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.
The Quiet Man
as Michaleen Oge FlynnAn American man returns to the village of his birth in Ireland, where he finds love and conflict.
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Bringing Up Baby
as Aloysius GogartyDavid Huxley is waiting to get a bone he needs for his museum collection. Through a series of...
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How Green Was My Valley
as CyfarthaA man in his fifties reminisces about his childhood growing up in a Welsh mining village at the...
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The Naked City
as Lt. Dan MuldoonThe Naked City portrays the police investigation that follows the murder of a young model. A...
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And Then There Were None
as Francis QuinncannonTen strangers are summoned to a remote island and while they are waiting for the mysterious host...
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Going My Way
as Father FitzgibbonYouthful Father Chuck O'Malley led a colorful life of sports, song, and romance before joining...
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The Dawn Patrol
as BottIn 1915 France, Major Brand commands the 39th Squadron of the Royal Flying Corps. The young...
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Marie Antoinette
as Peddler (uncredited)The young Austrian princess Marie Antoinette is arranged to marry Louis XVI, future king of...
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Juno and the Paycock
as The OratorDuring the Irish revolution, a family earns a big inheritance. They start leading a rich life,...
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Tarzan's Secret Treasure
as Dennis O'DoulA scientific expedition happens to discover that gold exists on Tarzan's escarpment. The...
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The Long Voyage Home
as CockyThe crew of the merchant ship Glencairn hope to survive a transatlantic crossing during World...
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The Saint Strikes Back
as Zipper DysonSuave private detective Simon "The Saint" Templar arrives in San Francisco and meets Val, a...
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The Catered Affair
as Uncle Jack ConlonAn Irish cabby in the Bronx watches his wife go overboard planning their daughter's wedding.
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The Sea Wolf
as CookyShipwrecked fugitives try to escape a brutal sea captain who's losing his mind.
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California
as Michael Fabian"Wicked" Lily Bishop joins a wagon train to California, led by Michael Fabian and Johnny Trumbo,...
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The Plough and the Stars
as Fluther GoodA husband clashes with his wife over his membership to the Irish citizen army during the Easter...
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The Amazing Mrs. Holliday
as Timothy BlakeA missionary tries to outwit the U.S. government and smuggle Chinese orphans into the country.
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Silver City
as R.R. JarboeHaving masterminded the hold up of his company office, a mining engineer is barred from the...
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Four Men and a Prayer
as MulcahayThe sons of a disgraced British officer try to clear his name.
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None But the Lonely Heart
as Henry TwiteWhen an itinerant reluctantly returns home to help his sickly mother run her shop, they're both...
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Incendiary Blonde
as Michael 'Mike' GuinanParamount's highly-fictionalized 1945 musical biography of Texas Guinan, the Roaring '20s New...
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Duffy's Tavern
as Bing Crosby's FatherThe staff of a record factory drown their sorrows at Duffy's Tavern, while the company owner...
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Two Years Before the Mast
as Terence O'FeenaghtyIn 1834, Charles Stewart (Alan Ladd), the spoiled, dissolute son of a shipping magnate, is...
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Welcome Stranger
as Dr. Joseph McRoryCrusty Dr. McRory of Fallbridge, Maine, hires his vacation replacement sight unseen. Alas, he...
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Pacific Liner
as BritchesAn outbreak of cholera threatens a luxury liner in this surprisingly low-budget melodrama from...
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Corvette K-225
as StookyThe story of a Canadian WWII naval vessel, with a dramatic subplot concerning her first captain.
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Bing Crosby: Rediscovered
as Self (archive footage)Bing Crosby was, without a doubt, the most popular and influential multi-media star of the first...
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The Stork Club
as Jerry B. 'J.B.' / 'Pop' BatesDirector Hal Walker's 1945 musical comedy stars Betty Hutton as a hat-check girl at New York...
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Variety Girl
as Barry FitzgeraldDozens of star and character-actor cameos and a message about the Variety Club (a show-business...
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The Story of Seabiscuit
as Shawn O'HaraHorse trainer Shawn O'Hara and his lovely niece, Margaret, come to America to escape the memory...
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Union Station
as Inspector DonnellyPolice catch a break when suspected kidnappers are spotted on a train heading towards Union...
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San Francisco Docks
as The IckyLongshoreman Johnny Barnes is in love with Kitty Tracy, barmaid at her father's waterfront...
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Easy Come, Easy Go
as Martin L. DonovanComedy about an Irish father, who enjoys betting on horses, who keeps interfering with his...
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Ebb Tide
as HuishIn 1890, two British expatriates, Robert Herrick and Huish, and German Captain Jakob Thorbecke,...
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Happy Ever After
as Thady O'HeggartyThe whole village mourns when General O'Leary, owner of a hunting estate in South Ireland, is...
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Top o' the Morning
as Sergeant Briany McNaughtonA singing insurance investigator comes to Ireland to recover the stolen Blarney Stone...and...
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The Sainted Sisters
as Robbie McClearyTwo female con artists from New York City, fleeing the law with money from their latest scam,...
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Two Tickets to London
as Capt. McCardleAccused of helping an enemy submarine, a man escapes and joins a beautiful girl in trying to...
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Miss Tatlock's Millions
as Denno NoonanAfter the accidental death of an idiot heir, a stunt man is hired to impersonate him while the...
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Rooney
as GrandfatherThe life of James Ignatius Rooney, a Dublin rubbish collector during the week and a Gaelic...
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Full Confession
as Michael O'KeefeA Catholic priest must convince a man to step forward to save the wrong person from being sent...
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Guests of The Nation
as Captured British soldierDuring the Irish War of Independence in 1921, a pair of IRA soldiers are ordered to guard two...
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I Love a Soldier
as MurphyDuring World War II in San Francisco, Eve Morgan and her single girlfriends spend their days...
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Cradle of Genius
as uncreditedCradle of Genius is a 1961 Irish short documentary film directed by Paul Rotha on the history of...
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What's My Line?
as Self - Mystery GuestFour panelists must determine guests' occupations - and, in the case of famous guests, while...
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The Ed Sullivan Show
as SelfThe Ed Sullivan Show is an American TV variety show that originally ran on CBS from Sunday June...
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Alfred Hitchcock Presents
as Harold 'Stretch' SearsA television anthology series hosted by Alfred Hitchcock featuring dramas, thrillers, and mysteries.
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Lux Video Theatre
as Barry FlynnLux Video Theatre is an American anthology series that was produced from 1950 until 1959. The...
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Play of the Week
as uncreditedThis syndicated anthology series staged a different play every week covering all genres, dramas,...
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General Electric Theater
as uncreditedGeneral Electric Theater is an American anthology series hosted by Ronald Reagan that was...
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