Know For
Acting
Gender
Male
Birthday
1888-03-09 (73 years old)
Deathday
1961-01-14
Place of Birth
Dublin, Ireland
Also known As
William Joseph Shields
Барри Фитцджеральд
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 Fitzg...
1960
as Self
1938
as Aloysius Gogarty
1952
as Michaleen Oge Flynn
1945
as Francis Quinncannon
1948
as Lt. Dan Muldoon
1941
as Cooky
1941
as Dennis O'Doul
1941
as Cyfartha
1950
as Inspector Donnelly
1949
as Shawn O'Hara
1943
as Timothy Blake
1938
as Bott
1944
as Father Fitzgibbon
1930
as The Orator
1939
as Zipper Dyson
1944
as Henry Twite
1940
as Cocky
1940
as The Icky
1956
as Uncle Jack Conlon
1945
as Jerry B. 'J.B.' / 'Pop' Bates
1947
as Michael Fabian
1947
as Dr. Joseph McRory
1947
as Barry Fitzgerald
1945
as Michael 'Mike' Guinan
1949
as Sergeant Briany McNaughton
1936
as Fluther Good
1958
as Grandfather
1947
as Martin L. Donovan
1937
as Huish
1948
as Robbie McCleary
1944
as Murphy
1943
as Capt. McCardle
1954
as Thady O'Heggarty
1946
as Terence O'Feenaghty
1939
as Michael O'Keefe
1938
as Mulcahay
1948
as Denno Noonan
1939
as Britches
1951
as R.R. Jarboe
1943
as Stooky
1959
as Patrick Farrell
1945
as Bing Crosby's Father
1935
as Captured British soldier
2014
as Self (archive footage)
1938
as Peddler (uncredited)
1952
as Don Calogero
1955
as Harold "Stretch" Sears
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