Barry Fitzgerald

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Barry Fitzgerald
Born William Joseph Shields
March 10, 1888
Dublin, Ireland
Died January 14, 1961 (aged 72)
Dublin, Ireland

Barry Fitzgerald (March 10, 1888 – January 14, 1961) was an Academy Award winning Irish stage, film and television actor.

He was born William Joseph Shields in Dublin, Ireland. He is the older brother of Irish actor Arthur Shields. He was a civil servant, 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[1] 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. 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). (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.)

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

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Awards
Preceded by
Charles Coburn
for The More the Merrier		 Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor
1944
for Going My Way		 Succeeded by
James Dunn
for A Tree Grows In Brooklyn
Preceded by
Paul Lukas
for Watch on the Rhine		 NYFCC Award for Best Actor
1944
for Going My Way		 Succeeded by
Ray Milland
for The Lost Weekend
Preceded by
Akim Tamiroff
for For Whom the Bell Tolls		 Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor - Motion Picture
1945
for Going My Way		 Succeeded by
J. Carrol Naish
for A Medal for Benny

[edit] References

  1. ^ All Movie Guide Barry Fitzgerald biography

[edit] External links


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Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor

Donald Crisp (1941) · Van Heflin (1942) · Charles Coburn (1943) · Barry Fitzgerald (1944) · James Dunn (1945) · Harold Russell (1946) · Edmund Gwenn (1947) · Walter Huston (1948) · Dean Jagger (1949) George Sanders (1950) · Karl Malden (1951) · Anthony Quinn (1952) · Frank Sinatra (1953) · Edmond O'Brien (1954) · Jack Lemmon (1955) · Anthony Quinn (1956) · Red Buttons (1957) · Burl Ives (1958) · Hugh Griffith (1959) · Peter Ustinov (1960)

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NAME Fitzgerald, Barry
ALTERNATIVE NAMES
SHORT DESCRIPTION Actor
DATE OF BIRTH March 10, 1888
PLACE OF BIRTH Dublin, Ireland
DATE OF DEATH January 14, 1961
PLACE OF DEATH


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