Quigley was born in
Jerusalem,
Mandatory Palestine, where his father was serving as an officer in the
British Army. The family returned to
Ireland in the 1930s and, following military service in the
Second World War, Quigley trained as an actor at the
Abbey School of Acting. He appeared in two
Stanley Kubrick films: first as the prison chaplain in
A Clockwork Orange (1971), and then as Captain Grogan in
Barry Lyndon (1975). In British television, he played a has-been gangster in the serial
Big Breadwinner Hog (1969). His theatre roles include the Irishman in
Tom Murphy's
The Gigli Concert, for which he won the Harvey's Best Actor Award in 1984. whose members included his wife,
Genevieve Lyons. The company was disestablished in 1960. During the same period, he produced the radio
soap opera The Kennedys of Castleross. In 1983 Quigley appeared in the film
Educating Rita. ==Death==