Barry Fitzgerald
Barry Fitzgerald | |
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| File:Barry Fitzgerald portrait.jpg | |
| Born | William Joseph Shields 10 March 1888 |
| Died | 14 January 1961 (aged 72) |
| Occupation | Actor |
| Years active | 1924–61 |
| Spouse | never married |
Barry Fitzgerald (10 March 1888 – 14 January 1961) was an Irish stage, film and television actor.[1] He won an Oscar as Best Supporting Actor for Going My Way (1944).
Life
He was born William Joseph Shields in Walworth Road, Portobello, Dublin, Ireland.[2] He was the older brother of Irish actor Arthur Shields. He went to Skerry's College, Dublin, before going on to work in the civil service,[3] while also working at the Abbey Theatre. By 1929, he turned to acting full-time. He was briefly a roommate of famed playwright Sean O'Casey[4] and starred in such plays as O'Casey's Juno and the Paycock and the premiere of The Silver Tassie.
Fitzgerald went to Hollywood to star in another O'Casey work, The Plough and the Stars (1936), directed by John Ford.[2] He had a successful Hollywood career in such films as The Long Voyage Home (1940), How Green Was My Valley (1941), And Then There Were None (1945), The Naked City (1948) and The Quiet Man (1952). Fitzgerald achieved a feat unmatched in the history of the Academy Awards: he was nominated for both the Best Actor Oscar and the Best Supporting Actor Oscar for the same performance, as "Father Fitzgibbon" in Going My Way (1944).[2] (Academy Award rules have since been changed to prevent this.) He won the Best Supporting Actor Award; an avid golfer, he later broke the head off his Oscar statue while practicing his golf swing. (During the Second World War, Oscar statues were made of plaster instead of gold, owing to wartime metal shortages.)
He returned to live in Dublin in 1959.[2]
Fitzgerald has two stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, for films at 6220 Hollywood Blvd. and for television at 7001 Hollywood Blvd.
Filmography
| Year | Film | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1929 | The Shame of Mary Boyle | The Orator | |
| 1930 | Juno and the Paycock | The Orator | |
| 1935 | Guests of the Nation | Captured of British Soldier | |
| 1936 | The Plough and the Stars | Fluther Good | |
| 1937 | Ebb Tide | Huish | |
| 1938 | Bringing Up Baby | Mr. Gogarty | |
| Four Men and a Prayer | Trooper Mulcahay | ||
| Marie Antoinette | Peddler | uncredited | |
| The Dawn Patrol | Bott | ||
| 1939 | Pacific Liner | Britches | |
| The Saint Strikes Back | Zipper Dyson | ||
| Full Confession | Michael O'Keefe | ||
| 1940 | The Long Voyage Home | Cocky | With John Wayne. |
| The San Francisco Docks | The Icky | ||
| 1941 | The Sea Wolf | Cooky | |
| How Green Was My Valley | Cyfartha | ||
| Tarzan's Secret Treasure | O'Doul | With Johnny Weissmuller. | |
| 1943 | The Amazing Mrs. Holliday | Timothy Blake | |
| Corvette K-225 | Stooky O'Meara | ||
| Two Tickets to London | Captain McCardle | ||
| 1944 | Going My Way | Father Fitzgibbon | Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor - Motion Picture New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Actor Nominated-Academy Award for Best Actor |
| I Love a Soldier | Murphy | ||
| None but the Lonely Heart | Henry Twite | ||
| 1945 | Incendiary Blonde | Michael 'Mike' Guinan | |
| Duffy's Tavern | Bing Crosby's Father | ||
| And Then There Were None | Judge Francis J. Quinncannon | ||
| The Stork Club | Jerry B. 'J.B.'/'Pop' Bates | ||
| 1946 | Two Years Before the Mast | Terrence O'Feenaghty | |
| 1947 | California | Michael Fabian | |
| Easy Come, Easy Go | Martin L. Donovan | ||
| Welcome Stranger | Dr. Joseph McRory | ||
| Variety Girl | Barry Fitzgerald | ||
| 1948 | The Naked City | Detective Lt. Dan Muldoon | |
| The Sainted Sisters | Robbie McCleary | ||
| Miss Tatlock's Millions | Denno Noonan | ||
| 1949 | Top o' the Morning | Sergeant Briany McNaughton | |
| The Story of Seabiscuit | Shawn O'Hara | ||
| 1950 | Union Station | Inspector Donnelly | |
| 1951 | Silver City | R.R. Jarboe | |
| 1952 | Ha da venì... don Calogero! | Don Calogero | |
| The Quiet Man | Michaleen Oge Flynn | With John Wayne. | |
| Lux Video Theatre | Barry Flynn | episode: The Man Who Struck It Rich | |
| 1954 | Tonight's the Night | Thady O'Heggarty | |
| 1955 | Alfred Hitchcock Presents | Harold 'Stretch' Sears | episode: Santa Claus and the Tenth Avenue Kid |
| 1956 | The Catered Affair | Uncle Jack Conlon | |
| 1958 | Rooney | Grandfather | |
| 1959 | Broth of a Boy | Patrick Farrell |
Source: "Barry Fitzgerald". IMDb. Retrieved 9 October 2013.
Radio appearances
| Year | Program | Episode/source |
|---|---|---|
| 1952 | Lux Radio Theatre | Top o' the Morning[5] |
See also
References and sources
- ^ Obituary Variety, 18 January 1961, page 70.
- ^ a b c d Boylan 1999, p. 130.
- ^ Fitzgerald, Barry - International Dictionary of Film and Filmmakers, (2000) by Anthony Slide
- ^ Allmovie Barry Fitzgerald biography
- ^ Kirby, Walter (16 March 1952). "Better Radio Programs for the Week". The Decatur Daily Review. p. 44. Retrieved 23 May 2015 – via Newspapers.com.
- Boylan, Henry (1999). A Dictionary of Irish Biography. Dublin: Gill and Macmillan. ISBN 0-7171-2945-4.
External links
- Use dmy dates from March 2011
- 1888 births
- 1961 deaths
- Best Supporting Actor Academy Award winners
- Best Supporting Actor Golden Globe (film) winners
- Burials at Deans Grange Cemetery
- Irish male film actors
- Irish male stage actors
- Male actors from Dublin (city)
- People educated at Skerry's College
- 20th-century Irish male actors