Was listed at number 11 on The Irish Times list of Ireland's greatest film actors
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Barry Fitzgerald
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…
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entertainment · Irish actor (1888–1961) · stage actor · film actor · actor · also Barry Fitzgerald, William Joseph Shields, Fitzgerald
Born 10 March 1888 · Died 14 January 1961 · Q290666
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1961· 1 entry
Died 1961-01-14.
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1959· 1 entry
Where he lived at 2 Seafield Ave, Monkstown
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1945· 1 entry
Awarded Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for Going My Way (1945).
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1944· 1 entry
By John Farrow, but not released until 1946
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1934· 1 entry
To tour a series of plays in repertory around the country
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1932· 1 entry
Fitzgerald travelled to the United States with the Abbey Players to appear in Things That Are Caesar's and The Far-off Hills
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1926· 1 entry
Fitzgerald was in The Would-Be Gentleman
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1924· 1 entry
Fitzgerald's salary at the Abbey was £2/10 a week
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1919· 1 entry
When he was in The Dragon by Lady Gregory
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1888· 1 entry
Born 1888-03-10.
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