Barry Fitzgerald
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| Born | William Joseph Shields March 10, 1888 Dublin, Ireland |
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| Died | January 14, 1961 (aged 72) Dublin, Ireland |
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Barry Fitzgerald (March 10, 1888 – January 14, 1961) was an Academy Award winning Irish stage, film and television actor.
He was born William Joseph Shields in Dublin, Ireland. He is the older brother of Irish actor Arthur Shields. He was a civil servant, while also working at the Abbey Theatre. By 1929, he turned to acting full-time. He was briefly a roommate of famed playwright Sean O'Casey[1] and starred in such plays as O'Casey's Juno and the Paycock, a role he later recreated in his screen debut in 1930 for Alfred Hitchcock's film adaptation.
Fitzgerald went to Hollywood to star in another O'Casey work, The Plough and the Stars (1936), directed by John Ford. He had a successful Hollywood career in such films as The Long Voyage Home (1940), How Green Was My Valley (1941), And Then There Were None (1945), and The Quiet Man (1952). Fitzgerald achieved a feat unmatched in the history of the Academy Awards: he was nominated for both the Best Actor Oscar and the Best Supporting Actor Oscar for the same performance, as "Father Fitzgibbon" in Going My Way (1944). (Academy Award rules have since been changed to prevent this.) He won the Best Supporting Actor Award; an avid golfer, he later broke the head off his Oscar statue while practicing his golf swing. (During World War II, Oscar statues were made of plaster instead of gold, owing to wartime metal shortages.)
Fitzgerald has two stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, for movies at 6220 Hollywood Blvd. and for television at 7001 Hollywood Blvd.
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[edit] Partial filmography
- Juno and the Paycock (1930)
- The Plough and the Stars (1936)
- Bringing Up Baby (1938)
- Four Men and a Prayer (1938)
- The Dawn Patrol (1938)
- The Long Voyage Home (1940)
- The Sea Wolf (1941)
- How Green Was My Valley (1941)
- Tarzan's Secret Treasure (1941)
- Corvette K-225 (1943)
- Going My Way (1944)
- None but the Lonely Heart (1944)
- Incendiary Blonde (1945)
- And Then There Were None (1945)
- Two Years Before the Mast (1946)
- The Naked City (1948)
- The Story of Seabiscuit (1949)
- Union Station (1950)
- The Quiet Man (1952)
- The Catered Affair (1956)
[edit] See also
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| Preceded by Charles Coburn for The More the Merrier |
Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor 1944 for Going My Way |
Succeeded by James Dunn for A Tree Grows In Brooklyn |
| Preceded by Paul Lukas for Watch on the Rhine |
NYFCC Award for Best Actor 1944 for Going My Way |
Succeeded by Ray Milland for The Lost Weekend |
| Preceded by Akim Tamiroff for For Whom the Bell Tolls |
Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor - Motion Picture 1945 for Going My Way |
Succeeded by J. Carrol Naish for A Medal for Benny |
[edit] References
- ^ All Movie Guide Barry Fitzgerald biography
[edit] External links
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| NAME | Fitzgerald, Barry |
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| SHORT DESCRIPTION | Actor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 10, 1888 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Dublin, Ireland |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 14, 1961 |
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