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Arthur Shields (15 February 1896 – 27 April 1970) was an Irish stage and film actor.
Born into an Irish Protestant family in Portobello, Dublin, he started acting in the Abbey Theatre when still a young man. He was the younger brother of actor Barry Fitzgerald. An Irish nationalist, he fought in the Easter Uprising of 1916. He was captured and was interned in Frongoch, North Wales.[1] He afterwards returned to the Abbey theatre. In 1936 John Ford brought him to the United States to act in a film version of The Plough and the Stars.
He later returned to the U.S. and for health reasons, he decided to reside in California. He died at his home in Santa Barbara, California, aged 74.
Some of his memorable roles were in John Ford films. Shields portrayed the Reverend Playfair in Ford’s The Quiet Man, opposite John Wayne, Maureen O’Hara and his brother, Barry Fitzgerald. He played Dr. Laughlin in She Wore a Yellow Ribbon with Wayne and Joanne Dru, and appeared yet again with Wayne and Barry Fitzgerald in Ford’s Long Voyage Home. His other films include: Little Nellie Kelly, The Keys of the Kingdom, The Fabulous Dorseys, Gallant Journey, The Shocking Miss Pilgrim, Drums Along the Mohawk, Lady Godiva, National Velvet and The River.
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Arthur Shields Biography / Wiki
| Name | Arthur Shields |
| Also Know | |
| Gender | Male |
| Known For | Acting |
| Place of Birth | Dublin, Ireland |
| Date of Birth | 1896-02-15 |
| Age(as in 2022) | 74 |
| Deathday | 1970-04-27 |
Arthur Shields Acting Movies
| Movie Name | Character | Release Date | Overview |
| The Adventure of the Speckled Band | The Bookshop Man | 1949-03-25 | Sherlock Holmes gets the clues he needs to solve a murder, and to prevent another one from occurring, when he finds out that a doctor owns a poisonous… |
| The River | Mr. John | 1951-09-10 | Director Jean Renoir’s entrancing first color feature—shot entirely on location in India—is a visual tour de force. Based on the novel by Rumer … |
| Daughter of Dr. Jekyll | Dr. Lomas | 1957-06-28 | A young woman discovers she is the daughter of the infamous Dr. Jekyll, and begins to believe that she may also have a split personality, one of whom … |
| For the Love of Mike | Father Walsh | 1960-08-28 | An orphan trains a racehorse so he can win the money to build a new church…. |
| Blue Blood | Tim Donovan | 1951-01-28 | An out of work racehorse trainer is adopted by the daughters of a wealthy breeder and trains a cast-off horse for the big race of the season…. |
| Apache Drums | Reverend Griffin | 1951-04-01 | A gambler is thrown out of a western town, but returns when the town is suddenly threatened by a band of marauding Apaches…. |
| Pride of the Blue Grass | Wilson | 1954-04-04 | A girl owns a horse, and hires a boy as a trainer. The horse (Gypsy Prince) enters a race and is injured. The boy takes job at another stable and is s… |
| South Sea Woman | ‘Jimmy-legs’ Donovan | 1953-06-27 | Marine Sergeant James O’Hearn is being tried at the San Diego Marine base for desertion, theft, scandalous conduct and destruction of property in time… |
| Knocknagow | Phil Lahy | 1918-01-30 | The agent of an absentee landlord resorts to underhand means in order to evict tenants from land that could be more profitably used for cattle. Adapte… |
| Enchanted Island | Jimmy Dooley | 1958-11-08 | Two 19th-century sailors jump ship only to discover their tropical paradise is a cannibal stronghold…. |
| A Wonderful Life | Pastor | 1950-08-10 | Sponsored by The Protestant Film Commission, this religiously-affiliated tale centers around citizen Henry Wood (played by Oscar winner James Dunn fro… |
| Little Nellie Kelly | Timothy Fogarty | 1940-11-22 | Nellie Kelly, the daughter of Irish immigrants, patches up differences between her father and maternal grandfather while rising to the top on Broadway… |
| Tarzan and the Slave Girl | Dr. E.E. Campbell | 1950-06-23 | The Lionians, a tribe of lion worshippers, make a desperate attempt to find a cure for the mysterious disease plaguing their village. Their Chief deci… |
| Scandal at Scourie | Father Reilly | 1953-05-17 | After their orphanage burns down, a group of children are being transported west by train to Manitoba. All of them are available for adoption and at a… |
| The Fighting O’Flynn | Dooley | 1949-02-26 | A swashbuckling Irishman opposes French agents during the Napoleonic wars…. |
| Seven Keys to Baldpate | Prof. Bolton | 1947-06-05 | Writer Kenneth Magee has bet that he can finish a story at rural resort Baldpate Inn, now closed for the winter. The owner has given him the “only” ke… |
| Nightmare | Sergeant | 1942-11-10 | An ex-gambler helps a beautiful widow, and becomes involved with a murder, secret agents, and saboteurs…. |
| The Corn Is Green | Glyn Thomas | 1945-03-29 | When a teacher reads an essay written by Morgan Evans, one of the boys, moved by his rough poetry she decides to hold classes in her house and believe… |
| Fighting Father Dunne | Michael O’Donnell | 1948-05-12 | A dedicated priest tries to reform a group of homeless boys in turn-of-the-century St. Louis…. |
| Confirm or Deny | Jeff, Blind Typist | 1941-12-12 | Newsman Mitch and teletype operator Jennifer, whose job is to see he doesn’t send inappropriate stuff out of the country, dodge bombs during the blitz… |
| The Barefoot Mailman | Ben Titus | 1951-12-03 | Sylvanus Hurley is a swindler who’s been swindled: he’s been given a deed to a large plot of mangrove swamp in the out-of-the-way community. So he dec… |
| Three Strangers | Prosecutor | 1946-01-28 | On the eve of the Chinese New Year, three strangers, Crystal Shackleford, married to a wealthy philanderer; Jerome Artbutny, an outwardly respectable … |
| The Verdict | Rev. Holbrook | 1946-11-23 | After an innocent man is executed in a case he was responsible for, a Scotland Yard superintendent finds himself investigating the murder of his key w… |
| World for Ransom | Sean O’Connor | 1954-01-31 | In Singapore, a private detective and the British authorities are on the trail of a crime syndicate that kidnaps a nuclear physicist with the aim of s… |
| The Fabulous Dorseys | Thomas Dorsey Sr. | 1947-02-26 | The story of Tommy and Jimmy Dorsey from their boyhood in Pennsylvania through their rise, their breakup, and their personal reunion…. |
| The Gay Falcon | Inspector Mike Waldeck | 1941-10-24 | Having forsaken the detective business for the safer confines of personal insurance, Gay Laurence is compelled to return to his sleuthing ways. Along … |
| Drums Along the Mohawk | Reverend Rosenkrantz | 1939-11-10 | Albany, New York, 1776. After marrying, Gil and Lana travel north to settle on a small farm in the Mohawk River Valley, but soon their growing prosper… |
| My Own True Love | Iverson | 1948-07-01 | Following World War II, a woman tries to help her fiance understand his son’s traumatic experience as a G.I., during which he lost a leg and was impri… |
| Youth Runs Wild | Mr. Dunlop | 1944-09-01 | The teens of a defense-plant town hop on the road to juvenile delinquency while their parents are busy with the war…. |
| The Shocking Miss Pilgrim | Michael Michael | 1947-01-04 | In the late 1800s, Miss Pilgrim, a young stenographer, or typewriter, becomes the first female employee at a Boston shipping office. Although the men … |
| Lady Godiva of Coventry | Innkeeper | 1955-11-02 | Fictionalized account of events leading up the famous nude ride (alas, her hair covers everything) of the militant Saxon lady…. |
| The Pigeon That Took Rome | Monsignor O’Toole | 1962-06-19 | An American Infantry officer assigned to a cloak-and-dagger role in Rome uses homing pigeons for outside contact, with humorous results…. |
| Easy Come, Easy Go | Timothy Mike Donovan | 1947-03-07 | Comedy about an Irish father, who enjoys betting on horses, who keeps interfering with his daughter’s romance with a serviceman…. |
| The Man from Down Under | Father Polycarp | 1943-08-04 | An Australian blowhard raises two orphaned children as his own in the years leading up to WWII…. |
| The King and Four Queens | Padre | 1956-12-21 | Opportunistic con man Dan Kehoe ingratiates himself with the cantankerous mother of four outlaws and their beautiful widows in order to find their hid… |
| Too Young to Know | Mr. Enright | 1945-12-01 | A returning GI searches for the wife who left him and gave away their son…. |
| The Plough and the Stars | Padraic Pearse | 1936-12-26 | A husband clashes with his wife over his membership to the Irish citizen army during the Easter rebellion…. |
| Phantoms, Inc. | Dr. Rupert Trykel | 1945-06-09 | This Crime Does Not Pay entry focuses on fake spiritualists. A mother is worried about her son, who is missing in action. Over time, she gives a con m… |
| Tap Roots | Reverend Kirkland | 1948-08-25 | Set at the beginning of the Civil War, Tap Roots is all about a county in Mississippi which chooses to secede from the state rather than enter the con… |
| Gallant Journey | Father Kenton | 1946-09-24 | Director William A. Wellman adds another to his long line of salutes-to-aviation films in this bio of an aviation pioneer, John Montgomery (Glenn Ford… |
| Dr. Renault’s Secret | Inspector Duval (uncredited) | 1942-10-19 | A remake of the 1927 horror film “The Wizard”. Dr. Larry Forbes(Sheppard Strudwick)arrives in a remote French village to visit his fiancee (Lynne Robe… |
| She Wore a Yellow Ribbon | Dr. O’Laughlin | 1949-10-22 | After Custer and the 7th Cavalry are wiped out by Indians, everyone expects the worst. Capt. Nathan Brittles is ordered out on patrol but he’s also re… |
| The Long Voyage Home | Donkeyman | 1940-11-16 | The crew of the merchant ship Glencairn hope to survive a transatlantic crossing during World War II. Adapted from four Eugene O’Neill one-act plays…. |
| River of No Return | Minister | 1954-04-30 | An itinerant farmer and his young son help a heart-of-gold saloon singer search for her estranged husband…. |
| Sealed Cargo | Kevin Dolan | 1951-05-19 | A Newfoundland fishingboat comes to the aid of a wrecked Danish sailing ship and tows it to a small village, but eventually the captain of the fishing… |
| Pacific Rendezvous | Prof. Harvey Lessmore | 1942-05-21 | A code expert working for Naval Intelligence is assigned to decode enemy messages despite his desire for active duty…. |
| The Quiet Man | Rev. Cyril ‘Snuffy’ Playfair | 1952-07-21 | An American man returns to the village of his birth in Ireland, where he finds love and conflict…. |
| Red Light | Father Redmond | 1949-09-30 | Nick Cherney, in prison for embezzling from Torno Freight Co., sees a chance to get back at Johnny Torno through his young priest brother Jess. He pay… |
| The People Against O’Hara | Mr. O’Hara | 1951-09-01 | A defense attorney jeopardizes his career to save his client…. |
| How Green Was My Valley | Mr. Parry | 1941-10-28 | At the turn of the century in a Welsh mining village, the Morgans (he stern, she gentle) raise coal-mining sons and hope their youngest will find a be… |
| Lady Scarface | Matt Willis | 1941-09-26 | A Chicago gang led by Slade carries out an audacious brokerage robbery. Lieutenant Bill Mason takes the case, continuing his friendly-enemy relationsh… |
| National Velvet | Mr. Hallam | 1945-01-26 | Mi Taylor is a young wanderer and opportunist who finds himself in the quiet English countryside home of the Brown family. The youngest daughter, Velv… |
| Challenge to Lassie | Dr. Lee | 1949-10-31 | When Lassie’s master dies, an old friend tries to convince a judge that the dog’s life should be spared…. |
| Lassie Come Home | Andrew | 1943-12-01 | Hard times come for the Carraclough family and they are forced to sell their dog, Lassie, to the rich Duke of Rudling. Lassie, however, is unwilling t… |
| Jack and the Beanstalk | Patrick the Harp | 1952-04-07 | A young boy trades the family cow for magic beans…. |
| Gentleman Jim | Father Burke | 1942-11-14 | As bare-knuckled boxing enters the modern era, brash extrovert Jim Corbett uses new rules and dazzlingly innovative footwork to rise to the top of the… |
| Broadway | Pete Dailey | 1942-05-08 | Gangsters, nightclubs and the Roaring ’20s…. |
| The Loves of Edgar Allan Poe | Griswald (uncredited) | 1942-08-28 | Biography of Edgar Allan Poe and the women in his life…. |
| This Above All | Hospital Chaplain | 1942-05-12 | In 1940 England, aristocratic Prudence Cathaway alarms her snobbish parents by joining the WAF service branch. She soon meets and falls in love with t… |
| The Keys of the Kingdom | Father Fitzgerald, Dean at Holywell | 1944-12-15 | A young priest, Father Chisholm is sent to China to establish a Catholic parish among the non-Christian Chinese. While his boyhood friend, also a prie… |
| The Valley of Decision | Callahan | 1945-05-03 | Mary Rafferty comes from a poor family of steel mill workers in 19th Century Pittsburgh. Her family objects when she goes to work as a maid for the we… |
| The Sign of the Cross | Chaplain Costello (1944 Re-Release Prologue) (uncredited) | 1932-11-30 | After burning Rome, Emperor Nero decides to blame the Christians, and issues the edict that they are all to be caught and sent to the arena. Two old C… |
| Main Street to Broadway | Actor in Fantasy Sequence | 1953-10-12 | In New York, a surly, down-on-his-heels playwright meets a country girl who’s giving up trying to act and returning home. He goes with her for inspira… |
| Never Say Goodbye | McCarthy (uncredited) | 1946-11-09 | Phil and Ellen Gayley have been divorced for a year, and their 7-year old daughter, Flip, is very unhappy that her parents are not together. Flip star… |
| The Black Swan | The Bishop (uncredited) | 1942-12-04 | When notorious pirate Henry Morgan is made governor of Jamaica, he enlists the help of some of his former partners in ridding the Caribbean of buccane… |
| Madame Curie | Businessman (uncredited) | 1943-12-16 | Poor physics student Marie is studying at the Sorbonne in 1890s Paris. One of the few women studying in her field, Marie encounters skepticism concern… |
| The White Cliffs of Dover | Benson (uncredited) | 1944-05-11 | Susan travels with her father to England for a vacation. Invited to a society ball, Susan meets Sir John Ashwood and marries him after a whirlwind rom… |
| Above Suspicion | Walmer Hotel Porter (Uncredited) | 1943-05-31 | Two newlyweds spy on the Nazis for the British Secret Service during their honeymoon in Europe…. |
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