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.

Фільмографія

• 1959Broth of a Boy — Patrick Farrell
• Play of the Week
• 1958Rooney — Grandfather
• 1956The Catered Affair — Jack Conlon
• 1955Santa Claus and the Tenth Avenue Kid — Harold "Stretch" Sears
• Альфред Гічкок представляє — Harold 'Stretch' Sears
• 1954Happy Ever After — Thady O'Heggarty
• General Electric Theater
• 1952Ha da venì... don Calogero! — Don Calogero
• 1952Тиха людина — Michaleen Oge Flynn
• 1951Silver City — R.R. Jarboe
• Lux Video Theatre — Barry Flynn
• 1950Union Station — Inspector Donnelly
• 1949The Story of Seabiscuit — Shawn O'Hara
• 1949Top o' the Morning — Sergeant Briany McNaughton
• 1948Miss Tatlock's Millions — Denno Noonan
• 1948The Naked City — Lt. Dan Muldoon
• 1948The Sainted Sisters — Robbie McCleary
• 1947California — Michael Fabian
• 1947Easy Come, Easy Go — Martin L. Donovan
• 1947Variety Girl — Barry Fitzgerald
• 1947Welcome Stranger — Dr. Joseph McRory
• 1946Two Years Before the Mast — Terence O'Feenaghty
• 1945And Then There Were None — Francis Quinncannon
• 1945Duffy's Tavern — Bing Crosby's Father
• 1945Incendiary Blonde — Michael 'Mike' Guinan
• 1945The Stork Club — Jerry B. 'J.B.' / 'Pop' Bates
• 1944Going My Way — Father Fitzgibbon
• 1944I Love a Soldier — Murphy
• 1944None But the Lonely Heart — Henry Twite
• 1943Corvette K-225 — Stooky
• 1943The Amazing Mrs. Holliday — Timothy Blake
• 1943Two Tickets to London — Capt. McCardle
• 1941Tarzan's Secret Treasure — Dennis O'Doul
• 1941The Sea Wolf — Cooky
• 1941Якою зеленою була моя долина — Cyfartha
• 1940San Francisco Docks — The Icky
• 1940The Long Voyage Home — Cocky
• 1939Full Confession — Michael O'Keefe
• 1939Pacific Liner — Britches
• 1939The Saint Strikes Back — Zipper Dyson
• 1938Four Men and a Prayer — Mulcahay
• 1938Marie Antoinette — Peddler (uncredited)
• 1938The Dawn Patrol — Bott
• 1938Виховання малюка — Mr. Gogarty
• 1937Ebb Tide — Huish
• 1936The Plough and the Stars — Fluther Good
• 1935Guests of The Nation — Captured British soldier
• 1930Juno and the Paycock — The Orator

Ток-шоу, премії та інші появи (4)

• 2014Bing Crosby: Rediscovered — Self (archive footage)
• 1960Cradle of Genius — Self
• What's My Line? — Self
• The Ed Sullivan Show — Self