Arthur Shields
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Arthur Shields (15 February 1896 - 27 April 1970) was an Irish stage and film actor. Born into an Irish Protestant family in Portobello, Dublin, he started acting in the Abbey Theatre when still a young man. He was the younger brother of actor Barry Fitzgerald. An Irish nationalist, he fought in the Easter Uprising of 1916. He was captured and was interned in Frongoch, North Wales. He afterwards returned to the Abbey theatre. In 1936 John Ford brought him to the United States to act in a film version of The Plough and the Stars. He later returned to the U.S. and for health reasons, he decided to reside in California. He died at his home in Santa Barbara, California, aged 74. Some of his memorable roles were in John Ford films. Shields portrayed the Reverend Playfair in Ford's The Quiet Man, opposite John Wayne, Maureen O'Hara and his brother, Barry Fitzgerald. He played Dr. Laughlin in She Wore a Yellow Ribbon with Wayne and Joanne Dru, and appeared yet again with Wayne and Barry Fitzgerald in Ford's Long Voyage Home. His other films include: Little Nellie Kelly, The Keys of the Kingdom, The Fabulous Dorseys, Gallant Journey, The Shocking Miss Pilgrim, Drums Along the Mohawk, Lady Godiva, National Velvet and The River. Description above from the Wikipedia article Arthur Shields, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia
The Quiet Man
as Rev. Cyril 'Snuffy' PlayfairAn American man returns to the village of his birth in Ireland, where he finds love and conflict.
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River of No Return
as Minister at Tent City (uncredited)An itinerant farmer and his young son help a heart-of-gold saloon singer search for her...
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How Green Was My Valley
as Mr. ParryA man in his fifties reminisces about his childhood growing up in a Welsh mining village at the...
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Lassie Come Home
as AndrewHard times come for the Carraclough family and they are forced to sell their dog, Lassie, to the...
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She Wore a Yellow Ribbon
as Dr. O'LaughlinOn the eve of retirement, Captain Nathan Brittles takes out a last patrol to stop an impending...
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National Velvet
as Mr. HallamMi Taylor is a young wanderer and opportunist who finds himself in the quiet English countryside...
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Drums Along the Mohawk
as Reverend RosenkrantzAlbany, New York, 1776. After marrying, Gil and Lana travel north to settle on a small farm in...
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Jack and the Beanstalk
as Patrick the Harp (uncredited)A young boy trades the family cow for magic beans. Ascending the beanstalk with the butcher who...
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The Black Swan
as The Bishop (uncredited)When notorious pirate Henry Morgan is made governor of Jamaica, he enlists the help of some of...
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Gentleman Jim
as Father BurkeAs bare-knuckled boxing enters the modern era, brash extrovert Jim Corbett uses new rules and...
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The Sign of the Cross
as Chaplain Costello (1944 Re-Release Prologue) (uncredited)After burning Rome, Emperor Nero decides to blame the Christians, and issues the edict that they...
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The Keys of the Kingdom
as Fr. Fitzgerald, Dean at HolywellA young priest, Father Chisholm is sent to China to establish a Catholic parish among the...
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The King and Four Queens
as PadreOpportunistic con man Dan Kehoe ingratiates himself with the cantankerous mother of four outlaws...
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The People Against O'Hara
as Mr. O'HaraA defense attorney jeopardizes his career to save his client.
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South Sea Woman
as 'Jimmy-legs' DonovanMarine Sergeant James O'Hearn is being tried at the San Diego Marine base for desertion, theft,...
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Apache Drums
as Reverend GriffinA gambler is thrown out of a western town, but returns when the town is suddenly threatened by a...
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The White Cliffs of Dover
as Benson (uncredited)American Susan travels with her father to England for a vacation. Invited to a society ball,...
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The River
as Mr. JohnDirector Jean Renoir’s entrancing first color feature—shot entirely on location in India—is a...
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The Valley of Decision
as CallahanMary Rafferty comes from a poor family of steel mill workers in 19th Century Pittsburgh. Her...
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Three Strangers
as ProsecutorOn the eve of the Chinese New Year, three strangers, Crystal Shackleford, married to a wealthy...
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Tarzan and the Slave Girl
as Dr. E.E. CampbellThe Lionians, a tribe of lion worshippers, make a desperate attempt to find a cure for the...
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World for Ransom
as Sean O'ConnorIn Singapore, a private detective and the British authorities are on the trail of a crime...
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Above Suspicion
as Walmer Hotel Porter (Uncredited)Two newlyweds spy on the Nazis for the British Secret Service during their honeymoon in Europe.
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Madame Curie
as Businessman (uncredited)Poor physics student Marie is studying at the Sorbonne in 1890s Paris. One of the few women...
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Never Say Goodbye
as McCarthy (uncredited)Phil and Ellen Gayley have been divorced for a year, and their 7-year old daughter, Flip, is...
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Lady Scarface
as Matt WillisA Chicago gang led by Slade carries out an audacious brokerage robbery. Lieutenant Bill Mason...
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The Long Voyage Home
as DonkeymanThe crew of the merchant ship Glencairn hope to survive a transatlantic crossing during World...
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The Gay Falcon
as Inspector Mike WaldeckHaving forsaken the detective business for the safer confines of personal insurance, Gay...
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Main Street to Broadway
as Actor in Fantasy SequenceIn New York, a surly, down-on-his-heels playwright meets a country girl who's giving up trying...
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Lady Godiva of Coventry
as InnkeeperFictionalized account of events leading up the famous nude ride (alas, her hair covers...
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This Above All
as Hospital ChaplainIn 1940 England, aristocratic Prudence Cathaway alarms her snobbish parents by joining the WAF...
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Red Light
as Father RedmondNick Cherney, in prison for embezzling from Torno Freight Co., sees a chance to get back at...
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The Fabulous Dorseys
as Thomas Dorsey Sr.The story of Tommy and Jimmy Dorsey from their boyhood in Pennsylvania through their rise, their...
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Youth Runs Wild
as Mr. DunlopThe teens of a defense-plant town hop on the road to juvenile delinquency while their parents...
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Sealed Cargo
as Kevin DolanA Newfoundland fishingboat comes to the aid of a wrecked Danish sailing ship and tows it to a...
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Daughter of Dr. Jekyll
as Dr. LomasA young woman discovers she is the daughter of the infamous Dr. Jekyll, and begins to believe...
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The Plough and the Stars
as Padraic PearseA husband clashes with his wife over his membership to the Irish citizen army during the Easter...
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Seven Keys to Baldpate
as Prof. BoltonWriter Kenneth Magee has bet that he can finish a story at rural resort Baldpate Inn, now closed...
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Challenge to Lassie
as Dr. LeeWhen Lassie's master dies, an old friend tries to convince a judge that the dog's life should be...
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The Verdict
as Rev. HolbrookAfter an innocent man is executed in a case he was responsible for, a Scotland Yard...
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Roughly Speaking
as Minister (uncredited)In the 1920s, enterprising Louise Randall is determined to succeed in a man's world. Despite...
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Little Nellie Kelly
as Timothy FogartyNellie Kelly, the daughter of Irish immigrants, patches up differences between her father and...
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Tap Roots
as Reverend KirklandSet at the beginning of the Civil War, Tap Roots is all about a county in Mississippi which...
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Enchanted Island
as Jimmy DooleyTwo 19th-century sailors jump ship only to discover their tropical paradise is a cannibal...
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The Corn Is Green
as Glyn ThomasWhen a teacher reads an essay written by Morgan Evans, one of the boys, moved by his rough...
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The Man from Down Under
as Father PolycarpAn Australian blowhard raises two orphaned children as his own in the years leading up to WWII.
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Fighting Father Dunne
as Michael O'DonnellA dedicated priest tries to reform a group of homeless boys in turn-of-the-century St. Louis.
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Scandal at Scourie
as Father ReillyAfter their orphanage burns down, a group of children are being transported west by train to...
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Phantoms, Inc.
as Dr. Rupert TrykelThis Crime Does Not Pay entry focuses on fake spiritualists. A mother is worried about her son,...
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Gallant Journey
as Father KentonDirector William A. Wellman adds another to his long line of salutes-to-aviation films in this...
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The Loves of Edgar Allan Poe
as Griswald (uncredited)Biography of Edgar Allan Poe and the women in his life.
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The Barefoot Mailman
as Ben TitusSylvanus Hurley is a swindler who's been swindled: he's been given a deed to a large plot of...
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The Shocking Miss Pilgrim
as Michael MichaelIn the late 1800s, Miss Pilgrim, a young stenographer, or typewriter, becomes the first female...
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Confirm or Deny
as Jeff, Blind TypistNewsman Mitch and teletype operator Jennifer, whose job is to see he doesn't send inappropriate...
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The Pigeon That Took Rome
as Monsignor O'TooleAn American Infantry officer assigned to a cloak-and-dagger role in Rome uses homing pigeons for...
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The Hardy Boys: The Mystery of the Applegate Treasure
as Boles - Ex-GardenerFrank and Joe Hardy are the sons of Fenton Hardy, a famous private detective. Finding everyday...
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The Fighting O'Flynn
as DooleyA swashbuckling Irishman opposes French agents during the Napoleonic wars.
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My Own True Love
as IversonFollowing World War II, a woman tries to help her fiance understand his son's traumatic...
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Nightmare
as SergeantAn ex-gambler helps a beautiful widow, and becomes involved with a murder, secret agents, and...
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For the Love of Mike
as Father WalshAn orphan trains a racehorse so he can win the money to build a new church.
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Dr. Renault's Secret
as Inspector Duval (uncredited)A remake of the 1927 horror film "The Wizard". Dr. Larry Forbes arrives in a remote French...
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The Adventure of the Speckled Band
as The Bookshop ManSherlock Holmes gets the clues he needs to solve a murder, and to prevent another one from...
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Pride of the Blue Grass
as WilsonA girl owns a horse, and hires a boy as a trainer. The horse enters a race and is injured. The...
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Pacific Rendezvous
as Prof. Harvey LessmoreA code expert working for Naval Intelligence is assigned to decode enemy messages despite his...
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Knocknagow
as Phil LahyThe agent of an absentee landlord resorts to underhand means in order to evict tenants from land...
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Too Young to Know
as Mr. EnrightA returning GI searches for the wife who left him and gave away their son.
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Easy Come, Easy Go
as Timothy Mike DonovanComedy about an Irish father, who enjoys betting on horses, who keeps interfering with his...
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Blue Blood
as Tim DonovanAn out of work racehorse trainer is adopted by the daughters of a wealthy breeder and trains a...
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Perry Mason
as Dr. George BarnesThe cases of master criminal defense attorney Perry Mason and his staff who handled the most...
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Bonanza
as DennisThe High-Sierra adventures of Ben Cartwright and his sons as they run and defend their ranch...
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Bat Masterson
as Dana RugglesBat Masterson is an American Western television series which showed a fictionalized account of...
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Maverick
as uncreditedThe Maverick boys - Bret, Bart, Beau and Brent - are a clan of well-dressed dandies, gamblers...
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Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre
as JasparDick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre, sometimes simply called Zane Grey Theatre, is an American...
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Wagon Train
as Judge TremayneThe series initially starred veteran movie supporting actor Ward Bond as the wagon master, later...
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Rawhide
as uncreditedThe tale of trail boss Gil Favor and his trusty foreman Rowdy Yates as they drives cattle across...
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Rawhide
as Sam CartwrightThe tale of trail boss Gil Favor and his trusty foreman Rowdy Yates as they drives cattle across...
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One Step Beyond
as Simon LockhartAlcoa Presents: One Step Beyond is an American anthology series created by Merwin Gerard. The...
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The Millionaire
as J. Peveril 'Pev' JohnsonAn anthology series that explored the ways sudden and unexpected wealth changed life for better...
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Omnibus
as uncreditedOmnibus is an American, commercially sponsored, educational television series.
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The Life Of Riley
as Mr. WinkleyRiley worked in an aircraft plant in California, but viewers usually saw him at home, cheerfully...
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Play of the Week
as MonsignorThis syndicated anthology series staged a different play every week covering all genres, dramas,...
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The Hardy Boys
as BolesThe sons of the great detective Fenton Hardy, Frank and Joe are eager to impress their father...
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