John McCormack AKA John Francis McCormack Born: 14-Jun-1884 Birthplace: Athlone, County Westmeath, Ireland Died: 16-Sep-1945 Location of death: Booterstown, County Dublin, Ireland Cause of death: Pneumonia Remains: Buried, Deansgrange Cemetery, Dubin, Ireland
Gender: Male Religion: Roman Catholic Race or Ethnicity: White Sexual orientation: Straight Occupation: Singer Nationality: Ireland Executive summary: Operatic tenor, Irish balladeer Father: Andrew McCormack Mother: Hannah Watson Wife: Lily Foley (soprano, m. 2-Jul-1906, one son, one daughter) Son: Cyril Daughter: Gwendolyn Son: Kevin Foley (his nephew, adopted)
High School: Marist Brothers School, Athlone High School: Summerhill College, Sligo (1902)
New York Metropolitan Opera Singer (1912-14 and 1917-19) Chicago Opera Singer (1912-13)
Boston Opera Company Singer (1910-11)
Manhattan Opera Singer (1909-10)
French Legion of Honor Freeman, City of Dublin 1923
Order of St. Gregory the Great
Order of the Holy Sepulchre
Naturalized US Citizen 7-Jun-1919 Risk Factors: Emphysema
FILMOGRAPHY AS ACTOR Wings of the Morning (1937) · Himself Song o' My Heart (7-Sep-1930)
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