
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.

Alfred Hitchcock Presents

赤ちゃん教育

静かなる男

わが谷は緑なりき

The Naked City

The Sea Wolf

The Catered Affair

そして誰もいなくなった

The Sainted Sisters

Bing Crosby: Rediscovered

What's My Line?

California

The Dawn Patrol

エド・サリヴァン・ショー

The Amazing Mrs. Holliday

Going My Way

The Long Voyage Home

Welcome Stranger

Marie Antoinette

Union Station

General Electric Theater

孤独な心

Four Men and a Prayer

Silver City

Variety Girl

Two Years Before the Mast

Corvette K-225

Duffy's Tavern

San Francisco Docks

Ebb Tide

Two Tickets to London

Miss Tatlock's Millions

Tarzan's Secret Treasure

The Story of Seabiscuit

The Plough and the Stars

The Saint Strikes Back

Rooney

Top o' the Morning

Happy Ever After

Pacific Liner

I Love a Soldier

Guests of The Nation

The Stork Club

Full Confession

Incendiary Blonde

Juno and the Paycock

Cradle of Genius

Easy Come, Easy Go

Ha da venì... don Calogero!

Santa Claus and the Tenth Avenue Kid

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