Barry Fitzgerald

Personal Info

Know For

Acting

Gender

Male

Birthday

1888-03-09 (73 years old)

Deathday

1961-01-14

Place of Birth

Dublin, Ireland

Barry Fitzgerald

Biography

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...

Acting

1960

1938

Bringing Up Baby

as Aloysius Gogarty

1952

The Quiet Man

as Michaleen Oge Flynn

1945

And Then There Were None

as Francis Quinncannon

1948

The Naked City

as Lt. Dan Muldoon

1941

The Sea Wolf

as Cooky

1941

Tarzan's Secret Treasure

as Dennis O'Doul

1950

Union Station

as Inspector Donnelly

1949

1943

1938

1944

Going My Way

as Father Fitzgibbon

1930

1939

The Saint Strikes Back

as Zipper Dyson

1944

1940

1956

The Catered Affair

as Uncle Jack Conlon

1945

The Stork Club

as Jerry B. 'J.B.' / 'Pop' Bates

1947

California

as Michael Fabian

1947

Welcome Stranger

as Dr. Joseph McRory

1947

Variety Girl

as Barry Fitzgerald

1945

Incendiary Blonde

as Michael 'Mike' Guinan

1949

Top o' the Morning

as Sergeant Briany McNaughton

1936

1958

Rooney

as Grandfather

1947

Easy Come, Easy Go

as Martin L. Donovan

1937

Ebb Tide

as Huish

1948

The Sainted Sisters

as Robbie McCleary

1944

1943

Two Tickets to London

as Capt. McCardle

1954

Happy Ever After

as Thady O'Heggarty

1946

Two Years Before the Mast

as Terence O'Feenaghty

1939

Full Confession

as Michael O'Keefe

1938

1948

1939

Pacific Liner

as Britches

1951

Silver City

as R.R. Jarboe

1943

1959

Broth of a Boy

as Patrick Farrell

1945

Duffy's Tavern

as Bing Crosby's Father

1935

Guests of The Nation

as Captured British soldier

2014

Bing Crosby: Rediscovered

as Self (archive footage)

1938

Marie Antoinette

as Peddler (uncredited)

1952

1955

Santa Claus and the Tenth Avenue Kid

as Harold "Stretch" Sears

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