Barry Fitzgerald

Barry Fitzgerald

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.

  • Title: Barry Fitzgerald
  • Popularity: 7.185
  • Known For: Acting
  • Birthday: 1888-03-09
  • Place of Birth: Dublin, Ireland
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  • Also Known As: William Joseph Shields, Барри Фитцджеральд
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Barry Fitzgerald Movies

  • 1960
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    Cradle of Genius

    Cradle of Genius

    1 1960 HD

    Longtime playwrights and performers of the Abbey Theatre share colourful reminiscences of the national institution founded by W.B. Yeats and Lady...

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  • 1938
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    Bringing Up Baby

    Bringing Up Baby

    7.532 1938 HD

    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...

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  • 1952
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    The Quiet Man

    The Quiet Man

    7.3 1952 HD

    An American man returns to the village of his birth in Ireland, where he finds love and conflict.

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  • 1945
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    And Then There Were None

    And Then There Were None

    7 1945 HD

    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...

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  • 1948
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    The Naked City

    The Naked City

    7.182 1948 HD

    After a former model is drowned in her bathtub, Detective James Halloran and Lieutenant Dan Muldoon attempt to piece together her murder.

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  • 1941
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    The Sea Wolf

    The Sea Wolf

    7.064 1941 HD

    Shipwrecked fugitives try to escape a brutal sea captain who's losing his mind.

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  • 1941
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    Tarzan's Secret Treasure

    Tarzan's Secret Treasure

    5.7 1941 HD

    A scientific expedition happens to discover that gold exists on Tarzan's escarpment. The villainous Medford and Vandermeer kidnap Jane and Boy to...

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  • 1941
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    How Green Was My Valley

    How Green Was My Valley

    7.3 1941 HD

    A man in his fifties reminisces about his childhood growing up in a Welsh mining village at the turn of the 20th century.

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  • 1950
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    Union Station

    Union Station

    6.302 1950 HD

    Police catch a break when suspected kidnappers are spotted on a train heading towards Union Station. Police, train station security and a witness try...

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  • 1949
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    The Story of Seabiscuit

    The Story of Seabiscuit

    5.8 1949 HD

    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....

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  • 1943
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    The Amazing Mrs. Holliday

    The Amazing Mrs. Holliday

    6.4 1943 HD

    A missionary tries to outwit the U.S. government and smuggle Chinese orphans into the country.

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  • 1938
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    The Dawn Patrol

    The Dawn Patrol

    6.8 1938 HD

    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...

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  • 1944
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    Going My Way

    Going My Way

    6.73 1944 HD

    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...

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  • 1930
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    Juno and the Paycock

    Juno and the Paycock

    4.5 1930 HD

    During the Irish revolution, a family earns a big inheritance. They start leading a rich life, forgetting what the most important values of life...

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  • 1939
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    The Saint Strikes Back

    The Saint Strikes Back

    5.6 1939 HD

    Suave private detective Simon "The Saint" Templar arrives in San Francisco and meets Val, a woman whose police inspector father killed himself after...

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  • 1944
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    None But the Lonely Heart

    None But the Lonely Heart

    6.2 1944 HD

    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.

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  • 1940
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    The Long Voyage Home

    The Long Voyage Home

    6.5 1940 HD

    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.

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  • 1940
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    San Francisco Docks

    San Francisco Docks

    6 1940 HD

    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...

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  • 1956
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    The Catered Affair

    The Catered Affair

    7.1 1956 HD

    An Irish cabby in the Bronx watches his wife go overboard planning their daughter's wedding.

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  • 1945
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    The Stork Club

    The Stork Club

    5.5 1945 HD

    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...

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  • 1947
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    California

    California

    6.5 1947 HD

    "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...

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  • 1947
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    Welcome Stranger

    Welcome Stranger

    6.6 1947 HD

    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;...

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  • 1947
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    Variety Girl

    Variety Girl

    6.1 1947 HD

    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...

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  • 1945
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    Incendiary Blonde

    Incendiary Blonde

    5.1 1945 HD

    Paramount's highly-fictionalized 1945 musical biography of Texas Guinan, the Roaring '20s New York nightclub owner and celebrity with alleged...

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  • 1949
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    Top o' the Morning

    Top o' the Morning

    5.8 1949 HD

    A singing insurance investigator comes to Ireland to recover the stolen Blarney Stone...and romance the local policeman's daughter.

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  • 1936
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    The Plough and the Stars

    The Plough and the Stars

    5.6 1936 HD

    A husband clashes with his wife over his membership to the Irish citizen army during the Easter rebellion.

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  • 1958
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    Rooney

    Rooney

    5.5 1958 HD

    The life of James Ignatius Rooney, a Dublin rubbish collector during the week and a Gaelic sportsman at the weekends.

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  • 1947
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    Easy Come, Easy Go

    Easy Come, Easy Go

    1 1947 HD

    Comedy about an Irish father, who enjoys betting on horses, who keeps interfering with his daughter's romance with a serviceman.

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  • 1937
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    Ebb Tide

    Ebb Tide

    6 1937 HD

    In 1890, two British expatriates, Robert Herrick and Huish, and German Captain Jakob Thorbecke, are commissioned to sail a Yankee schooner called The...

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  • 1948
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    The Sainted Sisters

    The Sainted Sisters

    7 1948 HD

    Two female con artists from New York City, fleeing the law with money from their latest scam, hide out in a small town in Maine, near the Canadian...

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  • 1944
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    I Love a Soldier

    I Love a Soldier

    4 1944 HD

    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...

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  • 1943
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    Two Tickets to London

    Two Tickets to London

    6 1943 HD

    Accused of helping an enemy submarine, a man escapes and joins a beautiful girl in trying to find the real traitors.

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  • 1954
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    Happy Ever After

    Happy Ever After

    5.2 1954 HD

    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,...

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  • 1946
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    Two Years Before the Mast

    Two Years Before the Mast

    6.2 1946 HD

    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...

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  • 1939
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    Full Confession

    Full Confession

    4.7 1939 HD

    A Catholic priest must convince a man to step forward to save the wrong person from being sent to the electric chair.

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  • 1938
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    Four Men and a Prayer

    Four Men and a Prayer

    6.3 1938 HD

    The sons of a disgraced British officer try to clear his name.

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  • 1948
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    Miss Tatlock's Millions

    Miss Tatlock's Millions

    5.875 1948 HD

    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...

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  • 1939
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    Pacific Liner

    Pacific Liner

    5.2 1939 HD

    The S. S. Arcturus sails from Shanghai to San Francisco, and Dr. Jim Craig takes the post of ship's physician in order to be near Ann Grayson, the...

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  • 1951
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    Silver City

    Silver City

    6.5 1951 HD

    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...

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  • 1943
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    Corvette K-225

    Corvette K-225

    6.2 1943 HD

    The story of a Canadian WWII naval vessel, with a dramatic subplot concerning her first captain.

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  • 1959
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    Broth of a Boy

    Broth of a Boy

    1 1959 HD

    An Irish codger, 110, wants a piece of the action for doing a British producer's TV show.

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  • 1945
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    Duffy's Tavern

    Duffy's Tavern

    6.1 1945 HD

    The staff of a record factory drown their sorrows at Duffy's Tavern, while the company owner faces threats of bankruptcy.

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  • 1935
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    Guests of The Nation

    Guests of The Nation

    5 1935 HD

    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...

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  • 2014
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    Bing Crosby: Rediscovered

    Bing Crosby: Rediscovered

    7 2014 HD

    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...

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  • 1938
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    Marie Antoinette

    Marie Antoinette

    6.3 1938 HD

    The young Austrian princess Marie Antoinette is arranged to marry Louis XVI, future king of France, in a politically advantageous marriage for the...

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  • 1952
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    Ha da venì... don Calogero!

    Ha da venì... don Calogero!

    1 1952 HD

    A good-natured priest inherits a large sum of money from a former student at his elementary school and must decide wisely on how to use it best.

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  • 1955
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    Santa Claus and the Tenth Avenue Kid

    Santa Claus and the Tenth Avenue Kid

    1 1955 HD

    While working as a department store 'Santa Claus', a paroled convict tries to help a troubled boy.

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  • 1948
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    The Ed Sullivan Show

    The Ed Sullivan Show

    6.632 1948 HD

    The Ed Sullivan Show is an American TV variety show that originally ran on CBS from Sunday June 20, 1948 to Sunday June 6, 1971, and was hosted by...

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  • 1953
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    General Electric Theater

    General Electric Theater

    6 1953 HD

    General Electric Theater is an American anthology series hosted by Ronald Reagan that was broadcast on CBS radio and television. The series was...

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  • 1955
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    Alfred Hitchcock Presents

    Alfred Hitchcock Presents

    7.7 1955 HD

    A television anthology series hosted by Alfred Hitchcock featuring dramas, thrillers, and mysteries.

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  • 1950
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    Lux Video Theatre

    Lux Video Theatre

    6 1950 HD

    Lux Video Theatre is an American anthology series that was produced from 1950 until 1959. The series presented both comedy and drama in original...

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  • 1950
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    What's My Line?

    What's My Line?

    6.7 1950 HD

    Four panelists must determine guests' occupations - and, in the case of famous guests, while blindfolded, their identity - by asking only "yes" or...

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  • 1959
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    Play of the Week

    Play of the Week

    1 1959 HD

    This syndicated anthology series staged a different play every week covering all genres, dramas, comedies, musicals, fantasies, mysteries, et al,...

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