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person_profile-Barry Fitzgerald

Barry Fitzgerald Died at age: 72

Actor | Producer

Date of Birth:

Mar 09, 1888

Country of birth:

Ireland

Died:

Jan 14, 1961

Biography of

Barry Fitzgerald

    Brother of actor Arthur Shields, with whom he performed in several films, most notably John Ford's The Quiet Man (1952). One of the very few character actors ever to achieve star status.

    Fitzgerald was the only player ever nominated for the Academy Award for both Best Actor and Best Supporting Actor in the same year for the same role. The recognition was for Going My Way (1944). After he received this double nomination, the Academy immediately changed their rules to prevent this from happening again, rules which have remained unchanged to this day.

    One of Hollywood's finest character actors and most accomplished scene stealers, Barry Fitzgerald was born William Joseph Shields in 1888 in Dublin, Ireland. Educated to enter the banking business, the diminutive Irishman with the irresistible brogue was bitten by the acting bug in the 1920s and joined Dublin's world-famous Abbey Players. He subsequently starred in the Abbey Theatre production of Sean O'Casey's Juno And The Paycock, a role that he recreated in his film debut for director Alfred Hitchcock in 1930. He was coaxed to the U.S. in 1935 by John Ford to appear in Ford's film adaptation of another O'Casey masterpiece, The Plough and the Stars (1936). Fitzgerald took up residence in Hollywood and went on to give outstanding performances in such films as The Long Voyage Home (1940), How Green Was My Valley (1941), None But the Lonely Heart (1944), And Then There Were None (1945), Two Years Before the Mast (1946) and what is probably the role for which he is most fondly remembered, The Quiet Man (1952). He won the Academy Award For Best Supporting Actor for his portrayal of gruff, aging Father Fitzgibbon in Going My Way (1944). He was also nominated for the Best Actor Oscar for the same role and was the only actor to ever be so honored. Barry Fitzgerald died in his beloved Dublin in 1961.

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Filmography of

Barry Fitzgerald

Found 44 Movies in total

Bing Crosby: Rediscovered

Self (archive footage) ( Actor )

... 2014

Rooney

Grandfather ( Actor )

... 1958

The Catered Affair

Uncle Jack Conlon ( Actor )

... 1956

Happy Ever After

Thady O'Heggarty ( Actor )

... 1954

The Quiet Man

Michaleen Oge Flynn ( Actor )

... 1952

Ha da venì... don Calogero!

Don Calogero ( Actor )

... 1952

Silver City

R.R. Jarboe ( Actor )

... 1951

Union Station

Inspector Donnelly ( Actor )

... 1950

The Story of Seabiscuit

Shawn O'Hara ( Actor )

... 1949

Top o' the Morning

Sergeant Briany McNaughton ( Actor )

... 1949

Miss Tatlock's Millions

Denno Noonan ( Actor )

... 1948

The Sainted Sisters

Robbie McCleary ( Actor )

... 1948

The Naked City

Lt. Dan Muldoon ( Actor )

... 1948

Variety Girl

Barry Fitzgerald ( Actor )

... 1947

Welcome Stranger

Dr. Joseph McRory ( Actor )

... 1947

Easy Come, Easy Go

Martin L. Donovan ( Actor )

... 1947

California

Michael Fabian ( Actor )

... 1947

Two Years Before the Mast

Terence O'Feenaghty ( Actor )

... 1946

The Stork Club

Jerry B. 'J.B.' / 'Pop' Bates ( Actor )

... 1945

And Then There Were None

Francis Quinncannon ( Actor )

... 1945

Duffy's Tavern

Bing Crosby's Father ( Actor )

... 1945

Incendiary Blonde

Michael 'Mike' Guinan ( Actor )

... 1945

None But the Lonely Heart

Henry Twite ( Actor )

... 1944

I Love a Soldier

Murphy ( Actor )

... 1944

Going My Way

Father Fitzgibbon ( Actor )

... 1944

Corvette K-225

Stooky ( Actor )

... 1943

Two Tickets to London

Capt. McCardle ( Actor )

... 1943

The Amazing Mrs. Holliday

Timothy Blake ( Actor )

... 1943

Tarzan's Secret Treasure

Dennis O'Doul ( Actor )

... 1941

How Green Was My Valley

Cyfartha ( Actor )

... 1941

The Sea Wolf

Cooky ( Actor )

... 1941

San Francisco Docks

The Icky ( Actor )

... 1940

The Long Voyage Home

Cocky ( Actor )

... 1940

Full Confession

Michael O'Keefe ( Actor )

... 1939

The Saint Strikes Back

Zipper Dyson ( Actor )

... 1939

Pacific Liner

Britches ( Actor )

... 1939

The Dawn Patrol

Bott ( Actor )

... 1938

Marie Antoinette

Peddler (uncredited) ( Actor )

... 1938

Four Men and a Prayer

Mulcahay ( Actor )

... 1938

Bringing Up Baby

Aloysius Gogarty ( Actor )

... 1938

Ebb Tide

Huish ( Actor )

... 1937

The Plough and the Stars

Fluther Good ( Actor )

... 1936

Guests of The Nation

Captured British soldier ( Actor )

... 1935

Juno and the Paycock

The Orator ( Actor )

... 1930