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.
Barry Fitzgerald Biography / Wiki
| Name | Barry Fitzgerald |
| Also Know | William Joseph Shields, Барри Фитцджеральд |
| Gender | Male |
| Known For | Acting |
| Place of Birth | Dublin, Ireland |
| Date of Birth | 1888-03-10 |
| Age(as in 2022) | 72 |
| Deathday | 1961-01-14 |
Barry Fitzgerald Acting Movies
| Movie Name | Character | Release Date | Overview |
| And Then There Were None | Francis Quinncannon | 1945-10-31 | Ten strangers are summoned to a remote island and while they are waiting for the mysterious host to appear, a recording levels serious accusations at … |
| The Naked City | Det. Lt. Dan Muldoon | 1948-03-04 | The Naked City portrays the police investigation that follows the murder of a young model. A veteran cop is placed in charge of the case and he sets a… |
| Juno and the Paycock | The Orator | 1930-06-29 | During the Irish revolution, a family earns a big inheritance. They start leading a rich life, forgetting what the most important values of life reall… |
| Easy Come, Easy Go | Martin L. 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…. |
| Broth of a Boy | Patrick Farrell | 1959-02-06 | An Irish codger, 110, wants a piece of the action for doing a British producer’s TV show…. |
| Guests of The Nation | Captured British soldier | 1935-01-01 | During the Irish War of Independence in 1921, a pair of IRA soldiers are ordered to guard two British prisoners, but face a dilemma when they bond wit… |
| Ha da venì… don Calogero! | Don Calogero | 1952-03-04 | … |
| The Story of Seabiscuit | Shawn O’Hara | 1949-11-12 | Horse trainer Shawn O’Hara and his lovely niece, Margaret, come to America to escape the memory of an accident involving Margaret’s brother, Danny. Wo… |
| Going My Way | Father Fitzgibbon | 1944-05-15 | Youthful Father Chuck O’Malley led a colorful life of sports, song, and romance before joining the Roman Catholic clergy. After being appointed to a r… |
| The Stork Club | Jerry B. ‘J.B.’ / ‘Pop’ Bates | 1945-12-28 | Director Hal Walker’s 1945 musical comedy stars Betty Hutton as a hat-check girl at New York City’s famous nightclub. The cast also includes Barry Fit… |
| Union Station | Inspector Donnelly | 1950-10-04 | Police catch a break when suspected kidnappers are spotted on a train heading towards Union Station. Police, train station security and a witness try … |
| The Amazing Mrs. Holliday | Timothy Blake | 1943-02-19 | A missionary tries to outwit the U.S. government and smuggle Chinese orphans into the country…. |
| None But the Lonely Heart | Henry Twite | 1944-10-17 | When an itinerant reluctantly returns home to help his sickly mother run her shop, they’re both tempted to turn to crime to help make ends meet…. |
| San Francisco Docks | The Icky | 1940-12-25 | Longshoreman Johnny Barnes is in love with Kitty Tracy, barmaid at her father’s waterfront saloon, and he beats up Cassidy, a crooked politician who h… |
| California | Michael Fabian | 1947-02-21 | “Wicked” Lily Bishop joins a wagon train to California, led by Michael Fabian and Johnny Trumbo, but news of the Gold Rush scatters the train. When Jo… |
| Welcome Stranger | Dr. Joseph McRory | 1947-06-13 | Crusty Dr. McRory of Fallbridge, Maine, hires his vacation replacement sight unseen. Alas, he and young singing Doctor Jim Pearson don’t hit it off; b… |
| Top o’ the Morning | Sergeant Briany McNaughton | 1949-08-31 | A singing insurance investigator comes to Ireland to recover the stolen Blarney Stone…and romance the local policeman’s daughter…. |
| The Plough and the Stars | Fluther Good | 1936-12-26 | A husband clashes with his wife over his membership to the Irish citizen army during the Easter rebellion…. |
| Rooney | Grandfather | 1958-03-24 | The life of James Ignatius Rooney, a Dublin rubbish collector during the week and a Gaelic sportsman at the weekends…. |
| The Sainted Sisters | Robbie McCleary | 1948-04-30 | Two female con artists from New York City, fleeing the law with loot from their latest scam, hide out in a small Maine town, near the Canadian border…. |
| Happy Ever After | Thady O’Heggarty | 1954-06-29 | The whole village mourns when General O’Leary, owner of a hunting estate in South Ireland, is killed in an accident. His nephew, Jasper O’Leary, takes… |
| Miss Tatlock’s Millions | Denno Noonan | 1948-11-19 | After the accidental death of an idiot heir, a stunt man is hired to impersonate him while the family gathers to determine the dispersment of the esta… |
| Cradle of Genius | 1961-09-25 | Cradle of Genius is a 1961 Irish short documentary film directed by Paul Rotha on the history of the Abbey Theatre. It was nominated for an Academy Aw… | |
| The Quiet Man | Michaleen Oge Flynn | 1952-07-21 | An American man returns to the village of his birth in Ireland, where he finds love and conflict…. |
| The Long Voyage Home | Cocky | 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…. |
| The Catered Affair | Uncle Jack Conlon | 1956-06-14 | At breakfast, Jane announces that she and Ralph are getting married the next week. All Jane and Ralph want is a small wedding with the immediate famil… |
| Two Years Before the Mast | Terence O’Feenaghty | 1946-11-22 | In 1834, Charles Stewart (Alan Ladd), the spoiled, dissolute son of a shipping magnate, is shanghaied aboard the Pilgrim, one of his father’s own ship… |
| Full Confession | Michael O’Keefe | 1939-09-08 | A Catholic priest must convince a man to step forward to save the wrong person from being sent to the electric chair…. |
| Silver City | R.R. Jarboe | 1951-12-01 | Having masterminded the hold up of his company office, a mining engineer is barred from the industry. He then sets up shop as an assayer, scheming to … |
| Corvette K-225 | Stooky | 1943-09-29 | The story of a Canadian WWII naval vessel, with a dramatic subplot concerning her first captain…. |
| Two Tickets to London | Capt. McCardle | 1943-06-14 | Accused of helping an enemy submarine, a man escapes and joins a beautiful girl in trying to find the real traitors…. |
| Tarzan’s Secret Treasure | Dennis O’Doul | 1941-12-01 | A scientific expedition happens to discover that gold exists on Tarzan’s escarpment. The villainous Medford and Vandermeer kidnap Jane and Boy to exto… |
| The Saint Strikes Back | Zipper Dyson | 1939-03-08 | Suave private detective Simon “The Saint” Templar arrives in San Francisco and meets Val, a woman whose police inspector father killed himself after b… |
| Incendiary Blonde | Michael ‘Mike’ Guinan | 1945-07-25 | Paramount’s highly-fictionalized 1945 musical biography of Texas Guinan, the Roaring ’20s New York nightclub owner and celebrity with alleged underwor… |
| Ebb Tide | Huish | 1937-11-17 | In 1890, two British expatriates, Robert Herrick and Huish, and German Captain Jakob Thorbecke, are commissioned to sail a Yankee schooner called The … |
| Bringing Up Baby | Aloysius Gogarty | 1938-02-18 | David Huxley is waiting to get a bone he needs for his museum collection. Through a series of strange circumstances, he meets Susan Vance, and the duo… |
| Pacific Liner | Britches | 1939-01-06 | An outbreak of cholera threatens a luxury liner in this surprisingly low-budget melodrama from RKO. En route from Shanghai to San Francisco, chief eng… |
| The Sea Wolf | Cooky | 1941-03-21 | Shipwrecked fugitives try to escape a brutal sea captain who’s losing his mind…. |
| The Dawn Patrol | Bott | 1938-12-24 | In 1915 France, Major Brand commands the 39th Squadron of the Royal Flying Corps. The young airmen go up in bullet-riddled “crates” and the casualty r… |
| How Green Was My Valley | Cyfartha | 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… |
| I Love a Soldier | Murphy | 1945-07-12 | During World War II in San Francisco, Eve Morgan and her single girlfriends spend their days welding ships and their nights dancing with soldiers and … |
| Four Men and a Prayer | Mulcahay | 1938-04-29 | The sons of a disgraced British officer try to clear his name…. |
| Duffy’s Tavern | Bing Crosby’s Father | 1945-09-28 | The staff of a record factory drown their sorrows at Duffy’s Tavern, while the company owner faces threats of bankruptcy…. |
| Bing Crosby: Rediscovered | 2014-12-02 | Bing Crosby was, without a doubt, the most popular and influential multi-media star of the first half of the twentieth century, pulling audiences in w… | |
| Black History: Lost Stolen, or Strayed | 1968-08-31 | Did you know that the first open-heart surgery was performed by a Black doctor, Daniel Hale Williams? Not many people did in 1968, the year this eye-o… | |
| Variety Girl | Himself | 1947-08-29 | Dozens of star and character-actor cameos and a message about the Variety Club (a show-business charity) are woven into a framework about two hopeful … |
| Marie Antoinette | Peddler (uncredited) | 1938-08-26 | The young Austrian princess Marie Antoinette is arranged to marry Louis XVI, future king of France, in a politically advantageous marriage for the riv… |
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