Barry Fitzgerald
Born in Dublin, Ireland — Mar 09 1888• Died Jan 14 1961
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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…
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Barry Fitzgerald's Credits
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What's My Line?
Self
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
Harold 'Stretch' Sears
Lux Video Theatre
Barry Flynn
Play of the Week
The Quiet Man
Michaleen Oge Flynn
General Electric Theater
Bringing Up Baby
Aloysius Gogarty
How Green Was My Valley
Cyfartha
Variety Girl
Barry Fitzgerald
The Naked City
Lt. Dan Muldoon
The Dawn Patrol
Bott
California
Michael Fabian
Going My Way
Father Fitzgibbon
And Then There Were None
Francis Quinncannon
Union Station
Inspector Donnelly
Corvette K-225
Stooky
The Sainted Sisters
Robbie McCleary
Rooney
Grandfather
Silver City
R.R. Jarboe
The Sea Wolf
Cooky
Marie Antoinette
Peddler (uncredited)
Four Men and a Prayer
Mulcahay
The Catered Affair
Uncle Jack Conlon
The Long Voyage Home
Cocky
Happy Ever After
Thady O'Heggarty
Two Tickets to London
Capt. McCardle
Juno and the Paycock
The Orator
The Story of Seabiscuit
Shawn O'Hara
Bing Crosby: Rediscovered
Self (archive footage)
Duffy's Tavern
Bing Crosby's Father
Easy Come, Easy Go
Martin L. Donovan
Incendiary Blonde
Michael 'Mike' Guinan
Tarzan's Secret Treasure
Dennis O'Doul
The Stork Club
Jerry B. 'J.B.' / 'Pop' Bates
The Amazing Mrs. Holliday
Timothy Blake
Pacific Liner
Britches
I Love a Soldier
Murphy
Ebb Tide
Huish
The Saint Strikes Back
Zipper Dyson
San Francisco Docks
The Icky
Ha da venì... don Calogero!
Don Calogero
Two Years Before the Mast
Terence O'Feenaghty
Miss Tatlock's Millions
Denno Noonan
Top o' the Morning
Sergeant Briany McNaughton
None But the Lonely Heart
Henry Twite
The Plough and the Stars
Fluther Good
Welcome Stranger
Dr. Joseph McRory
Santa Claus and the Tenth Avenue Kid
Harold "Stretch" Sears
Full Confession
Michael O'Keefe
Guests of The Nation
Captured British soldier
Cradle of Genius
Self
Broth of a Boy
Patrick Farrell