Biography
William Joseph Shields, known professionally as Barry Fitzgerald, was an Irish stage, film, and television actor. In a career spanning almost forty years, he appeared in such notable films as Bringing Up Baby (1938), The Long Voyage Home (1940), How Green Was My Valley (1941), The Sea Wolf (1941), Going My Way (1944), None but the Lonely Heart (1944), and The Quiet Man (1952). For Going My Way, he won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor and was simultaneously nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor for the same performance. In 2020, he was listed at number 11 on The Irish Times list of Ireland's greatest film actors.
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Awards & recognition
- Academy Award — Best Supporting Actor · 1945
- star on Hollywood Walk of Fame
- Academy Award — Best Supporting Actor · 1945 · nominated
- Academy Award — Best Actor · 1945 · nominated
Filmography27 titles
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
Bringing Up Baby
The Quiet Man
How Green Was My Valley
The Catered Affair
The Naked City
The Sea Wolf
What's My Line?
And Then There Were None
Welcome Stranger
The Ed Sullivan Show
California
The Dawn Patrol
Lux Video Theatre
Going My Way
Silver City
The Long Voyage Home
Marie Antoinette
Union Station
None But the Lonely Heart
The Story of Seabiscuit
Tarzan's Secret Treasure
The Saint Strikes Back
The Plough and the Stars
The Stork Club
Incendiary Blonde
Juno and the Paycock