Barry Fitzgerald

Barry Fitzgerald

Acting 1888-03-09 Dublin, Ireland

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.

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2014 Self (archive footage)
1960 Self
1959 Patrick Farrell
1958 Grandfather
1956 Uncle Jack Conlon
1955 Harold "Stretch" Sears
1955 Harold 'Stretch' Sears
1954 Thady O'Heggarty
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1952 Michaleen Oge Flynn
1952 Don Calogero
1951 R.R. Jarboe
1950 Inspector Donnelly
1950 Barry Flynn
1949 Shawn O'Hara
1949 Sergeant Briany McNaughton
1948 Lt. Dan Muldoon
1948 Robbie McCleary
1948 Denno Noonan
1948 Self
1947 Michael Fabian
1947 Barry Fitzgerald
1947 Dr. Joseph McRory
1947 Martin L. Donovan
1946 Terence O'Feenaghty
1945 Francis Quinncannon
1945 Jerry B. 'J.B.' / 'Pop' Bates
1945 Michael 'Mike' Guinan
1945 Bing Crosby's Father
1944 Father Fitzgibbon
1944 Henry Twite
1944 Murphy
1943 Timothy Blake
1943 Capt. McCardle
1943 Stooky
1941 Cooky
1941 Dennis O'Doul
1941 Cyfartha
1940 Cocky
1940 The Icky
1939 Zipper Dyson
1939 Michael O'Keefe
1939 Britches
1938 Aloysius Gogarty
1938 Bott
1938 Mulcahay
1938 Peddler (uncredited)
1937 Huish
1936 Fluther Good
1935 Captured British soldier
1930 The Orator