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The Catered Affair

as Uncle Jack Conlon

1956
Happy Ever After

as Thady O'Heggarty

1954
The Quiet Man

as Michaleen Oge Flynn

1952
Silver City

as R.R. Jarboe

1951
Union Station

as Inspector Donnelly

1950
The Story of Seabiscuit

as Shawn O'Hara

1949
The Naked City

as Lt. Dan Muldoon

1948
California

as Michael Fabian

1947
Two Years Before the Mast

as Terence O'Feenaghty

1946
And Then There Were None

as Francis Quinncannon

1945
Incendiary Blonde

as Michael 'Mike' Guinan

1945
The Stork Club

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

1945
Going My Way

as Father Fitzgibbon

1944
None But the Lonely Heart

as Henry Twite

1944
The Sea Wolf

as Cooky

1941
Tarzan's Secret Treasure

as Dennis O'Doul

1941
How Green Was My Valley

as Cyfartha

1941
San Francisco Docks

as The Icky

1940
The Saint Strikes Back

as Zipper Dyson

1939
Pacific Liner

as Britches

1939
Full Confession

as Michael O'Keefe

1939
The Dawn Patrol

as Bott

1938
Ebb Tide

as Huish

1937
Juno and the Paycock

as The Orator

1930
Barry Fitzgerald Barry Fitzgerald

Birthday

1888-03-10

Place of Birth

Dublin, Ireland

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 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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