Barry Fitzgerald

Infobox actor
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name = Barry Fitzgerald


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birthname = William Joseph Shields
birthdate = 10 March, 1888
location = Dublin, Ireland
deathdate = death date and age|1961|1|14|1888|3|10
deathplace = Dublin, Ireland
academyawards = Best Supporting Actor
1944 "Going My Way"
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Barry Fitzgerald (10 March 1888 - 14 January 1961) was an Academy Award winning Irish stage, film and television actor.

Life

He was born William Joseph Shields in Walworth Road, Portobello, Dublin, Ireland.Boylan 1999, p. 130.] He is the older brother of Irish actor Arthur Shields. He went to Skerry's College, Dublin, before going on to work in the civil service [ [http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_gx5212/is_2000/ai_n19128522 Fitzgerald, Barry - International Dictionary of Film and Filmmakers, (2000) by Anthony Slide] ] , 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 [Allmovie Barry Fitzgerald biography] and starred in such plays as O'Casey's "Juno and the Paycock", a role he later recreated in his screen debut in 1930 for Alfred Hitchcock's film adaptation.

Fitzgerald went to Hollywood to star in another O'Casey work, "The Plough and the Stars" (1936), directed by John Ford.Boylan 1999, p. 130.] 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), 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).Boylan 1999, p. 130.] (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 World War II, Oscar statues were made of plaster instead of gold, owing to wartime metal shortages.)

He returned to live in Dublin in 1959.Boylan 1999, p. 130.]

Fitzgerald has two stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, for movies at 6220 Hollywood Blvd. and for television at 7001 Hollywood Blvd.

Partial filmography

*"Juno and the Paycock" (1930)
*"The Plough and the Stars" (1936)
*"Bringing Up Baby" (1938)
*"Four Men and a Prayer" (1938)
*"The Dawn Patrol" (1938)
*"The Long Voyage Home" (1940)
*"The Sea Wolf" (1941)
*"How Green Was My Valley" (1941)
*"Tarzan's Secret Treasure" (1941)
*"Corvette K-225" (1943)
*"Going My Way" (1944)
*"None but the Lonely Heart" (1944)
*"Incendiary Blonde" (1945)
*"And Then There Were None" (1945)
*"Two Years Before the Mast" (1946)
*"The Naked City" (1948)
*"The Story of Seabiscuit" (1949)
*"Union Station" (1950)
*"The Quiet Man" (1952)
*"The Catered Affair" (1956)

ee also

* List of people on stamps of Ireland

References and Sources

*cite book |title= A Dictionary of Irish Biography |last= Boylan|first= Henry |year=1999 |publisher= Gill and Macmillan|location= Dublin|isbn= 0-7171-2945-4

External links

*imdb name | id=00280178|name=Barry Fitzgerald
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NAME= Fitzgerald, Barry
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SHORT DESCRIPTION= Actor
DATE OF BIRTH= March 10 1888
PLACE OF BIRTH= Dublin, Ireland
DATE OF DEATH= January 14 1961
PLACE OF DEATH= Dublin, Ireland