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O'Rourkes In Film and Fiction
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The great James Garner provided the voice to Commander Rourke in Disney's recent Atlantis animated feature.
The Alan Ladd classic Salty O'Rourke is now available on dvd! Legendary British actor Terence Stamp is married to the Singapore beauty, Elizabeth O'Rourke
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O'Rourke's On the Screen

Fictional O'Rourkes have appeared several times on the silver screen and on a few television programs. Alan Ladd portrayed a reformed gangster named Salty O'Rourke in the 1945 film of that name. Olivia de Havilland played the lead in the 1943 film Princess O'Rourke, while the 1949 Esther Williams classic Neptune's Daughter featured Ricardo Montalban as the Brazilean Jose O'Rourke. Montalban seemed to have an affinity for the name and years later immortalized himself as the mysterious Mr. Rourke on the hit series Fantasy Island. Working Stiffs was a shortlived comedy that starred Jim Belushi and Michael Keaton of all people as two O'Rourke brothers trying to do the name proud.

Films and TV shows featuring fictional O'Rourkes include:
Salty O'Rourke (1945)
Princess O'Rourke (1943)
Neptune's Daughter(1949)
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!
The Fountainhead (1949)- Gary Cooper plays Rorke, the troubled architect.
Fort Apache -John Agar plays Lt. Michael "Mickey" O'Rourke,Ward Bond plays Sgt. Major O'Rourke,Irene Rich plays Mrs. Mary O'Rourke
Shergar (1999)- Mickey Rourke plays Gavin O'Rourke

Mickey Rourke played the Irish gangster Gavin O'Rourke in the 1999 film Shergar

O'Rourkes in Fiction

Daniel O'Rourke by Thomas Croker Crofton- is a classic Irish folk-tale that tells of the fantastic escapades of Daniel O'Rourke and his long walk home one dark moonlit night.
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WANT MORE! BUY An Irish Odyssey- A History of the Family of O'Rourke by Stephen Vincent O'Rourke - a detailed account of the history surrounding the O'Rourke surname.. If your surname is O'Rourke or one of its' variants or if you are friends with an O'Rourke, you owe it to yourself to buy this unique book. Written, researched and edited by Irish-American Stephen Vincent O'Rourke this book is the first history of the family written by one of it's own.Higginson Books of Salem, MA is offering this title on a print-to order book as a softcover or hardcover.
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