Barry Fitzgerald

Barry Fitzgerald

Born	William Joseph Shields (1888-03-10)10 March 1888 Dublin, County Dublin, Ireland
Died	14 January 1961(1961-01-14) (aged 72) Dublin, County Dublin, Ireland
Occupation	Actor
Years active	1924–61
Spouse(s)	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 1
Filmography 2
Radio appearances 3
See also 4
References and sources 5
External links 6

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.

Birthplace of Barry Fitzgerald on Walworth Road, Portobello, Dublin

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.
1940	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
1949	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:

Radio appearances

Year	Program	Episode/source
1952	Lux Radio Theatre	Top o' the Morning^[5]

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
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External links

Barry Fitzgerald at the Internet Movie Database
Barry Fitzgerald at the Internet Broadway Database
The Long Voyage HomePhotos of Barry Fitzgerald in by Ned Scott

Awards for Barry Fitzgerald

Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor

1936–1950	Walter Brennan (1936) Joseph Schildkraut (1937) Walter Brennan (1938) Thomas Mitchell (1939) Walter Brennan (1940) 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)

1951–1975	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) George Chakiris (1961) Ed Begley (1962) Melvyn Douglas (1963) Peter Ustinov (1964) Martin Balsam (1965) Walter Matthau (1966) George Kennedy (1967) Jack Albertson (1968) Gig Young (1969) John Mills (1970) Ben Johnson (1971) Joel Grey (1972) John Houseman (1973) Robert De Niro (1974) George Burns (1975)

1976–2000	Jason Robards (1976) Jason Robards (1977) Christopher Walken (1978) Melvyn Douglas (1979) Timothy Hutton (1980) John Gielgud (1981) Louis Gossett, Jr. (1982) Jack Nicholson (1983) Haing S. Ngor (1984) Don Ameche (1985) Michael Caine (1986) Sean Connery (1987) Kevin Kline (1988) Denzel Washington (1989) Joe Pesci (1990) Jack Palance (1991) Gene Hackman (1992) Tommy Lee Jones (1993) Martin Landau (1994) Kevin Spacey (1995) Cuba Gooding, Jr. (1996) Robin Williams (1997) James Coburn (1998) Michael Caine (1999) Benicio del Toro (2000)

2001–present	Jim Broadbent (2001) Chris Cooper (2002) Tim Robbins (2003) Morgan Freeman (2004) George Clooney (2005) Alan Arkin (2006) Javier Bardem (2007) Heath Ledger (2008) Christoph Waltz (2009) Christian Bale (2010) Christopher Plummer (2011) Christoph Waltz (2012) Jared Leto (2013) J. K. Simmons (2014)

Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor – Motion Picture

1943–1960	Akim Tamiroff (1943) Barry Fitzgerald (1944) J. Carrol Naish (1945) Clifton Webb (1946) Edmund Gwenn (1947) Walter Huston (1948) James Whitmore (1949) Edmund Gwenn (1950) Peter Ustinov (1951) Millard Mitchell (1952) Frank Sinatra (1953) Edmond O'Brien (1954) Arthur Kennedy (1955) Earl Holliman (1956) Red Buttons (1957) Burl Ives (1958) Stephen Boyd (1959) Sal Mineo (1960)

1961–1980	George Chakiris (1961) Omar Sharif (1962) John Huston (1963) Edmond O'Brien (1964) Oskar Werner (1965) Richard Attenborough (1966) Richard Attenborough (1967) Daniel Massey (1968) Gig Young (1969) John Mills (1970) Ben Johnson (1971) Joel Grey (1972) John Houseman (1973) Fred Astaire (1974) Richard Benjamin (1975) Laurence Olivier (1976) Peter Firth (1977) John Hurt (1978) Melvyn Douglas/Robert Duvall (1979) Timothy Hutton (1980)

1981–2000	John Gielgud (1981) Louis Gossett, Jr. (1982) Jack Nicholson (1983) Haing S. Ngor (1984) Klaus Maria Brandauer (1985) Tom Berenger (1986) Sean Connery (1987) Martin Landau (1988) Denzel Washington (1989) Bruce Davison (1990) Jack Palance (1991) Gene Hackman (1992) Tommy Lee Jones (1993) Martin Landau (1994) Brad Pitt (1995) Edward Norton (1996) Burt Reynolds (1997) Ed Harris (1998) Tom Cruise (1999) Benicio del Toro (2000)

2001–present	Jim Broadbent (2001) Chris Cooper (2002) Tim Robbins (2003) Clive Owen (2004) George Clooney (2005) Eddie Murphy (2006) Javier Bardem (2007) Heath Ledger (2008) Christoph Waltz (2009) Christian Bale (2010) Christopher Plummer (2011) Christoph Waltz (2012) Jared Leto (2013) J. K. Simmons (2014)

New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Actor

1935–1950	Charles Laughton (1935) Walter Huston (1936) Paul Muni (1937) James Cagney (1938) James Stewart (1939) Charlie Chaplin (1940) Gary Cooper (1941) James Cagney (1942) Paul Lukas (1943) Barry Fitzgerald (1944) Ray Milland (1945) Laurence Olivier (1946) William Powell (1947) Laurence Olivier (1948) Broderick Crawford (1949) Gregory Peck (1950)

1951–1975	Arthur Kennedy (1951) Ralph Richardson (1952) Burt Lancaster (1953) Marlon Brando (1954) Ernest Borgnine (1955) Kirk Douglas (1956) Alec Guinness (1957) David Niven (1958) James Stewart (1959) Burt Lancaster (1960) Maximilian Schell (1961) No Award (1962) Albert Finney (1963) Rex Harrison (1964) Oskar Werner (1965) Paul Scofield (1966) Rod Steiger (1967) Alan Arkin (1968) Jon Voight (1969) George C. Scott (1970) Gene Hackman (1971) Laurence Olivier (1972) Marlon Brando (1973) Jack Nicholson (1974) Jack Nicholson (1975)

1976–2000	Robert De Niro (1976) John Gielgud (1977) Jon Voight (1978) Dustin Hoffman (1979) Robert De Niro (1980) Burt Lancaster (1981) Ben Kingsley (1982) Robert Duvall (1983) Steve Martin (1984) Jack Nicholson (1985) Bob Hoskins (1986) Jack Nicholson (1987) Jeremy Irons (1988) Daniel Day-Lewis (1989) Robert De Niro (1990) Anthony Hopkins (1991) Denzel Washington (1992) David Thewlis (1993) Paul Newman (1994) Nicolas Cage (1995) Geoffrey Rush (1996) Peter Fonda (1997) Nick Nolte (1998) Richard Farnsworth (1999) Tom Hanks (2000)

2001–present	Tom Wilkinson (2001) Daniel Day-Lewis (2002) Bill Murray (2003) Paul Giamatti (2004) Heath Ledger (2005) Forest Whitaker (2006) Daniel Day-Lewis (2007) Sean Penn (2008) George Clooney (2009) Colin Firth (2010) Brad Pitt (2011) Daniel Day-Lewis (2012) Robert Redford (2013) Timothy Spall (2014)

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