 His short "La Cucaracha" won an Academy Award in 1935.Corrigan was born in San Francisco, California, to actress Lillian Hiby Corrigan (Lillian Elliott) (April 24, 1874 – January 15, 1959) and actor James Corrigan (October 17, 1867 – February 28, 1929).Corrigan studied drama at the University of California, Berkeley, from which he graduated in 1922.