Barry Fitzgerald
Irish actor (1888-1961) · Ireland · On the map · Actors · Died at 72
William Joseph Shields, known professionally as Barry Fitzgerald, was an Irish stage, film, and television actor.
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Play of the WeekSeries1958
RooneyFilm, Grandfather1955
Alfred Hitchcock PresentsSeries, Harold 'Stretch' Sears1954
Happy Ever AfterFilm, Thady O'Heggarty1953
General Electric TheaterSeries1952
The Quiet ManFilm, Michaleen Oge Flynn1950
Lux Video TheatreSeries, Barry Flynn
What's My Line?Series, 1950
Union StationFilm, 1950Inspector Donnelly1949
The Story of SeabiscuitFilm, Shawn O'Hara1948
The Ed Sullivan ShowSeries1947
CaliforniaFilm, Michael Fabian1946
Two Years Before the MastFilm, Terence O'Feenaghty1945Academy Award for Best Supporting ActorAward1944
Going My WayFilm, Father Fitzgibbon1943
Corvette K-225Film, Stooky1940
San Francisco DocksFilm, The Icky1939
Full ConfessionFilm, Michael O'Keefe1936
The Plough and the StarsFilm, Fluther Good1930
Juno and the PaycockFilm, The Orator1888Born10 March 1888Known for
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Bringing Up Baby 1938
The Quiet Man 1952
How Green Was My Valley 1941
The Naked City 1948
The Sea Wolf 1941
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John Ford Directed How Green Was My Valley (1942)
John Farrow Directed California (1947)
Frank Faylen Also in Corvette K-225 and California
Howard da Silva Also in Marie Antoinette and The Sea Wolf
Seton I. Miller Produced California (1947)
Buddy DeSylva Produced Incendiary Blonde and The Stork Club- Frank Butler Wrote Going My Way and Incendiary Blonde
Darryl F. Zanuck Produced How Green Was My Valley (1942)
Hal B. Wallis Produced The Dawn Patrol and The Sea Wolf
Jack L. Warner Produced The Dawn Patrol and The Sea Wolf
Albert Dekker Also in Marie Antoinette (1938)
Joan Caulfield Also in Variety Girl and Duffy's Tavern- Dudley Nichols Wrote And Then There Were None (1953)
James Flavin Also in The Long Voyage Home and Corvette K-225
Hal Walker Directed Duffy's Tavern and The Stork Club- Harry Hayden Also in Four Men and a Prayer and California
Kenneth Macgowan Produced Four Men and a Prayer (1938)
Ethan Laidlaw Also in The Sea Wolf and California
Howard Hawks Produced Corvette K-225 (1943)
William Bendix Also in Two Years Before the Mast (1946)
Richard Haydn Directed Miss Tatlock's Millions (1948)
Mary Gordon Also in How Green Was My Valley (1941)
Harry Tenbrook Also in The Quiet Man (1953)
George Magrill Also in The Sea Wolf (1949)
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In a career spanning almost forty years, he appeared in such notable films as Bringing Up Baby (1938), The Long Voyage Home (1940), How Green Was My Valley (1941), The Sea Wolf (1941), Going My Way (1944), None but the Lonely Heart (1944), and The Quiet Man (1952). For Going My Way, he won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor and was simultaneously nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor for the same performance. In 2020, he was listed at number 11 on The Irish Times list of Ireland's greatest film actors.
