Cast
Barry Fitzgerald
1888 – 1961
- Active years (films on this site)
- 1938–1952
- Schools and movements
- Classical HollywoodFrench Poetic Realism and Classical CinemaVisual Comedy
Directors worked with
Biography
William Joseph Shields, known professionally as Barry Fitzgerald, was an Irish stage, film, and television actor. In a career spanning almost forty years, he appeared in such notable films as Bringing Up Baby (1938), The Long Voyage Home (1940), How Green Was My Valley (1941), The Sea Wolf (1941), Going My Way (1944), None but the Lonely Heart (1944), and The Quiet Man (1952). For Going My Way, he won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor and was simultaneously nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor for the same performance. In 2020, he was listed at number 11 on The Irish Times list of Ireland's greatest film actors.
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Awards and honours
International
- Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor 1945
- star on Hollywood Walk of Fame
5 films on this site
- Bringing Up Baby 1938 · Howard Hawks · IMDb 7.8 · Cast
- How Green Was My Valley 1941 · John Ford · IMDb 7.7 · Cast
- Going My Way 1944 · Leo McCarey · IMDb 7.0 · Cast
- And Then There Were None 1945 · René Clair · IMDb 7.3 · Cast
- The Quiet Man 1952 · John Ford · IMDb 7.7 · Cast