts'' (1911)<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-40mFfGB4VMC&q=t.j.+carrigan&pg=PA497|title=A Guide to Silent Westerns|first=Larry|last=Langman|date=April 20, 1992|publisher=Greenwood Publishing Group|isbn=9780313278587|via=Google Books}}</ref> *''Why the Sheriff is a Bachelor'' (1911)<ref name=bach>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6LiwRzKdo7AC&q=t.j.+carrigan&pg=PA204|title=The Amazing Tom Mix: The Most Famous Cowboy of the Movies|first=Richard D.|last=Jensen|date=June 20, 2005|publisher=iUniverse|isbn=9780595359493|via=Google Books}}</ref> *''Saved by the Pony Express'' (1911) *''Arabia The Equine Detective'' (1913) *''A Cry at Midnight'' (1916) *''Dimples'' (1916) *''Rose of the Alley'' (1916) *''Lovely Mary'' (1916) *''Peggy, the Will O' the Wisp'' (1917) *''Somewhere in America (film)'' (1917) *''Checkers'' (1919) *''The Truth'' (1920) *''The Tiger's Cub'' (1920)<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=OKeoa0P0d2cC&q=thomas+carrigan+silent+film+actor&pg=PA19|title=Carl Sandburg at the Movies: A Poet in the Silent Era, 1920-1927|first1=Carl|last1=Sandburg|first2=George|last2=Fetherling|date=April 20, 1985|publisher=Scarecrow Press|isbn=9780810817388|via=Google Books}}</ref> *''In Walked Mary'' (1920) *''Room and Board'' (1921) *''Salomy Jane'' (1923) *''You Can't Fool Your Wife'' (1923) *''Boston Blackie'' *''Crooked Alley'' (1923) *''The Making of O'Malley'' (1925) *''The Big Broadcast''(1932) *''Air Mail'' (1932)
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{{DEFAULTSORT:Carrigan, Thomas}} Category:1941 deaths Category:1886 births Category:American male film actors Category:American male silent film actors Category:20th-century American male actors Category:People from Lapeer, Michigan