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Barry Fitzgerald

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Irish actor (1888-1961)

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William Joseph Shields, known professionally as Barry Fitzgerald, was an Irish stage, film, and television actor.

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Filmography 40

Bringing Up Baby1938 · ★ 7.5
The Quiet Man1952 · ★ 7.3
How Green Was My Valley1941 · ★ 7.3
And Then There Were None1945 · ★ 7.0
The Naked City1948 · ★ 7.2
Going My Way1944 · ★ 6.7
The Long Voyage Home1940 · ★ 6.6
The Sea Wolf1941 · ★ 7.2
Tarzan's Secret Treasure1941 · ★ 5.9
Juno and the Paycock1930 · ★ 4.7
None But the Lonely Heart1944 · ★ 6.4
Union Station1950 · ★ 6.5
The Catered Affair1956
Marie Antoinette1938
The Dawn Patrol1938
California1947
The Saint Strikes Back1939
The Plough and the Stars1936
Silver City1951
Happy Ever After1954
Variety Girl1947
The Story of Seabiscuit1949
Four Men and a Prayer1938
Corvette K-2251943
Pacific Liner1939
The Stork Club1945
Two Years Before the Mast1946
The Amazing Mrs. Holliday1943
Incendiary Blonde1945
Duffy's Tavern1945
Top o' the Morning1949
Welcome Stranger1947
Full Confession1939
Miss Tatlock's Millions1948
Rooney1958
I Love a Soldier1944
The Sainted Sisters1948
San Francisco Docks1940
Two Tickets to London1943
Ebb Tide1937

53 credits on file

Television 6

What's My Line?1950
The Ed Sullivan Show1948
Alfred Hitchcock Presents1955
Lux Video Theatre1950
General Electric Theater1953
Play of the Week1959

Awards 2

1945Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor
star on Hollywood Walk of Fame

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Connected to Barry 6

About this person

William Joseph Shields, known professionally as Barry Fitzgerald, was an Irish stage, film, and television actor. 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.

Category
Actors
Type
Actor
Status
deceased
Dates
Lived 1888 to 1961 · aged 72
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